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[–] agent_flounder@lemmy.world 57 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I guess a lot of people lost sight of the ball.

Antisemitism


or any bigotry


is bad. We dare not tolerate it because it can lead to persecution and genocide.

Somewhere along the way people took that to mean that any criticism of the actions of the Israeli government, including accusations of genocide, was anti-semitism and had to be quashed.

And yes, Hamas leadership is also awful, bigoted, and wanting to genocide, just like the Israeli government.

But the everyday Gaza inhabitant doesn't deserve to be killed. Nor does the everyday rest-of-Israel inhabitant deserve to be killed.