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FreepFryer

(7,077 posts)
3. Agreed. I'm over posts not identifying who the source (Hasan) is, nor why this clip matters.
Sat May 22, 2021, 02:45 AM
May 2021

It’s not edgy, or modern. It’s lazy.

FBaggins

(26,737 posts)
5. I wish Democrats would have nothing to do with such hatred
Sat May 22, 2021, 07:48 AM
May 2021

This level of antisemitism has almost completely undone the left in the UK. We don’t need it to infect the Democratic Party here.

It isn’t hard to find things worth criticizing Israel about... but this is not that

panfluteman

(2,065 posts)
6. Both the Israelis and the Palestinians are Semitic Peoples, By the Way...
Sat May 22, 2021, 09:12 AM
May 2021

They are both the sons / descendants of Shem, so they are both Shemitic, or Semitic. Nevertheless, Israel has misappropriated / hijacked the term to refer to specifically anti-them. This is actually internecine strife among two different semitic peoples.

FBaggins

(26,737 posts)
8. Ridiculously irrelevant spin
Sat May 22, 2021, 10:44 AM
May 2021

Almost certainly untrue in most cases... but also irrelevant. It amounts to nothing more than an implied claim that this specific form of racism needs a new label.

Antisemitism is racism toward Jews. The racist in the video above cannot pretend to not be antisemitic “because I’m pro Palestinian and they count too”.

So fine... label it something else if you like. Perhaps Nazi. Whatever the label - Democrats should have nothing to do with it. And should reject people like the guy in the video.

panfluteman

(2,065 posts)
7. I Have My Own Insight Into the Whole Israeli / Palestinian Situation...
Sat May 22, 2021, 09:20 AM
May 2021

It's that the abused become the abusers. Of course, the Jews were royally abused in the Nazi holocaust... now they are serial abusers of the Palestinians. I remember the first morning I was visiting the Arab quarter of Old Jerusalem. I went into a little hummus restaurant and an Arab man there spoke to me in his best English, saying, "The Israelis don't want peace!" Watching videos like this, I'm beginning to think that he was right.

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