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AloeVera

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9. It's a losing game, isn't it?

Reply to Behind the Aegis (Reply #5)

Mon Jul 14, 2025, 02:50 PM

Jul 14

Don't push back = anti-semite by default

Push back = "Conflation!, guilty, anti-semite"!

That definition was set up as a lose-lose for human rights defenders of Palestinians on the left.

The corollary being that Israel can do whatever it wants and Palestinians are either abandoned or their defenders are smeared.

It's a good game for one side, sucks for the other. Best not played at all, as I found out.

I hope you alerted on those who defend anti-semitism from the right. I have not personally seen such posts.

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Jewish sites vandalized in Poland after Holocaust denial remarks by lawmaker [View all] Beastly Boy Jul 13 OP

Eisenhower wanted the Holocaust and death camps thoroughly documented because he knew there would be these evil scum who Norrrm Jul 13 #1

Note that some of the grafitti Mossfern Jul 13 #2

The "freedom fighters" are ignorant racists, and "Israel" is just an excuse. Beastly Boy Jul 13 #3

Anyone who defaces a Jewish tombstone with a swastika is a neo-Nazi anti-semite. AloeVera Jul 13 #4

Some do love to conflate the two. Behind the Aegis Jul 14 #5

It's a losing game, isn't it? AloeVera Jul 14 #9

I alert on anti-Semitism. PERIOD. Behind the Aegis Jul 14 #11

I would too. N/T. AloeVera Jul 14 #12

Unreal.. "The Parliamentarian, Grzegorz Braun Cha Jul 14 #6

Move on, nothing to see here. Abolishinist Jul 14 #7

What does your implied resemblance between Goebbels and Miller have to do with antisemitic vandalism in Poland? Beastly Boy Jul 14 #8

Holocaust deniers are literally like flat earthers. WarGamer Jul 14 #10

I'm seriously convinced that if you believe one conspiracy theory, no matter how far removed from reality it is... Initech Jul 14 #13

All of them? No. But you are right there are many who can't "east just one". (Pringles commercial) Behind the Aegis Jul 14 #14