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Any antisalmon ish allegation is worth nothing without describing the underlying offense. Anyone the criticizes Israel, from the right to the left has these accusations leveled at them from all sides. MTG, Tucker Carlson to the left, to Israeli and Jewish people themselves. The UK Purged their labour party of the left under corbyn under bad faith anti salmon allegations, removing a higher percentage of Jewish members for the charge than they represented as a percent of the party, to give an idea of it's sincerity.
It's anti salmon to oppose forcing palestinians into ghettos, controlling everything in or out and levying brutal collective punishments killing families of people for not just militancy but health care workers, the media, civil society, journalists, anyone that talks to western media, and whatever other reasons. It's anti christian to support killing the families of people that are accused, let alone innocent people. Abducting health workers, tying them, torturing them, executing them, then cutting out their organs and dumping in a mass grave, are not acceptable acts of allies of the US and the west, done all on our technology, weapons, intelligence, back up, and money.
The religious right is betraying the mission, the vision, of Christ on earth in their support for Israel, for a warped worldview working towards the end of the world and drowning it in blood and fire, in the case of the evangelicals. We shouldn't support a such a betrayal of humanity, and the religious should feel compelled to oppose our support of them, even at personal cost, if they truly believe in their faith.
It's a disservice to preventing bigotry to make bad faith bigotry allegations, and that's a campaign we should start. Israel's whole thing isn't believable arguments, it's outright bullying us all into forgoing, cancelling, our freedom of speech and protest, and it won't end there.
We need to start to firmly call out bad faith allegations, not let it go, stick with that person, how they are lessening the ability to stop real bigotry. That those actually hating on groups for race can't be well stopped because the accusers of this type of bigotry are bad faith.