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> “criticism of israel”

This was not “criticism of israel”, it was attacking someone just because they are Israeli.

“Israelis” == Jews of the Levant. Saying “Israelis are baby killers” is antisemitic, and you, my friend, are being antisemitic.

And if you are actually Jewish, they will come for you too, eventually.

> which attempted to conflate all jews with israel

That is not what it did.

If the Jews of Italy are accused of being baby-killers, and the Jews of France say we are not baby-killers, the accusation against the Italian Jews is still antisemitism, and it’s not antisemitic to call it antisemitism.

Try playing out this thread with any other group:

OP: look at this cool product I made.

leopoldcongo: This is an African product, you can’t trust them.

Dan_Elkis: Racism is not cool anymore.

You: African != black. As a black person, I'll thank you for not conflating the two again, because claiming all blacks are African is tantamount to racism.

You see what’s happening here? You are ascribing horrific accusations against every Israeli for being Israeli.

Saying it’s ok to do this for only one group in the world, that happens to be Jewish is antisemitism. You don’t have to include every Jew in your accusations to be an antisemite. The Nazis had Kapos too.

It’s not anti-Zionist to make accusations about someone just because they are Israeli. That’s just being a shitty person.

Bro, blood libels always targeted only some Jews, but they targeted them because they were Jews.

This guy is responding to an innocent post about a product with accusations against it for being Israeli. Do you think it’s ok to make accusations against someone just because they are Israeli?

It might not technically be classical antisemitism, or implemented the same way, but is still bigotry of the same root.

Would you be ok with someone making accusations against anyone who is from an African country?