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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Court heard that dawn broke on Monday, June 9, to reveal the words "FEED ME" painted in blood-red capital letters on a prominent wall of the holocaust monument along busy Wellington Street — also home to the Parliament Buildings and the Supreme Court.

Not antisemitic...

Just anti-genocide.

[–] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 0 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Choosing the holocaust memorial instead of something Israeli is anti semitic full stop. By doing this, your message is “Jews are responsible for what’s happening in Gaza”.

Jews around the world are not responsible for the atrocities that the Israeli government is doing. Your anger is at the political right in Israel. Did you blame all muslims when 9/11 happened? Or Chinese people during the pandemic? Same type of lazy and dangerous thinking.

If you’re anti genocide, please don’t push for another one.

Edit: if your response to the brutality of the Israeli government and their forces in Gaza is “the Jews are responsible for this” then mazel tov because you’re an extremist. Downvoting me won’t change that about yourself.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

You shouldnt insist your own opinions are facts, often the only thing you accomplish is people disregarding your opinions

Edit:

Not sure why we're editing instead of replying...

To clarify the original reply was a response to:

Choosing the holocaust memorial instead of something Israeli is anti semitic full stop.

That is an opinion.

But to address the edit; when people criticize method of protest, I refer to Doctor King:

First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action”; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a “more convenient season.” Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.