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Netanyahu Says It’s Antisemitic For Israeli Soldiers To Describe Their Own Atrocities
(caitlinjohnstone.com.au)
this post was submitted on 29 Jun 2025
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It's so sinister. Latching on to the real history of blood libel to not only reinforce the idea that liberal media lies as a matter of routine, but to simultaneously use that reinforcement to build up the idea that liberals are either secretly antisemetic or too led around by the nose by propaganda to realize their antisemitism.
Of course it's deeply antisemitic for netanyahu to do this. It's also going to be extremely effective.
All those liberals going along with the idea that it's possible to discriminate in a positive way only have themselves to blame when it turned out that their "positive" support of those they perceive as representatives of an ethnicity whom they (the liberals) view as "victims" as whole (i.e. all individuals of that ethnicity, rather than just the actual victims) was just racist prejudice and discrimination and stupidly easy to abuse to support ethnic cleansing (as long as those doing the murdering are from a "victim" race).
Support for any kind of ethnic-wide assumptions about people and different standards of judgement and actions towards them based on their ethnicity, is the very same kind of view of one's fellow human beings as the Nazis had, just with different "good" races and "bad" races.
People should be judged on and treated based on what they support and what they do, not the ethnicity they were born into.
I think it actually trivializes the allegations made by the IDF solidiers because the substance of historical "blood libel" myths seem almost gentle by comparison of what is actually going on. Baking bread with the blood of the occasional child would hardly even be noticed among the on going horrific carnage.
The religions throw around antisemitism like it's a catch phrase. Don't forget 'islamophobia'.
It's all just stealth blasphemy laws. "Don't talk bad about our hate religion, or you're a bad person". That's what blasphemy laws are, and they're illegal for good reasons.
Why the fuck you're doing a pointing game with the word 'antisemetic' is beyond me. Sounds like the typical christian "they're not real christians, only I am!!!"
islamaphobia dint really stick with people, anti-semitic has been around and established for decades of documented atrocities. islamaphobia is a very new concept has to do with extremely prejuidicial white people.