What’s funny is that the last time a nation which claimed to represent a whole etnicity, which was specifically targetting and mass murdering people of another etnicity with such intensity, inhumanity and extreme racist prejudice, and their leader would when their actions were criticized say that it was an insult to the etnicity he claimed to represent, the time was the late 1930s, the etnicity was the Arian Race, the nation was Germany and the leader was called Adolph Hitler.
It kinda looks a lot like the ones who look like a “duck”, walk like a “duck” and quack like a “duck” - hence why most people are saying they’re “ducks” - are Netanyahu and his countrymen.
Without delving into this event I’m going to take a wild guess and say that this is the common trope of framing something that is Anti-Netanyahu or Anti-Israeli or Anti-Zionism (Read: Far-Right Nationalism) or Pro-Civilian — and associate it with antisemitism. Let me edit upon review to see if I can confirm this hypothesis.
Times of Israel of course has a convenient anonymous student referring to chants that are curiously not captured on video/audio. If someone has something, then do let me know. I suspect like most things this is a matter of colorizing the protest by the few bad apples who, according to an AP article, were not even students. So you may have actual antisemites trying to hijack the movement; or you might have pro-Israelis trying to tarnish the protest by painting it in a bad light.
Either way, the protests should be judged by the overwhelming narrative projected by the mass at large.
I didn’t think it would ever be possible but Israel managed to completely take the bite out of the word “antisemitism” and comparisons to “Nazi Germany”.
Its like the word woke. At this point I can only understand it if I know who’s saying it. Anyone related to the IDF? Then antisemetic just means anti genocide.
At this point I can only understand it if I know who’s saying it.
That is the most frustrating thing about discussion these days. Everyone using the same words but speaking an entirely different language.
When you don’t agree on the definitions of words anymore, or you don’t hold yourself to using them in good faith, then you take discussion off the table. You’re no longer debating; now you are just arguing. It’s one step away from violence.
Comintern is a word that can be uttered almost without taking thought, whereas Communist International is a phrase over which one is obliged to linger at least momentarily… This accounted not only for the habit of abbreviating whenever possible, but also for the almost exaggerated care that was taken to make every word easily pronounceable.
Because we’re inadvertently building our newspeak, but to wield against the opposition. ‘Woke’ ‘chud’ ‘groomer’ ‘hippie’ lets you hang a label on today’s target of vitriol without understanding. Not understanding the theory, the origins, background, context, etc - we apply the label, the bad person gets chided, now move on to next outrage.
This is the new tactic for the dictators, just call <insert literally anything> a nazi. The Ukrainians, the protestors, my dog, all nazi’s. Projection at its greatest.
Someone says look in the mirror in reference to Bibi calling everyone Nazis… (Edit: apparently telling Bibi to look in the mirror is also a punishable offense)
I make joke (can’t spell Ashkenazi). Directly to jail.
World ends.
BTW. I’ve long supported Jewish people and defended them against harassment. On and offline. I’ve talked so many people off the cliff of anti Jewish hate. Explained why the “families” and the banks and etc are bullshit conspiracies.
Lemme guess, you make random guesses about people based on a single 4 word response.
I mean, the mods clearly disagreed as does the actual Ashkenazi Jew you’re talking to. It’s a bit paternalistic of you to tell me what I should find offensive in regards to what you say about my ethnicity.
So, you can say “look in the mirror” when Bibi calls students Nazis (effectively calling Jews Nazis), but I can’t comment - which you cannot even tell my intent - that was calling you out for YOUR ANTISEMITIC COMMENT WHICH WAS REMOVED BY THE MODS.
The appropriate, historically accurate comparison is to student protests against South African apartheid and he knows it. Reportedly, those very protests grew into the strong boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement that ended apartheid in South Africa. This is what he fears and what corporate media is actively trying to prevent.
Only people with no information on either the actual history or current situation are going to fall for this baseless slander. Sadly there are probably still a number of those around.
I was only a kid at the time, so I didn’t understand the whole thing. I thought the shantytown on the campus in my town looked cool and I wanted to live there.