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Fenriswolf posted...

Kindly stop "both siding" rival protesters. A minority of pro-Palestine protesters with bad signs cannot be compared to violent Zionists defending genocide and attacking those that dare to disagree with them. That's like saying BLM protesters are comparable to 1/6 insurrectionists because there were some black nationalists supporting the former, despite the fact that their causes are polar opposites.

Then again, didn't claim that the "from the river to the sea" slogan is antisemitic?

Um...yes, a minority of Pro Palestinians using genocidal rhetoric can be compared to a minority of pro Israel people getting violent about genocide IMO. Calling for Jewish deaths (literally praising Hamas and saying that 10/7 is going to happen 1000 times) and harassing Jewish students to the point that a rabbi was advising them to go home because they were not safe, is comparable to the vile actions by the Israel protesters. 1/6 Insurrectionists were not responding to something like 10/7 so it's a pretty different situation. BLM protesters were not throwing threats at a vulnerable minority population.

I genuinely believe most people are completely sincere in their protests and are looking for peace and for Palestinians to be free from oppression, and for Israeli's brutal war crimes to stop.

But there is also an element of something more sinister standing beside them. And the refusal of the left to acknowledge the problem of anti-semitism co-opting their protests is pretty scary to Jewish people.

Yes, I brought up how that slogan invokes genocide against Israelis and Jews because of its usage by Hamas, and instead of people acknowledging that, they continued to insist on using the phrase, said they don't care about Jewish fee fees, and that a new anti-semite is born every day Israel continues to be evil.

Then we are supposed to not be afraid that there is anti-semitism in these protests?

There is so much propaganda on both sides it's crazy and everybody wants to prove the other side is the evil one. This whole situation is a mess....there are probably people critical of Israel's actions that also don't like the protests because they feel like it is anti-semitic and I do think that more could be done to show that that is not the case, and that the enemy is the Israeli government, not Jewish people or Israeli citizens