I have never posted, commented or did anything else in this community and only found out when I wanted to make a post about the GNU Taler in Switzerland.

I have been a vocal critic of Israeli Warcrimes and Nettanyahus authoritarianism, calling him a potential Fascist. But I guess that wasn’t Anti-Israel enough and therefore Zionism.

I guess this is a modern-day example of “the revolution devours its own children”.

    • FelixCress@lemmy.world
      172·
      28 days ago

      You are not wrong. He appears to be one of genocide apologists.

      Edit: Funnily enough, I don’t even consider myself “anti Zionist”, although Israeli supporters may think about me this way since I support one state with equal rights for all residents and right to return for all Palestinian refugees and their descendants.

      But more importantly, I am just opposed to genocide and nazi scum. I guess this is enough to be labelled these days.

    • neons@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      38·
      28 days ago

      I tend to be careful to not call a person antisemitic, which leads to more confrontation and toxicity from my experience, but to instead explain to them why their actions are antisemitic. The same here.

      I went back to look at the Discussion and in this case this particular user told me that “Jews” were the “Nationality” of Israel. I told them why this was antisemitism, told them why (mixing Judaism the Religion with Israel the state) and asked them to stop this.

      I honestly don’t think I did anything wrong there. I didn’t call them antisemitic and instead calmly explained to them why their statements were antisemitic. I blocked them instead of letting the discussion get out of control when it became clear they would continue even after my explanation why it was antisemitic.

      No name-calling, calm explanation and disengagement instead of escalation.