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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[–] Diva@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Dbzer0 civility rules aim to protect marginalized people from harassment. feddit.org's are being deployed to protect Zionism from criticism while tone-policing Palestinians and their allies. These aren't the same thing just because they both use the word 'civility.'

feddit isn't exactly enforcing civility neutrally. They're silencing anti-Zionism while treating Zionist positions as the default that deserves civil engagement. That's a political choice with the fig leaf of 'just following ~~orders~~ the law', hardly 'basic logic'. But thanks for explaining to a silly girl like me silly-liberator

[–] luciferofastora@feddit.org -1 points 1 day ago

Aside from the fact that following the law should be an understandable concession to wanting your instance to continue existing:

I don't think I've seen any Anti-Palestine sentiment there. I'm also pretty sure most of us are on the same page about Zionism. This dispute is about the way that we express it, which is being framed as defending it and compared to actively perpetrating genocide.

There is a significant difference between following laws about hatespeech and following orders to actually murder people. Erasing all nuance doesn't help the actual discourse about what we all agree is systematic genocide against the Palestinian people.