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HHH_is_the_game posted...

Can you explain then, why people insist on chanting the phrase that is used this way by Hamas, and not any other slogan in the world? Like ok, sure, that is what it means, but if there is this confusion, why are they insisting on this phrase defiantly?

Have you ever been to one of these protests? Or even watched videos of one? They chant so many other slogans in addition to this one. Ceasefire now, Free Palestine, No Justice, No Peace, etc.

If you search online, you'll see pro-Israel groups making the same arguments that each and every one of these phrases is identical to knowing calls for genocide and cannot be understood any other way. Even Free Palestine. Because it's not actually about any specific language, it's about the underlying political position. The most vehemently pro-Israel people are heavily invested in poising the well on ANY language used to express desire for Palestinian freedom. They want it to be impossible to express that idea without it being considered antisemitic. They generate the "confusion" then use the "confusion" to say the idea shouldn't be expressed. Some others end up doing the same thing out of fear and paranoia.

Right wingers do this all the time and this is no different. They themselves make something "controversial" and then say that controversial thing is radioactive and should be banned from public life/discussion. They did it with BLM, they do it with LGBT people, and this is another version of that.