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Democrat Leader Chuck Shumer says there is no genocide in Gaza (www.ynetnews.com)

submitted 6 days ago by IndustryStandard@lemmy.world to c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world

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“There was an incident on the New York subway and a bunch of people got on, protesters or whatever, and said, ‘All the Zionists, get off.’ When the head of the Brooklyn Museum, who was Jewish, but the Brooklyn Museum had nothing to do with Israel or taking positions on Israel — her house is smeared in red paint. That’s antisemitism. And a lot of the slogans that people use either are or slide into antisemitism.”

“The one that bothers me the most is genocide,” Schumer added. “Genocide is described as a country or some group tries to wipe out a whole race of people, a whole nationality of people. So if Israel was not provoked and just invaded Gaza and shot at random Palestinians, Gazans, that would be genocide. That’s not what happened. In fact, the opposite happened. And Hamas is much closer to genocidal than Israel.

Schumer also sharply criticized the UN for using the term “genocide” when describing the war in Gaza. “The U.N. has been anti-Israel, antisemitically against Israel. [Daniel Patrick] Moynihan was my idol. He became famous when in 1976 [it was 1975] they tried to pass a resolution, Zionism is racism.

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[–] the_three_tomatoes@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (19 children)

I don't like that the mods deleted your comment.

But, have you seen the news recently? I was studying this before and have read a lot. I am now convinced it's a genocide. Openly cutting aid off for almost a month... that's insane.

[–] Keeponstalin@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago (9 children)

That commenter is a Zionist who has repeatedly justified Israel's actions, continued to repeat Zionist propaganda regardless of how many times it gets debunked, and has denied both that Israel has been cutting off aid throughout the genocide and the reality of famine in Gaza

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