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[Jumpin]

SanAndreasX said:

Jumpin said:

Just on a related note to this topic.

I really hate the doublespeak around anti-Semitism as a buzzword for anti-Israeli colonialism. On one edge of the blade, it is wielded as a weapon against legitimate free speech over human rights concerns. And on the other edge of the blade, it completely trivializes the human rights violations of actual anti-semitism from groups like the Charlottesville Tiki-Torchers, the KKK, neo-nazis, and other such groups.

You have (both indirectly and directly) the highest office in the US endorsing human rights violations.

How many times has Trump made anti-semitic remarks over the past 9 years? From time to time, he'll complain how "ungrateful" Jewish voters are over his support of Netanyahu and moving the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv (even in the last election, they still went 4-1 for Kamala Harris). 

I don't know if he's made any anti-semetic remarks, maybe someone who is more familiar with Trump knows? But, that's not my point.

My point is that he's endorsing human rights violations directly by suppressing protests against Israeli colonialism while indirectly by trivializing actual anti-semitism by conflating it with protests against Israeli colonialism.