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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I think it’s important to actually read what’s inside this thing because it’s pretty sinister:

https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/services/canada-holocaust/antisemitism/handbook-definition-antisemitism.html

You do not need to read the entire thing, just the first part will give you the information needed to know that this isn’t actually about antisemitism. It’s to protect Israel.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

no way that's gonna be abused in any fashion

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

Example 10: Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis.

What is the point in treating these paskudnyaks with any respect if they're just going to throw all caution to the wind and automatically place Jewish WW2 resistants, Shoah survivors or even settlers theirselves in the same category as actual antisemites like some shitty little computer programme?

https://www.wrmea.org/kq36

"The border guards usually enjoy beating the Arabs," the account continues. "They derive pleasure from it...

"Sometimes I feel like a Nazi when I watch my friends in action. I try hard to stay away from one of my commanders ... He always behaves very badly toward the locals: with violence, beatings, and the like...

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v24/n09/yitzhak-laor/after-jenin

If the mission is to seize a densely populated refugee camp, or take over the kasbah in Nablus, and if the commander’s obligation is to try to execute the mission without casualties on either side, then he must first analyse and internalise the lessons of earlier battles – even, however shocking it may sound, even how the German Army fought in the Warsaw Ghetto.

Perhaps I should preemptively declare all promoters of the IHRA's worthless redefinition as antisemitic and see how much they like it. Fuck Canada and fuck the occupation that it supports.