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BewmHedshot posted...

Oh no the Jewish fee fees

This is....extremely gross.

CoyoteTheGreat posted...

Being Jewish =/= being Israeli or supporting Israel

Yes, I know this. But I highly doubt even the most anti-Israel Jews, want to see Israel and its people exterminated?

Let's put it this way. Using "All lives matter" on its own is a nice statement. But in the context of BLM it is offensive because of what it implies. How many were arguing for the fact that it's ok to say All Lives Matter because it doesn't mean what you think it means? People on the left are usually quite sensitive to dogwhistles, and making sure to be careful in the phrasing you use.

Calling for intifada for example just means a call for "struggle" and has little to do with violence (first intifada). But others hear it and think of the second intifada which consisted of large amounts of civilian violence and deaths.

This is where there is some hypocricy in my opinion. If the right was invoking things like this, the left would rightfully skewer them.

Because whether or not there is innocent intention it is a very loaded phrase.

In this case "From the river to the sea" appears multiple times in the Hamas charter, a charter that also called for literally extermination of all the world's Jews. So it's hard not to associate the two. To a Jewish person, it is not about being pro-Israel or anti-Israel, its feeling like they are fighting genocide by invoking phrases that imply literally genocide. So really, neither should be ok.

BOTH sides of the protest, pro or anti Israel, need to remain sensitive to the other.