• Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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        I think it’s more a case of yet again calling everything and everyone anti semitic

    • AFaithfulNihilist@lemmy.world
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      What specifically did he say that was rationalizing anti-semitism?

      Is it your belief that all anti-Zionism is anti-semitism?

      • Not the guy you replied to, but:

        In 1983, he announced in the New Statesman that Hitler had his reasons for exterminating six million men, women and children. “There is a trait in the Jewish character that does provoke animosity,” he said. “I mean, there’s always a reason why anti-anything crops up anywhere; even a stinker like Hitler didn’t just pick on them for no reason.”

        That’s… pretty fucking anti-semitic ngl. He’s basically victim-blaming Jewish people for the Holocaust. Also “picking on them” is quite a eufemism for “industrially genociding”.

        That’s got nothing to do with zionism or being anti-Israel.

        • AFaithfulNihilist@lemmy.world
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          Yep that’s pretty fucking horrific.

          I think that’s case closed.

          If we’re done here can you turn off the lights on your way out?