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[–] SapphireSphinx@feddit.org 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

So what? Does the family have Israeli citizenship? If not, what is your argument? They might one day become Israelis so it's ok to attack them today?

And even if they are Israelis, how do you and the racists know what the families stance on the the matter is? Is a leftist Israeli that opposes his government and their action guilty just because he was born?

The assailants condemed them for their heritage, Because their heritage is all they knew about them. That is the textbook definition of racism.

[–] Mrkawfee@lemmy.world -5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

No of course it doesn't justify violence. My point is that unless they have explicitly renounced Zionism it is reasonable to assume that they support Israel.

Israel has completely and deliberately ensconced itself in Jewish identity such that religion and ideology are largely inseparable.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

it is reasonable to assume that they support Israel.

Okay two things:

  1. Even then, attacking people for what you assume they think is nothing short of mob terror and morally reprehensible. What evidence do you have of his wrongdoing?

  2. You have no idea if they did denounce Zionism previously. Maybe they did on social media or to their friends and family or whatever, or maybe they didn't to avoid backlash. You know nothing about this person except that they got attacked at a gas station for wearing a kippah and you're going on about Zionism. Like, take a look in the fucking mirror because what you're pushing is getting dangerously close to Jewish collective guilt. I have a burning and more than a little bloodthirsty hatred for Zionism and Zionists, but let's not get our shit mixed up okay? Just because the status quo is bad doesn't mean that a repeat of this would be good, so stop playing into Zionists' hand with this nonsense.

[–] Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

You make good points and I see you're arguing in good faith.

I'm just weary of Zionist propaganda that paints any attack on Jews as 1938 rebooted. Im thinking specifically of the football match with Maccabi thugs in Amsterdam last year that was spun by Western Corporate media as Kristallnacht 2.0.

Or the demonisation of Bob Vylan for chanting "death to the IDF"

Zionists love to weaponise these as evidence of a global antisemitism surge which helps to silence voices against the genocide and encourage Israel to literally get away with murder.