Who gives a fuck what Israel thinks?
this post was submitted on 02 Jan 2026
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Criticizing Israel is not Antisemitism.
It will never be Antisemitism.
It is an assault on non-israeli jews world wide to try to claim valid critisim of Israel is antisemitism. It is an intentional and malicious undermining of what Antisemitism is, to try and claim it has anything, whatsoever, to do with valid criticism of the racist, genocidal state of Israel.
at this point that's a compliment
"Antisemetic" now means "disagrees with the agenda of the Israeli government and military," which currently involves the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, the disruption of the economy, government, and society of all NATO nations and allies, and normalizing human rights abuses around the world.
We need more of these so-called "antisemites" in the US and other governments.
The fact the political establishment is this afraid of one mayor in one city with these ideas is all the indication you need to know these ideas are in our (the working people's) best interests.
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I don’t really follow the “anti-semitism” argument. AFAIK, Ashkenazi Jews like Netanyahu are basically European (a.k.a., white folks) with a little Semitic ancestry mixed in, whereas Palestinians are more or less pure Semites. Maybe the “anti-semitism” spiel holds up when comparing themselves to other Europeans, but how is this anything more than the usual white imperialists fabricating a philosophy to justify killing brown people and taking their land?
Its like "democratic republic" of North Korea, or national "socialists". They are none of these things, it's authoritarianism in cosplay.
Fascists know their ideas are unpopular, that's why they always pretend to be something else
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"Anyone who hates me is an antisemite!" - The Israeli Guide to Genocide
Fellas, is it antisemetic to perform your mayoral duties to New York City instead of Tel Aviv?
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Peak Irony: The nation that has very purposefully done the most to spread the impression that Genocide and Mass Murdering of Children is a Jewish trait and thus has endangered countless innocent Jews all over the World, claims that somebody who is against the kind of action that nation commits is against the Jewish People.
Ironic that one would post complaints about antisemitism on shitter, the platform whose very owner did a full on Hitler salute on live television in front of thousands of a local audience as well. twice!
Being anti Israel is not the same as being antisemitic, it's being anti-zionist.
You'll never convince zionists of that though
they know it, they are just using antisemitism as a free pass
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"Only two groups benefit from the conflation of zionism and Judaism: zionists, to legitimize zionism; and anti-semites, to vilify Judaism."
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If something displeases Israel, it very much pleases me. Please continue Mr. Mamdani!
Pardon my French but WHAT THE FUCK does Israel’s opinion on the mayor from a city half way around the globe have to do with anythingv
NYC has the largest jewish commiunity outside israel, many of which anti-zionists, and it shows how people of different faiths can co-live peacefully, so you can see why isreal wants to influence our politics
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Repeat after me: being anti-Israel (government) is not being anti-Semitic. Being anti-Hamas is not being Islamophobic. When you are against assholes and warcrimes you are anti-asshole and anti-warcriminal.
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he scraps the IHRA definition of antisemitism and lifts restrictions on boycotting Israel.
Which the IHRA itself adopted as a non-legally binding working definition. It is explicitly not meant to be used in a legal context.
Mandami lifted a rule stating you cannot stop doing buainess with isreal.
He gave people the FREEDOM to choose to stop dealing witb isreal. And of course, let the crybabies come out of the woodwork.
The opinion of a genocidaire is worthless.
I disagree.
In terms of Moral guidance their opinion is pretty much a perfect compass pointing exactly in the opposite direction of the one people should be aiming for.
When Evil rages about somebody, you know that person is on the side of Good.
"Israel says..." and "Israel accuses....." now have the same credibility and value as "Trump says..." or "Trump accuses..."
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Israel accuses X of antisemitism
I wonder how many people, like me, have just completely stopped paying this headline any attention. Oh, there they go again, calling someone anti-semitic. Was that like the person I heard who said something totally legit that was supposedly anti-semitic, or was that like the Jewish group that was supposedly anti-semitic?
Boy, stop crying wolf.
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Yawn. Israel needs to shut the fuck up
So they're shit scared of Mamdani then? That sounds like a good thing.
From the IHRA working definition, "[C]iticism of Israel similar to that leveled against any other country cannot be regarded as antisemitic."
Fuck you Israel.
This is how you know that Mamdani made a good choice. When the bullies cry crocodile tears, you can ignore them.
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Where can I buy antisemitic gasoline?
Sorry Israel but you don't represent Jews
Mamdani immediately rescinded all of Adams' executive orders made after Adams' indictment. I wish this article clarified if this EO was part of that batch.
Edit: It was: https://bsky.app/profile/hunterw.bsky.social/post/3mbhyhk2egc2e
The word antisemitism used to carry weight, now thanks to Israel it doesn't really anymore
That's what fascists do. Take terms that are commonly understood to mean something serious and use it against every person/group they don't like until it loses all meaning. Then when the fascists are inevitably found to be acting exactly like that term originally described, they can discredit whoever is accusing them because "everyone uses that word for everything, you just don't like us" despite being the cause of that problem in the first place.
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There was a time when a foreign country impugning a mayor would’ve been big news. Now “Israel accuses person of antisemitism” is just something that happens every few days.
Just like with the US government, if Israel's government is criticizing you you're on the right side.
Surely nobody cares what Israel has to say at this point.
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