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ended up designing my own based on the stern gang's symbol 
other hexbear jews lmk if I'm having a brainfart (if so I'll backtrack to blank white with blue bars) but I don't think this specific symbol is very linked to anything but zionism
Never again means Gaza is ours and west bank is ours.
Israeli army is a branch within the IDF, so it's same difference. it's just snappier 
this is the Israeli army flag, there's a sort of abstract star-of-david-ish shape in the middle, kinda? not the same as the IDF flag, which is green and yellow
It’s abstracted enough. Genuinely didn’t even notice till you pointed it out
If someone else who has access to the emotes tab agrees that I have too much of a conflict-of-interest here and wants to personally make it and add it, then I’ll argue my case and grit my teeth, even though I feel uncomfortable about it and think it invites in some issues that I’d rather not have to second-guess about. I’m not going to do it myself. Sorry.
We would, yes. I'm an anti-Zionist, of course. In no way do I support Israel. There's just a line for me in regards to adding a pictographic representation of burning the Star of David that I'm viscerally uncomfortable crossing. If another person who can access the emotes tab decides to go over my head because this is that much of a conflict-of-interest, then I'll plead my case and then grit my teeth about it, I guess. As the self-appointed emote czar, though, I'm not personally going to add it.
I've added other anti-Zionist emotes here: 
off the top of my head.
This might be my suburbanite americracker brain showing, but it's really my only major line-in-the-sand. Sorry.
I'll add as many anti-Israel emotes as y'all and I can come up with except the one where we're toeing the line into, and I hate to use this phrase as a cracker but I don't know how else to describe it, generational trauma. I know the holocaust has been cynically weaponized by this freak fascist ethnostate to do unspeakable horror, but it's innately uncomfortable even as part of the anti-Zionist diaspora to make something like this. It fucking sucks, and I'm sorry, but that's why I scoured for any other representation of Israel that doesn't invoke Judaism as a whole.
Not adding a burning the Star of David emote, apologies, but that's the line I draw, being Jewish. I know that's not the intent stated, but it still is as such. I'm not trying to say that Israel's use of it is in any way legitimate, nor that I disagree that Israel is a genocidal apartheid state that deserves 1000 October 7ths for all the terror they wrought, but it just makes me viscerally uncomfortable to have an emote depicting that.