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Fmr Obama speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz laments to Jewish Federation that people are finding content from “Al Jazeera and Nick Fuentes” on social media and seeing videos of “the carnage in Gaza.”

Holocaust education has backfired in part as people see Palestinians as Jews’ victims, she adds.

“They think the lesson of the Holocaust is…you fight the big powerful people hurting the weak people.”

  • ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    They’re really like “the lesson of the holocaust is antisemitism bad” which, like, okay sure that is part of the lesson. But there were an additional 6M victims who were not jewish. Incredibly selfish take to think that your marginalized group is the only one that matters & to claim the entirety of the holocaust’s conferred victim status when your group was only 50% of the victims.

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      True, but then Zionists only barely give a shit about the Jewish victims of the Holocaust, never mind all the other victims that aren’t useful for their genocidal project propaganda.

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        i mean, one has to always remember that it’s not really about blood or genetic composition or religion, it’s about empire. saying they are semitic or indigenous is a front, an invention, a trick to give some rhetorical cover. If whiteys have made south africa in the arabian peninsula elsewhere, you also won’t hear the end of how they belong there

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        They are more Semitic than the Germans that left Germany to colonize the middle east and do… oh they did the Germany thing.

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          True… but I have seen neofascists explicitly reject Palestinians on grounds of their Jewish heritage, and I have noticed that, in general, there is an overlap between Jew-hatred and Arab-hatred. I have seen antisemites blame Jews for the influx of Middle Easterners moving to Europe and its former settler-colonies.

          So while I don’t apply ‘antisemitism’ in its literal sense like @Cat_Daddy@hexbear.net would, sometimes I wonder if it is worthwhile to quibble with those who do.