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  > If you said it in Germany you'd be considered a Nazi

Damn. If that's true then we're really labeling the wrong group of people as "Nazis". (I don't believe it's actually true though)

I mean we do understand that "Israel", "Jews", and "Zionists" are 3 different things, right?

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Antisemites use the terms “Zionists” as a dog whistle for Jews. I can show you threads on HN where it’s obvious from the context or where they’re used interchangeably.

This isn’t a new idea either. The Polish ethnically cleansed much of their last remaining Jews in 1968 with a campaign against “Zionism”.

https://www.polin.pl/en/march-68

The German government either does not understand that, or pretends not to understand that. Saying "F Israel" would be treated as a hate crime against Jews, which is treated even stronger than a regular hate crime due to history.

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