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I feel like it's okay to add it back, I don't even know what the exact struggle session was to begin with, but anyone who argues for that position now should be banned.
There wasn't really a struggle session over it, just a "yeah let's not give away easy ammunition to call us antisemites" in the immediate aftermath of Oct 7th. Nobody really thought it was antisemitism to burn the Israeli flag but that anything involving the star of david is incredibly easy propaganda for zionists to claim antisemitism regardless of the reality.
The star of david and the swastika are both religious symbols.
To enforce this rule means that they should also enforce a rule against burning the nazi flag.
Otherwise it's just jewish exceptionalism.
So is a cross but you probably wouldnt burn one cause of the implications
I would burn a Kkkristian flag with a cross on it in an instant and I don't think any black person would look at that happening at a demonstration and assume "kkk". The KKK cross burning was a very specific ritual involving construction of and burning of a physical cross standing by itself either in a yard or near people as a threat or at the center of their ritual gatherings. Backwards patriachal religions have no right to exist nor their symbols of the mythology and superstition any special right to protection when those symbols are at the front phalanxes of the hordes of hate and genocide.
This is just bad faith hasbara tier garbage. Like saying I want to knife Christian children because I'd burn or shoot up a Nazi belt with "god with us' on it.
Fuck using religions as shields. Religious fascists don't get it both ways, they don't get to both use it, be recognized for it, receive protections for it being them and them being it and have the casual/passive support of a majority (last I checked) of the adherents of it in the west yet somehow not owners of it and somehow protected from feeling "unsafe" by incidentally destroying the symbol of their movement which they NOT I, not people against it, put on there (on the flag) as a deliberate shield to be used in just this way. And it's shameful it works and you lean right into their troll-faced attempts at making anti-semitism hatred of pissrael.
Don't want it burned? Make those zionist fuckers take it off their fucking flag. Not our fucking job. Not our choice. Don't blame us.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_George's_Cross
I think these emojis should stay, just for the record, but a significant number of European flags have Christian symbols on them.
oh it was and continued to be a constant struggle session. Dozens of comments have been removed for it, users banned and threads locked
:isreal-cool: is right up there with incels in terms of how often they trigger struggle sessions. There seems to be at least one 150+ comment thread about it every month or two.
(But looking down)
There was absolutely a struggle session and users got banned when it went down. It's just so long that a lot of people forget it happened. And the argument against having the emoji wasn't just that it could be antisemtic, it was also that it made some users uncomfortable. It's also how we got rid of the :saudicool: emoji when someone rightly pointed out what that Arabic text on the KSA flag is.
Using indigenous Hawaiian Israel Kamakawiwoʻole to represent the occupation is one of the grossest fucking things on this site and whoever signed off on that change should fucking apologize.
Burning a genocidal flag emoji is too far but disrespecting an indigenous activist is fair game
Never change, whites of hexbear
It's been called out multiple times but still stands. It pisses me off a lot. It also changes the meaning of that emoji compared to all of the other "cool" emojis.
The mods can't just find a random white dude named Israel but have to pick on some Hawaiian instead.