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3 hours ago, King Coconut said:

But that's just it. Israelis haven't had to fight for shit. Jews, maybe. If you can call that fighting.

I was referring more to the historical struggle of the Jewish people to survive and eventually gain their own nation rather than the fight of the modern day Israeli. 

Carbomb, very interesting reading that, thanks.

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17 hours ago, SuperBacon said:

Anyone want to tell me what I'm missing here in this being anti-semitism?

I'm no expert on the politics of the Middle-East, but I have seen a lot of Facebook and Twitter posts from people I know who are active in various socialist parties and groups saying that the tactics used by the US police that saw the killing of George Floyd are indeed fairly common when it comes to Israeli police or army when they restrain Palestinians.

It amazes the shit out of me how someone can post images of the exact same thing happening to Palestinians (often Palestinian children at that) and the same people roasting the US police for systemic racism immediately start branding the poster of such images as antisemitic and racist.

I think I'm getting too old for social media. 

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13 hours ago, LaGoosh said:

Carbomb, very interesting reading that, thanks.

Yeah, it was really interesting. I know it's a bit white noise to just reiterate that but it's something I just had no idea about and I'm sure it was the same for some others here so I felt like I had to. This place can be great like that... 

I even shared it with my father in law on WhatsApp because we were discussing this situation on one of our family groups.

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