adONis@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoNew German citizens required to affirm Israel's right to existwww.middleeasteye.netexternal-linkmessage-square96fedilinkarrow-up1110arrow-down17
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minus-squareLinkerbaan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12arrow-down6·edit-21 year agoWhat does israel have to do with anti-semitsm? You keep intentionally conflating Judaism and Zionism after been corrected. Furthermore you don’t appear to know the history of israel. Zionists had been colonizing Palestine years before Hitler came to power.
minus-squareFranconian_Nomad@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down12·1 year agoYou got me. I do. I know there is a difference, but in my experience it rarely matters.
minus-squareLinkerbaan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14arrow-down3·1 year agoBut that’s the point. Recognizing israel is absolutely irrelevant to anti-semitism. If anything israel using Judaism as a shield for their war crimes is the biggest cause of anti-semitism. So this move by the German government does not combat anti-semitism. It creates anti-semitism by specifically calling israel a “Jewish” state.
minus-squareFranconian_Nomad@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down5·1 year agoI disagree with you.
minus-squareSkyezOpen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoIt’s not illegal to be wrong on the internet, but don’t feel compelled to keep doing so.
What does israel have to do with anti-semitsm?
You keep intentionally conflating Judaism and Zionism after been corrected.
Furthermore you don’t appear to know the history of israel. Zionists had been colonizing Palestine years before Hitler came to power.
You got me. I do. I know there is a difference, but in my experience it rarely matters.
But that’s the point. Recognizing israel is absolutely irrelevant to anti-semitism.
If anything israel using Judaism as a shield for their war crimes is the biggest cause of anti-semitism.
So this move by the German government does not combat anti-semitism. It creates anti-semitism by specifically calling israel a “Jewish” state.
I disagree with you.
It’s not illegal to be wrong on the internet, but don’t feel compelled to keep doing so.