• Billy@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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    5 months ago

    How is the link tenuous?
    You could write the same thing about neo-nazi violence.
    There’s a clear issue here.

    The reality is that this is a part of a global spike of cases against Jews since the 7th of October, who are targeted because they are Jews.
    It could’ve been someone else. Another Jew. Like the other French Jewish woman who was raped because she’s a Jew and was done as “revenge” in the eyes of the perpetrator.

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      5 months ago

      There is a terrible trend of people blaming Jewish people overall for what Israel is doing – and ironically, some of Israel’s sharpest critics are Jewish.

      Some people are incapable of realizing that Jewish people are not the same as Israel, and in doing so, they play right into Netanyahu’s hand. Antisemitism is completely separate from criticism of Israel, but Netanyahu would love for people to believe it’s one and the same.

      People who want revenge against Jews in the West for what Israel’s doing are no different than those who interned the Japanese in WW2 or demonized all Muslims after 9/11. It’s collective punishment and it’s wrong.

      • Billy@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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        5 months ago

        Yeap. Although this “trend” isn’t very new.
        Antisemites calling all Jews, Zionists, was done from even before the founding of the state of Israel. One example from before its founding, is of Muhammad Rashid Rida.

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      They used a current world event as an excuse for an atrocity that they might well have found a different excuse for otherwise.

      They could have chosen any Jewish person and any “punishment” but they chose her, and that “punishment”. That’s because they wanted to mete out that “punishment” in particular. They’re disgusting.

      And yes, that’s true of neo-Nazi violence too. The violent ones are usually nutters spoiling for a fight, or worse. The prejudices they hold are merely their excuse for it.