DarthJon

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[–] DarthJon@lemmy.world -1 points 1 week ago

The video opens with the claim that police visited her because of her social media posts that were critical of Israel.

When you finally get to the point where she lets the officers speak, they reveal that they are there on complaints of "unwanted messages to specific lawyers," to which she responds, "Nobody told me not to message them."

So clearly the issue was that she was sending problematic messages directly to people, and those messages were concerning enough to warrant a visit from the police. They would not waste their time showing up at someone's house like this unless there was sufficient cause to open an investigation.

[–] DarthJon@lemmy.world -4 points 1 week ago (9 children)

Typical. "This person doesn't agree with my opinion so we can't have a conversation."

The ICJ has not ruled on the genocide accusation. Which, by the way, was brought by a country with a strong anti-Israel bias a month after entertaining Hamas leaders as visiting diplomats. And to pre-empt your response, no the ICJ did not say that genocide is plausible. The former head of the ICJ clarified herself that what they actually ruled was that it is plausible that Palestinian rights to be protected from genocide have been engaged, which is a fancy way of saying that the ICJ has jurisdiction to hear the case.

Did you know that children are the largest victim population in literally every major war in history? Do you know how many children died in WWII? If you don't want children to die in war, don't start wars.

[–] DarthJon@lemmy.world -4 points 1 week ago (11 children)
  1. Israel is not committing genocide. Calling it a genocide is extremely disrespectful to people who have, you know, actually suffered genocides.

  2. I haven't met a single Jew ever in my life that thinks, "Israel is perfect and everything they do is right and every single government policy is right." Perhaps you remember the large protests that were taking place before Oct 7 regarding judicial reform. "Standing with Israel" simply means "supporting Israel's right to defend itself against genocidal enemies," or perhaps more simply, "supporting Israel's right to exist as a Jewish state." It means in a war between a liberal democratic country (however imperfect) and genocidal Jew-hating terrorists, taking the side of the former rather than the latter.

The reason why anti-Zionist Jews exist now is the same reason they existed before Israel was created. Because they live in privilege and safety, assimilated into left-wing circles, and they don't want to risk losing that. Anybody who proposes a single secular state is either naive, completely ignorant of history and the broader geopolitical context of the conflict, or just doesn't give a crap about Jewish well-being. Because Israel's enemies have made it very, very clear that they aren't interested in peaceful coexistence with Jews. Their objective is to destroy Israel, along with as many Jewish lives as possible, and return the land to its rightful place in the Muslim empire.

[–] DarthJon@lemmy.world -2 points 1 week ago

I would bet lots of money her posts didn't simply "criticize Israel"

[–] DarthJon@lemmy.world -1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I don't disagree it's a waste of police resources. But that's not the point. The point is the misleading propaganda that creates the false impression that the government is monitoring your social media posts and showing up at your house because you post something negative about Israel.

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