Israel is a rabid dog that need to be put down
Cool it with the dogwhistles
It’s a reference to what the DPRK said about Joe Biden
It’s still an anti-Semitic dogwhistle and I’m not comfortable with it
Since when is “rabid dog” an antisemitic dogwhistle? Or is any criticism of Israel written with the use of literary devices to be labelled as an antisemitic dogwhistle?
Since when is “rabid dog” an antisemitic dogwhistle?
Since anti-semites called Jews dogs in their anti-semitic propaganda dating back over a century.
is any criticism of Israel written with the use of literary devices to be labelled as an antisemitic dogwhistle?
No, use of literary devices to criticize Israel is not an anti-semitic dogwhistle. Specifically referring to them as dogs is.
Everyone calls everyone else dogs, it’s literally the most common insult in the world.
With a very well documented history in anti-Semitic propaganda. We can criticize Israel without using phrases that attract white supremacists to our spaces
Jews aren’t being called “dogs”. The state of Israel is being called a rabid dog, and rightfully.
Equating Israel with jewish people is one of the main tools that the PR teams of Israel and the IDF use to protect themselves from criticism of their genocidal expansion project, and you have fallen right into the trap.
I’m not falling into a trap, I am asking a member of my community to not use a dogwhistle that attracts white supremacists
Calling someone a “dog” isn’t a dogwhistle, I think you may be confused.
Anti-semitic animal based dogwhistles are usually some form of vermin; rats, cockroaches etc. Things that are usually seen as in need of extermination.
Hey thanks for this. You are correct that I was confused. I had falsely believed that calling Jews “dogs” was a long anti-Semitic tradition. I did more research and discovered that actually historically they were called rats and lice and very few examples exist of anti-semitics tropes comparing Jews and dogs.
The most salient example of that was an American trend to hang a sign on your shop that said “No Jews or dogs allowed”, but that doesn’t meet the standard of what I had believed.
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Oh youre not comfortable? I had forgotten that we were all here to cater to you.
I don’t expect anyone to cater me. I expect to be able to express my beliefs and lived experience.
In this case, it turns out my discomfort was based on a false belief. I had falsely believed that calling Jews “dogs” was a long anti-Semitic tradition. I did more research and discovered that actually historically they were called rats and lice and very few examples exist of anti-semitics tropes comparing Jews and dogs.
The most salient example of that was an American trend to hang a sign on your shop that said “No Jews or dogs allowed”, but that doesn’t meet the standard of what I had believed.
Speaking of, if you wanted a primarry source of Nazi antisemetism then watch The Eternal Jew. It is a Nazi propoganda movie that a lot of colleges make students watch as an excersise to show the climate of antisemetism. That one uses the rat insult a lot, and has some really traumatizing photage of a dead guy in a ghetto covered in rats as people walk past him.
Watching that movie was very rough for me but I felt like I left with a better understanding of what living in Nazi Germany was like. I can’t imagine living in a world where something so brutal is just playing in movie theaters.
Anyone who was against Syrian sovereignty is either an imperialist, uncle Tom, and or an idiot. Wtf do they think was the goal of weakening Syria? Freedom, gtfoh with that bullshit. The sooner we all realize none of these imperialists are acting in good faith, the sooner we stop wasting time on bullshit.
I know we can’t effect anything, but at least it would save us time countering this trash by just dismissing it. Being condescendingly dismissive is valid.
Yo that is a major escalation. WTF? We’re at the precipice of all out war in the region
They always bomb the demascus airport, they bombed it last week and the week before it
It wasn’t directly in Damascus but in the outskirts, according to some sources 2 Irani soldier have been killed during the attack.
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They sadly feel they can do what they want and that’s probably true within reason. Iran isn’t getting involved because the US is right there and they don’t want to be bombed and have to deal with getting into a long-lasting war any more than the US does at this point. Same with other regional powers. They make statements in support of Palestine, draw red lines, and then yank the lines back a little when Israel toes up to them. They’ll allow Israel to make certain shows without reacting with violence because none of the players in that region wants the regional war they can all see happening if they jump in against the zionist occupation.
So remember when Israel justified its first invasion of Palestine because foreign Arab powers were attacking Israel?
Turns out regimes that use that excuse to punish unrelated people are also not above doing a little attacking of foreign nations themselves.
This is a huge thing, Jesus lol
Are they trying to start a world war? I feel like we’re already pretty close and this is just another step
It’s not as huge as it might seem. They’ve been bombing Syria for literally years.
Oh. I didn’t know that, apologies