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In 6 hours it will be illegal to say "I support Palestine Action" in the UK, with a sentence of up to 14 years in prison. (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] 161 points 1 year ago* (10 children)

The harder they push their pro-Israel agenda, the more anti-Israel everyone is going to get.

You can't bully us into supporting a genocidal regime.

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  • [–] 54 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    My fucking brain is so fried.

    Both my parents were in World War II. They fought against fascism. I was brought up to feel for what happened to the Jews during that war. Now all I see is that they seem to be being worse than the actual Nazis.

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  • [–] 56 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Israel =/= the “Jews”.

    Israel’s founders were actually very prejudiced against Jews that survived the holocaust. And much more against the ones that didn’t actually…

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Louder for the people in the back!

    Zionists = religious nationalists / colonialists / fascists

    Anti-zionists = anti-all-of-the-above

    The Jewish ethnic/religious part is completely irrelevant. There are many thousands of non-jews who support Israel's genocide, as evidenced by this batshit draconian illegitimate law. The UK/USA likely created Israel solely to destabilize the region and have an ally in the middle of the oil they needed. Within the next decade they then overthrew Irans democratically elected socialist leader because he wanted to expel British Petroleum and nationalise production (like Norway has been doing for decades).

    If you just hate jews you're some flavor of fascist or religious nationalist, so no better than zionists or any of the criminals who created this mess.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Do not conflate Jewish people with Israel

    That is a very important distinction

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I guess I am ignorant in that respect. When I was taught back in the 60’s it was taught as the Jewish people and all dissidents, disabled and whoever else the nazi’s wanted out of the way.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    I said what I did because in today's world the labeling matters between Jewish people and zionists. Not because of anything that happened in WWII, but rather because you can condemn what the people in Israel are doing in Palestine and it has nothing to do with their faith.

    However, there are people who will call you anti semetic for doing that and it's just not true.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    I have a feeling they can. If all discourse over social media is anti Palestine and no one can refute it, I give it 10 years max before it would just be a frothing hate for Palestinians with a significant amount of the population.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago*

    They are already trying to do this and failing miserably at it. Censorship itself is an admission of guilt and is something that people are really starting to understand. That's basically the point of my original comment: the harder they try to stop dissent, the more guilty they look.

    Information can also be spread offline.

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