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            You do realize a state can dissolve without literally everyone dying right? When East Germany and West Germany reunified the entire population of both countries didn’t die. When apartheid collapsed in South Africa all the settlers didn’t die.

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                “death to america” does refer to an end to the US empire- not the American people. I’ve talked with a fair number of Iranians who dislike their own government and Americas reign of terror around the world.

                From “the river to the sea” means an end to the apartheid government in occupied Palestine. It’s projection from the murderous settlers that a unified non-apartheid state would mean their own extermination- because that’s what they do to the undesirables in their unified state.

                The government isn’t the people.

                Marg bar Amrika

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                    Israel isn’t all Jews, doesn’t represent all Jews, and it’s legit antisemitic to say that it is.

                    You are the one sounding antisemitic.

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                    Comparing the hamas attack to the holocaust is like comparing an indigenous people’s raid of settler encampments to the holocaust. It is wildly inappropriate and ignores the difference in power between Jewish people under the nazis and Jewish people in a White Jewish ethnostate

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                Oh of fucking course it is going to be violent, unless the settler state caves. That is how anticolonial movements always go. But it is a lesser violence vs the continued violence its existence is predicated on.

                Please pick up wretched of the earth by Fanon at your local library, it is a very necessary read for westerners.

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                    It is antisemitic to equate calling for violence against Jewish settlers partaking in genocide to calling for violence against all Jews on the basis of being Jewish.

                    You’re being antisemitic. And if you aren’t Jewish, you need to shut the fuck up now. If you are, I’d be happy to explain why your position harms us as a whole.

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          I never said anything was antisemitic. I said that what you are saying is “Death to Israel”. And it seems that you agree.

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        That literally isn’t antisemitic, conflating antizionism and antisemitism is antisemitic

        -someone who’s Jewish side of the family was directly affected by the holocaust

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          Who said anything about antisemitic? The fact that multiple people replied to me about antisemitism is telling that YOU think it is antisemitic and need to defend yourself.

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            You’re talking about the original phrase that had Rashida accused of antisemitism, and given the context it seems like you think “from the river to the sea Palestine will be free” is antisemitic.

            Correct me if I’m wrong. I’m just very tired of dealing with zionist antisemites and may have jumped the gun.

            telling that YOU think it is antisemitic and need to defend yourself.

            The one thing you know about me is that I’ve said the Jewish side of my family was directly affected by the holocaust. Do you think this is appropriate to say to me? If this was a real life interaction, would you say this outloud?

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              We all know what they meant, they can hedge if they’d like but I don’t think anyone is buying what they’re selling.

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        Conflating Israel with Jewish people is anti-semetic

        You’re just too deep in the sauce to realize that, anti-semite.

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          Where did I conflate Jews and Israel? Where did I say anything about antisemitism?

          Nice strawman, bro.

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            Do you have a problem with the elimination of a genocidal fascist state? If you’re not conflating Jews and Israel then I don’t see why you’d have an issue with the words “death to Israel” unless you support their fascism or their genocide.

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              lol. “Genocidal”. I’ve been loving reading all the international law analysis from people who couldn’t even get into law school.

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                So tell me, what do you call the bombardment, forced displacement, limiting of Water, removal of communication for everyone in the area, bombing of refugee came, hospitals, ambulances sent by red cross, etc etc Israel has been doing in Gaza?

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                  …not genocide? Go, read the legal definition of genocide, and show me the mens rea element. Compare it to the Armenian genocide. Compare it to the Holocaust. Compare it to what China is doing to the Uyghurs. People screaming genocide only make themselves look foolish right now.

                  War crimes? Possibly. Genocide?! No.

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                    Definition of Genocide from Oxford:

                    The deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular race or nation.

                    https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/25/middleeast/satellite-images-gaza-destruction/index.html

                    Does that look like targeted bombings to you? To me it like like they’re bombing anything and everything. And with the missiles they have you know they could pick out exact targets if they wanted to. (like that ambulance red cross told them was transporting critically injured before they bombed it)

                    Please tell me how them purposefully leveling a city is not a deliberate killing of a large group of people of a particular Nation. Or bombing the injured, cutting off their communication THEN telling them they have 24 hours to leave before soldiers march in and treat everyone there as Hamas members. Do you really not see genocidal intent?

                    Also legal definitions aren’t the end-all be-all. Legally a man could not rape his wife until the 90s. He force himself on her as much as he wanted and it was not rape. Does that mean wives were never raped? Think past laws and look at the situation, look at what Israel is doing, the words they’re using to justify it and how those words dehumanizing words are the same ones used by other groups before/during their genocides. They intend on killing Palestinians and are doing it en masse as the world stands by. They are committing a genocide and just because worse things have happened to other groups doesn’t mean the bad shit isn’t happening to this group.

                    Is a woman who was coerced into sex while drunk any less of a rape victim than the woman who was beaten an inch away from death during her rape? What about the wife who was raped by her husband in 1980 when the law didn’t recognize it?

                    They’re all rape

                    It’s all genocide

                    It’s all wrong