• GrackleBirb@lemmy.ca
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    14 hours ago

    There are plenty of Israeli-Canadians who don’t support Bibi - Israelis by default if they reach the age of majority in Israel have to serve in the IDF. Many emigrate as soon as they can. Implying that all of these people are “war criminals” is just thinly veiled antisemitism. They can’t fix that they were born in Israel (their country and likely their parents’ country at this point) nor do most people have the crazy in them to deny national service requirements - many of those mandatory service roles are bullshit teaching in language schools or repairing roads they aren’t all out on the front lines killing people. More importantly many of them have left Israel specifically to get away from that conflict - so sorry if you have some specific Zionists to call out please do so but implying that the people who opened an Israeli restaurant or that type of thing are mass murderers is insane or that any Canadian of Israeli background who served in the IDF is a mass murderer is also insane - if they were over the age of 17 they had no choice. Many regret it and have very conflicted feelings about that. Don’t be that antisemitic asshole in his rainbow keffiyet blasting Kneecap in his mom’s basement in Oakville who has never walked a day in any of these people’s shoes - Israeli or Palestinian.

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      antisemitism

      itself is a form of discrimination, because it assumes jewish people are more sensitive to prejudice than any other group.

      Semitic people are the ones living in the levant right now u lack wit, ergo Israel and the Jewish diaspora are the biggest anti semites in history.

      stop trying to brain wash people.

      • GrackleBirb@lemmy.ca
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        14 hours ago

        You can call it hating Jewish people, hating Israeli Jewish people, whatever

        Hating a group of people who have very little in common other than a religion or place of birth is still hate.

        Not all Israelis are Palestinian killers - 20% of Israeli citizens are ethnically Palestinian and have served in the IDF.

        Netanyahu and his policies are horrible but vilifying people solely for being Israeli Jews who have served is painting people with a very broad and ignorant brush especially coming from a Caucasian Canadian with no connection to this region of the world