Five Liberal members of Parliament are asking 25 Canadian university presidents to say whether calling for a genocide against Jewish people or the elimination of Israel violates their school policies.

  • Nouveau_Burnswick@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Edit: TL;DR: context matters.


    For examples:

    “I don’t like them Jews; fuck them, their space lasers, and the state of Israel” always bad.

    “I’m Palestinian and I would very much like my people to stop being genocided; I think removal of the state of Israel is the only feasible way” correct or incorrect, a geo-political statement, not necessarily a genocideal one, but could be with context.

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      11 months ago

      “TL;DR” implies a summary of the article, but you just seem to be stating a position which I guess is your own view.

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      10 months ago

      Just FYI, some quotation marks here would clear up what is your summary of the article, vs. your personal opinion. As it stands, it comes across as an actual antisemitic post which I don’t think was your intent.

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        10 months ago

        Hope that edit is more clear.

        Frankly, most people come to this issue with such blinders one way or another I don’t think it matters.

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      10 months ago

      The problematic part starts when you ask what should happen to all the Israelis. Maybe they want a one-state solution, which is fine, but quite often they want a genocide or ethnic cleansing of Jews in order to make space.

      Both the actual antisemites (of both white and Arab flavours) and the Zionists want to blur the fact that there’s two ways that could be meant. It’s really amazing how well people who hate each other can end up coordinating. See also Netanyahu and Hamas.