US Senator Lindsay Graham has just tweeted an article titled “Greta Thunberg sets sail with Gaza flotilla that aims to break Israeli naval blockade,” adding the comment, “Hope Greta and her friends can swim!”

Australian Zionist think tanker Arsen Ostrovsky somehow outdid Graham, tweeting “Oh look, the little jihadi Greta Thunberg is trying to get into Gaza, to show solidarity with Hamas. It would be so sad if something were to happen to her flotilla…”

There’s not a lot that can shock me about Israel and its supporters these days. But if you’d traveled back in time a few years ago it would be hard to explain to someone how we got to a timeline that includes Israel supporters openly advocating the assassination of Greta Thunberg.

  • DrSleepless@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    That’s how you now you’re on the right side of history, when you want to kill somebody trying to bring food to starving humans.

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      6 months ago

      I don’t think they give a fuck about being on the right side of history. They just care about being on The Right.

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        6 months ago

        True Zionists legitimately believe they are fighting a righteous holy war with the lord on their side. They believe they will be vindicated by God. To them, people like Greta are agents of evil.

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        6 months ago

        Despite its weaponization by Israel, antisemitism remains a valid category of hate. It’s one of the greatest disservices of Israel to the Jewish diaspora world wide to appropriate it like this.

        In fact the fight against antisemitism in the world is directly linked with Palestine liberation: If Jews are able to live safe, free and fulfilled lives outside of Israel, the entire Zionist argument for Israel as the safe haven falls apart. I want my Jewish neighbours to live free and happy here with me, not to migrate to Israel! So any antisemitic attack on them here is a complete outrage, as it reinforces the narrative that they need Israel for safety.

        Each Jew that lives in the diaspora is one less Israeli colonist. Protect them!

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          Exactly. There’s been far too much hate against Jewish people throughout history, almost always as scapegoats to cover for the consequences of someone else’s greed (kings, dictators, and other authoritarians love to do this). Always stand up for your he-bros and he-broettes when antisemites harass and/or attack them.

          There’s no excuse for an ethnostate in the 21st century. Nor is there excuse for letting our fellow human beings be attacked for their religious, sexual, or gender identity.

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    6 months ago

    ITT: People clutching their pearls over a nebulous tweet while outright wishing death on every conservative and their families.

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      Totally ignoring the fact that they started the war with a mass murder.

      How about how Israel was founded on a genocide?

      This isn’t a new “war”. The so called “war” was started in the late 19th century when European zionist colonists went to Palestine to displace or kill Palestinians for their land because they thought they, a bunch of white people, had bigger historical claim to that land than the actual native people that had been there for centuries.

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      6 months ago

      There is so much wrong with your comment I dont even know where to start.

      What I will say; Israel has no right to exist, no ethnostate does because that always entails the ethnic cleansing of whoever doesnt fit.

      Either way, israel lost that right when they started their state by ethnically cleansing 700k+ Palestinians, stealing their land, kill men, women and children and now enacting genocide live.

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          “Palestinians could just mind their business”

          How so when they dont have rights, their land is being stolen, women raped and children killed?

          You’re either a sick person or severely misinformed.

          “It has no interest in expelling population within it”

          We literally just had a poll conducted by Penn state that showed that 82% of Israelis want to expel (aka ethnically cleanse) the Palestinians in Gaza.

          Oh not to mention that 47% think we should enact the same actions that Joshua enacted upon the amalek which is complete eradication (aka genocide).

          (Source: https://archive.is/nNzq4)

          And let’s not forget the countless statements by Israeli officials either saying we want the Palestinians in Gaza to leave or that we will eradicate them from Gaza.

          Just wtf are you on about?