• Tatar_Nobility@lemmy.ml
    10·
    1 day ago

    The discontent is directed at the admin team which is incessantly equating criticism to Israel as antisemitism.

    I’m also pretty sure that feddit-bashing won’t improve the life of a single Palestinian one bit.

    We should always fight conflation between antisemitism and anti-zionism, the favorite tool of zionists to dissimulate their heinous acts in Palestine, Syria and Lebanon.

    • mech@feddit.org
      57·
      1 day ago

      You can criticize Israel on feddit, most of its users do.
      Calling for the destruction of Israel isn’t criticism. Same as writing “Death to America” wouldn’t be criticism of the Trump administration.
      And if you react to a comment removal by telling the mods to kill themselves or calling them Nazis, you’d get booted off any instance regardless of what the comment was about.

      • Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        8·
        17 hours ago

        Israel was founded 75 years ago as an explicitly settler-colonialist ethnostate project on the existing land of Palestine. This was wrong and unacceptable then and it continues to be so. The state of Israel should not exist. Death to Israel.

        • mech@feddit.org
          15·
          12 hours ago

          Criticism is something where the other side can say “you’re right, I’ll stop that and do better”.
          “Israel shouldn’t exist” isn’t criticism, the Israelis currently living there can’t just stop existing.

          • Walk_blesseD@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
            6·
            10 hours ago

            Why are you Kraut fuckers always so intent on conflating a population with a nation-state? Literal blood-and-soil nationalism. Dismantling Israel doesn’t necessarily have to mean the cessation of existence for all its current citizens, and it’s intellectually dishonest not to acknowledge that fact in this conversation.

            • Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone
              1·
              10 minutes ago

              Being charitable, I wonder if there is a language barrier thing happening here. I’m by no means fluent in German, but as far as I can tell, words like “death” and “dead” are far more versatile and used metaphorically far more often in English than in German.