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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[–] agentant@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Ok but you don't reject the Israeli State. Which was founded on a genocide. This is like saying you're anti-genocide but you support the US's right to exist.

[–] Alaknar@sopuli.xyz -1 points 10 hours ago

Ok but you don’t reject the Israeli State. Which was founded on a genocide

I disagree here.

Palestinians and Israelites lived in the region for - literally - thousands of years, but neither had a nation. The exact same resolution that established Israel, also established Palestine, and that happened after the "civil war" between them. It wasn't genocide, it was a ham-fisted attempt at stopping a genocide, because both parties wanted to eliminate the other.

Do I agree to all Israel's policies, including the occupation of West Bank and Gaza? Absolutely not. Do I agree that the way these two nations were established was correct? Absolutely not.

But this is what they got, and they need to learn to live with it. Just like Qatar did. Or Yemen. Or Saudi Arabia, the Emirates, and Jordan, etc. They were all established by the colonial powers after the fall of the Ottoman Empire, they were all created by moronic Europeans who divided the land based off of oil reserves, and not history, culture, or religion. But - somehow - you don't see Qatar fighting Bahrain non stop, or Emirates bombing the Saudis.

This is like saying you’re anti-genocide but you support the US’s right to exist.

I'm against going "ooh, but historically X should be Y". What's the historical state you want to turn back the borders to? Should Poland stop existing because we're turning back time to the 18th century? Are we going back to 19th century, where Ukraine was under the russian boot? What is the "correct" state of the world's borders, in your opinion?