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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.
Feddit.org's explanation for this situation seems to fit into a few common variations:
- They accept both pro- and anti-Zionist members, so it's not proof of a bias.
- They [choose to] comply [in advance] with strict German / Swiss / Austrian laws regarding [overly broad] "antisemitic" language, or they might get in trouble.
- Calling for the destruction of Israel must obviously mean you want to kill every last man, woman and child, rather than simply wanting to overthrow Netanyahu's genocidal fascist regime. Because [bad faith] reasons.
- Lots of Euros (and Germans specifically) are pro-Zionist, so they feel like they have to accommodate this view.
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. As such, I am calling for feddit.org to:
- Explicitly prohibit pro-Zionist accounts from joining.
- Take measures to resolve their claimed legal issues, e.g., moving their server location to a less regulated jurisdiction, and ensuring that admin accounts remain anonymous regarding their location.
- Stop referring to folks who call for "Death to Israel" or similar as though they are the terrorists or violent extremists. The Zionist Israeli settlers, the murderous IDF rapists, and the entirety of the Israeli government are clearly the violent ethnostate extremists we should be worried about, not the Palestinians in Gaza who are fighting for their lives every single day against completely disproportionate levels of Zionist violence.
More context
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.
I've also pulled out some choice morsels from the modlog to illustrate the sort of thing we are talking about:
This one says it all... mrdown@lemmy.world being banned for calling out feddit.org users for being Zionist apologists. It's apparently "xenophobic" to state a few hard truths.
If you have had similar experiences on feddit.org, please feel free to share in the comments.
Voting instructions
I am proposing to ban the following communities from feddit.org, which seem to be the most problematic communities in terms of hosting pro-Zionist posts/comments:
- https://feddit.org/c/YUROP
- https://feddit.org/c/europe
- https://feddit.org/c/buyfromeu
- https://feddit.org/c/europa
- https://feddit.org/c/dach
- https://feddit.org/c/deutschland
- https://feddit.org/c/germany
Upvote this post if you want dbzer0 / anarchist nexus to ban these communities.
Downvote this post if you'd prefer not to ban these communities.
Note 1: Votes from external instances do not count, unless one of our admins has vouched for you.
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.
Note 3: Although I don't really expect this to happen, if feddit.org agrees to make policy changes to address these issues then we are willing to reassess the situation.
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Just want to point out that in my experience, outside Germans the "Euro" public are generally against what Israel has been doing in Palestine. Those more politically aware who know what that is are against Zionism explicitly.
The exception is of course for the Far-Right types who, of course, love the whole white-colonialist thing.
IMHO:
Germany has massive issues with still holding hard to the mental framework from the "good old days" were people are just deemed members of etnic groups based on things they were born with, and are treated above all based on the ethnic group they "belong to", rather than Modern Humanism were people's deserved treatment is based on their need and their actions.
Because of this profoundly backwards Prejudiced and Racist foundational element of moral thinking widespread in German, it was a lot easier for the ethno-Fascist Zionists to subvert guilt in Germany into support for Zionism and the Zionist Genocide, as well as cultivating Islamophobia.
The same backwards moral fundational element also explains the ease of expansion of AfD and their ideology in Germany.
Not to say other countries in Europe don't have Prejudice, Racism or even support for 19th century style white-colonialism, just saying that Germany seems to have a far more insidious problem than most in that regards due to this specific foundational piece having been repeatedly reinforced in the broad political discourse in Germany even while in other countries in Europe openly singling out people's ethnicity and demanding ethnically-discriminatory treatment (either "positive" or negative) was frowned upon.
Just want to point out that I don't at all think all Germans are like this.
Not even close.
My point is that this kind of thinking is more widespread and normalized in Germany, were it's constantly pushed by the Press and Politicians of most colors (which is why even the Greens were pro-Israel during the worst of the Genocide in Gaza)
I live in germany. The stickers I see are "bring them back home", "never again" with some AI slop of a young redhead in prison looking at an old person through bars both in striped prison suits clearly an allusion to the jews murdered in the holocaust, FCK HMS and some other assorted pro-pissraeli ones. I don't think I have seen even one in support of Palestine. Ever. In the past years, it's always been like this. I am never giving germans the benefit of the doubt and I am born one. There is centuries worth of history to back me up on this. The whole denazification was a sham, Death to Israel includes Death to Germany. Morgenthau was right.
I don’t want to discount anything you’re saying since I think you’re super right. But I have seen a few stickers in support of Palestine in Germany. Very different from where I live though where almost every corner of every street has either graffiti or stickers in support of Palestine.
Ok yeah sorry i have seen some graffiti that's true. In migrant heavy areas. I don't want to give too much of my location away but the areas I regularly go to are populated by the gentrifying left. They're plastered in stickers but never pro-palestinian ones.
Makes sense! I just think it shows how repressed Palestinians and muslim migrants are in Germany. They are many but they can’t do anything without mass organizing because of the extremely zionist ‘justice’ system.
Found the genocide supporter ^
I really hope there's an implied /s there ...
What would you call that?
Something very different from "Death to Israelis Death to Germans".
You see wanting the end of a specific power and political structure is completelly different from wanting death for the people who live under it. At times desiring the end of a nation is actually desiring less death for the people living under its yoke, with the desire for Death To Israel being a perfect example of it given that nation's occupation of and actions in Palestine.
(So it's pretty "funny" that you're parroting the Zionist propaganda of trying to misportray a desire for less death of actual human beings expressed as a desire for the end of the political structures that support such death, as being a desire for more death).
Granted, the difference between "Nation" and "People Living In A Nation" is completelly lost in the minds of Nationalists (who are mainly Fascists and proto-Fascists) who also happen to be some of the most Genocide-loving types around.
What do you think they would mean if people said “Death to Rhodesia” or “Death to the 3rd Reich” if they were still around? What do you think people mean by "Dubul' ibhunu"?
A very wholesome chant with wonderful sentiments
Death to ameriKKa, Death to Germany, Death to piSSreal, Unlimited Hwasong-19 ICBMs upon the Axis of Satan