I think the only form I’ve seen it in in the last year that wasn’t being used by people committing genocide is a friend with a necklace, and I feel like after a while the genocidal use really drowns out the necklaces.

I’ve seen the Star of David spray painted on too many bombed out homes and literally carved into human beings in a way indistinguishable from the swastika.

This article could’ve been written in 1935, “German tourists dismantle hillside Star of David, use stones to create Swastika” it’s just Jewish supremacists now instead of German supremacists.

[–] Moss@hexbear.net 37 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Imo it doesn't matter how many more atrocities Israel commits bearing the Star of David. The global South will consider it a hate symbol, the west might finally catch up in a hundred years. Much like the swastika, it is a symbol of a religion claimed and tainted by fascist

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think there is a difference between the two, in that (as far as I know) the nazi usage of the swastika wasn't really connected to its usage in Hindu/Jain/Buddhist (and probably some others I'm forgetting) religion, whereas the star of david is being used as a hate symbol by a group that loudly proclaims to represent all of Judaism (and is largely recognized as doing so by the west). Imo that means it'll be a lot harder to reconcile the ongoing usage of the star of david in a post-Israel world.

[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago

The nazis were into a bunch of occult and pagan shit to mix in with their hot takes on Christianity. One reason they chose the swastika was because they believed in a made-up mythology about how the original Aryan race was the origin of the human civilization and their symbol was the swastika, which was "stolen" by Buddhists, Hindus, and various other groups.

So while the nazis were disconnected from the religions that used it, they had their own religious "interpretation" of what it meant.

[–] charly4994@hexbear.net 29 points 1 month ago

I the comparison to the swastika is far more apt, it was and remains a religious symbol in many parts of the world, it's just that in the west a swastika is now permanently associated with hatred and genocide. You see media getting altered for a western release because the prominence of a swastika because a general audience won't see the religious symbol, but the symbol of a genocide. It's an inevitability at this rate.

[–] BeanisBrain@hexbear.net 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I’ve been worried about this for a while, how long is it until the Star of David is viewed more as a hate symbol than a religious one?

I've been there since shortly after October 7.

[–] stink@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 month ago

A post of mine from an earlier discussion of this:

I agree. My partner stopped wearing her star of david necklace. It took about a year post-oct 7th, but the decision was made after someone made a comment saying she was "so brave to wear that at a time like this". She decided to take it off due to the only comment she's ever received on that necklace implied that she was supportive of "israel".

My Palestinian parents also have a strong association of the star of david to israel, and how could they not? The flag is waved everywhere there, if someone beats you while waving the flag, burns your land and kills your livestock, I think it's fair to associate the symbol on that flag as a hate symbol. In their minds, the star of david is a symbol of ethnic supremacy.

[–] hellinkilla@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

how long is it until the Star of David is viewed more as a hate symbol than a religious one?

Does this look like something that was done more out of

Religion
Hate

The ship has sailed.

[–] stink@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 month ago

[–] WittyProfileName2@hexbear.net 49 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The fact that right wing media is hyper focusing on the cross being dismantled and not all the tributes to the dead on Hill of Names that were also wrecked by these dickheads is worrying.

Like, they're trying to use their skewed coverage stories like this to manipulate the narrative away from antizionism and towards antisemitism, by making the discussion instead about some Jews Vs Christians shit.

[–] mendiCAN@hexbear.net 24 points 1 month ago (4 children)

im imagining all the actual good these "religious" people could have done in their communities rather than wasting time on fuckin' iconography. both groups are some fake-ass faithful

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 18 points 1 month ago (2 children)

fuckin' iconography

Even if they just did that (eg a classic cock & balls), the story would have been 0.1% better somehow.

[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Also way easier to turn a cross into a cock and balls.

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Dang, son, true!
Great minds can indeed lower hate crime severity.

[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

dong >>> religious symbols

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Oh ... now that you put it this way - I'm pretty sure people worshipped magnum dong iconography way before any gods from the Middle East.

Basically this

dong >>> other religious symbols

But other perhaps not including the thicc

(Wait, they had fish nets at the time, right?)
(Edit: they did!! "The net was made from willow, and dates back to 8300 BC. Recently, fishing net sinkers from 27,000 BC were discovered in Korea, making them the oldest fishing implements discovered, to date, in the world.")

[–] TrashGoblin@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago

Thicc thighs save souls.

[–] SuperNovaCouchGuy2@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago

If those Jewish "religious" tourists were zionazis and/or pissraelis then the good they can do for the world is walking into the ocean.

The anglican christcucks can do the same. Fucking cancer on earth.

[–] regul@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago

Byzantine emperor Leo III was onto something.

[–] Chana@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago

wasting time on fuckin' iconography

@mendiCAN@hexbear.net taking a strong stance against the :israel-cool: struggle session.

[–] BountifulEggnog@hexbear.net 18 points 1 month ago

Kind of a funny bit

[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 18 points 1 month ago

let-them-fight