A few of our users have recently pointed out that a lot of the pro-Zionist accounts on the fediverse nowadays seem to come from the feddit.org instance.

But whatever the excuse happens to be, they need to do better imo. Israel is currently the most violent, fascist and genocidal nation state in the Middle East (if you exclude the US military bases there). And yet feddit.org seems to regard the Palestinians fighting against Israel’s ongoing illegal occupation of their land as the real terrorists. ....

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Our instance already voted to ban pro-Zionist accounts (see https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/60585441 for reference) and the rule that was implemented is here: Golden Rule #8.

As further context, you can find relevant comments and discussion in this post by a banned feddit admin in MoG (that fact they chose to post in MoG is in itself quite telling), and this post about their defederation from quokk.au over anti-semitism allegations has recently become active again. ...

Note 2: If you think feddit.org deserves a full instance ban instead, or have alternative suggestions, then please leave your comments below. If enough people think that’s the better option, then we’ll do that instead.

In the end the Post had around 70% of support by dbzer0 users, who in the comments also called for defederation.

Here is a Link to Dbzer0 instances tab https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/instances where if you go to blocked instances you can see fedddit.org is now defederated

i dont think feddit has made a post now, but when they do i will add it

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[–] 7101334@lemmy.world 11 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (2 children)

Obviously what is happening in Gaza is terrible and Israel needs to be condemned, but what they’re doing is still not on the same level of evil as Nazi Germany.

As someone with a relative who died in a Nazi death camp, I resoundingly disagree. The scale may be relatively smaller, given that they're attempting to steal a much smaller area of land for their Lebensraum, but the level of evil is the same.

Look into the story of Muhammed Bhar or Hind Rijab and tell me it's not. I'll tell you your soul is compromised.

[–] Azzu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

I absolutely agree with you, in fact I even said somewhere else in these comments that some of the stuff Israel is doing is on the same level or worse than what happened in Nazi Germany.

However, you said it literally yourself, it's not on the same scale (yet).

Also, if you read my original comment carefully, I'm personally not even agreeing with the way this issue is handled, in my opinion, go ahead, compare Israel to Nazis. My only goal was to create understanding, and show that no, feddit.org is not actually Zionist.

[–] Gladaed@feddit.org 0 points 16 hours ago

Not every land grab is lebensraum. Sure. Wars for territorial expansion are not intended to be legal. But you need more nuance.