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Sir, gently revoke thyself from this thread with your blatant antisemitism/antizionisn.

We've banned many accounts for antisemitic comments. If you want to see what that looks like, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18132624 is an example from this thread. (You'll need to set 'showdead' to 'yes' in your profile to see it, because I'm not going to unkill it just to make a point.)

That's not what padraic7a posted, you can't do personal attacks here, and since it looks like you created this account just to do flamewar, I've banned it too.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Not to lean either way, but it would be nice if it was possible to criticize Israel without it being conflated with antisemitism. Criticizing Saudi Arabia, for example, doesn't typically cause people to assume I'm criticizing Islam.

You can criticize Israel as much as you want. But what people so often do is to apply different morals to Israel and other countries. And that's is pure antisemitism.

Israel gets the same level of expectations as any other 'western' democratic state as it ultimately wants to be part of if it isn't already the Western community.

Why are you confusing antisemitism and antizionism?

The poster is criticising the actions of a state, that's not anti-semitism in any way. He didn't even say anything about jews or judaism.

Don't bother, he created a throwaway just to say stupid shit. There's no point in following his game, downvote, flag and ignore is the best course of action.

I don't know if the OP of this thread is part of the antizionism camp. I can only assert that he is an idiot (He looks at the map and cannot see the long border that is shared between Gaza and Egypt)

BUT antisemitism == antizionism as it simply design to strip Jews from their own homeland. Antizionism is not part of a global anti nationality movement that says "Let's abolish the 57 Islamic countries, the 21 Arab countries and this one Jewish state" its one and only goal is to deny from the Jews what many other have.

I don't think anyone who claims to be anti-zionist apart from the far-right of the spectrum calls for the destruction of Israel.

The "homeland" reason is stupid. Religion should have no say in politics, including the founding of states.

It is only relevant that it is what a major part of Gaza population claims.

Israeli people feel that anti-zionist effectively results in giving weapons and access to those who wish to use them, which means destruction and ethnic murder. Unwillingness the explain how this outcome is prevented seems to many as complete alignment with Hamas goals and effectively (indirectly) calling for the destruction of Israel.

What's with the ye olde language anyway?

Also it's not bad to criticize a state for dickish behaviour. That's not antizionism, that's calling a spade a spade.

"anti" = opposition.

Opposition can have various degrees.

The terms you used are often reserved for substantial prejudice and discrimination (see Allport's scale).

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