The majority of European antisémites have zero problem with the existence of Israel “out there”. They are more than happy to see the Jews leave Europe for the middle east. American antisémites are fantasizing that Israel will be the site of the Second Coming of Christ who will then turn all the Jews into Christians.

This observation alone should tell you everything about why it is stupid and wrong to use attitudes towards Israel as proxy measures for attitudes towards Jews. When the antisémites pass your metric with flying colours whereas Jewish anti-Zionists fail it, your metric is just shit, simple as that.

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What’s actually fucked is that this kind of move only brings above board practices that have already been happening in the down low for large sectors of the economy.

The “Greek recovery” is being built on cheap labour, without any kind of productivity gains, technology development, or real diversification of the economy.

On 24 November 2015, a Turkish Air Force F-16 fighter jet shot down a Russian Sukhoi Su-24M attack aircraft near the Syria–Turkey border.[1][2] According to Turkey, the aircraft was fired upon while in Turkish airspace because it violated the border up to a depth of 2.19 kilometres (1.36 miles) for about 17 seconds after being warned to change its heading ten times over a period of five minutes before entering the airspace.

(Wikipedia)

Palestine Will Be Free.

Hello fellow Montrealer. I did not know that vile slogan was chanted here, it is even more stupid in a settler society like Canada. I knew about the shooting of the empty schools, and it’s frankly revolting.

Apart from actual antisemite scum, there are reasonable people that just don’t understand (yet) the key role of Jewish safety for Palestinian liberation.

I want a vibrant, safe and flourishing Jewish community here in Montreal. I want Jewish people here to weigh doing aliyah vs staying in Montreal and choosing the second as a no-brainer obvious option. Literally the opposite of the kind of antisemitic zionism of the right wingers: I don’t want Jews to be carted off away from me, I want them to stay right here, keep being my neighbours, free and safe. And together we can work on decolonizing Turtle Island, but that’s a whole other story.

Unequivocally, and as a Palestine liberation supporter: any call to broadly expel the Jews from the lands of historic Palestine is Anti-semitism.

At the same time, I haven’t actually heard this slogan at any marches or encampments in my city.

Regardless, the key is to understand that a Jewish safe homeland in the lands of historic Palestine does not necessarily mean a Jewish ethnostate.

The utopian Zionist dream (not the Kahanist dystopia of “really existing” Zionism) is realizable in a free, democratic and equal binational state, with both Aliyah and the Right to Return for Palestinians, following a Truth and Reconciliation process and the payment of Reparations.

I find the economic decoupling of great powers very troubling for the future stability of the world. To avoid a world war, and to actually have a chance to address climate change and other world-scale problems, we need more economic interdependence, not more “sovereignty”.

It’s a very very risky escalation not because of NATO, but because France is a nuclear power in its own right. And if nukes start flying around, NATO or no NATO, WW3 has already started.

Macron was the leader that was being mocked for trying to keep talking to Putin and trying to find a way to talk through the crisis.

This reversal in posture I think is extremely telling of how far gone the Russian leadership is… When even your best interlocutor turns away, even more when they turn hardliner against you, that means they have seen something that has deeply deeply shaken them.

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The right question to ask is whether the president can decide to assassinate a supreme court justice. Then it becomes plenty clear to the supreme court fucks how obviously insane the rationale is.

Abandoning oil based economies is good.

If it is about Israel being the one thing the US can control in the middle east, I wonder then if this is not the US realizing it is losing control of their asset.

German institutions in particular should stay out of the business of fucking with Jewish groups. I mean, malaka, come on.

Only the bds movement is not about “don’t buy from Jews”, it is about “use peaceful means to pressure Israeli institutions to change course”.

This is just the rebound effect. When you reach the bottom, any step up looks huge.

You’re equating Hamas with Palestine. That is not smart.

It already is apparently: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_crime#Germany

The German Criminal Code does not have hate crime legislation, instead, it criminalizes hate speech under a number of different laws, including Volksverhetzung. In the German legal framework motivation is not taken into account while identifying the element of the offence. However, within the sentencing procedure the judge can define certain principles for determining punishment. In section 46 of the German Criminal Code it is stated that “the motives and aims of the perpetrator; the state of mind reflected in the act and the willfulness involved in its commission”[44] can be taken into consideration when determining the punishment; under this statute, hate and bias have been taken into consideration in sentencing in past cases.[45]

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