What kind of gathering against anti-Semitism invites anti-Semites?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.one/post/6811578

What kind of rally against anti-Semitism includes racist signs calling for more war, more bombings, and the end of not just Hamas but Palestine itself? Or as one sign held by a masked protester read, “From the river to the sea, Israel is all you will see.”

This is not to say that every single person in attendance was there to celebrate war. The reports of increasing anti-Semitism have many people understandably concerned. But the messaging was far less about anti-Semitism than about “finishing the job” in Gaza.

  • Rottcodd@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I hadn’t thought about it before, but this is a fairly obvious consequence of the Israeli propaganda machine’s ongoing efforts to conflate opposition to Israeli government policy with anti-semitism - some number of violent fuckwits are going to equate support for Palestinian genocide with pro-semitism.