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Exposing Jewish Exceptionalism In Canadian Media (www.readthemaple.com)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/canada@lemmy.ca
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[–] 16 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

Conflating Israel and its actions with Judaism in general is anti-Semitic.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    Conflation is antisemitic, and blaming Canadian Jews for what Israel is doing is unacceptable. I think we should be asking Canada's Jewish communities to use their special relationship(s) with Israel to apply maximum pressure to stop the genocide and famine.

    I think you should write a letter to your MP first. The Israeli ambassador second. A local Israeli consular official third (if applicable). Your MLA/MPP fourth. Any organizations you're part of that have a special relationship with Israel.

    ...Then talk to your Jewish friends to explain that you've reached out to the people most responsible for communicating with Israel, but if they feel they have a special relationship with Israel you'd really appreciate it if they'd use whatever influenece they have to make it clear that Canada's Jewish community doesn't support the genocide of Gaza.

    CBC's podcast Front Burner recently did an interview with a UNICEF worker that had just returned from Gaza, it's heartbreaking.

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  • [+] -10 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Sure but there's also a dog whistle aspect. Honestly though as a non-jew but also a non-jew hater it makes lemmy a really unappealing platform when every network I go on just wants to talk about (((the jews))). I know that if you click the link and read the article the word Jewish comes up 143 times and Israel 60 but guys.... I just want to read about Canada or something else unrelated to the middle east.

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  • [–] 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 child)

    Right, because the specific context is that Israel is purposefully trying to utilize people's understandable distaste for anti-Semitism to cover for its actions, and how Canadian media outlets are helping that happen. When Israel itself is trying to further the anti-Semitic notion that Jewish people totally unrelated to the state of Israel have any relation or responsibility for that state's actions, it makes sense that Judaism might have to come up in the discussion.

    I just want to read about Canada or something else unrelated to the middle east.

    Well I have good news. There are many other posts in this community from just today and yesterday that don't relate to Israel or the Middle East at all. But you read and commented on this one for some reason.

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  • [–] 8 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Oh noes, somebody used extremely valid criticism on my favorite group here, I don't like this place!

    You do understand that the Israeli government is committing genocide and that it's very annoying that they managed to brainwash people like you into thinking that any and all valid criticism if Israel somehow equates antisemitism?

    Get your head out of your ass

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    It's like when people scream "Sinophobia!" when someone criticizes the Chinese government, as an example. Criticism and condemnation of a country's government for committing atrocities is not the same as attacking that country's people. Most of the time the people are powerless to do anything about what their government does in these situations.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago*

    This is a dishonest representation of what the article is about and why the word "jews" shows up so many times. The article talks about precisely how pro-Israeli spokespeople and news coverage use "jews" as a cover for their pro-Israeli positions. For example, there is a whole section about how nobody except the pro-Israelis call Israel "the jewish state". Another is about how lists of IDF soldiers is being turned around by pro-Israeli spokespeople and their sympathizers as "lists of jews".

    In effect, you're doing the same judo move that the article itself documents. You are turning the thread under an article about how criticism of Israel is being derailed by bad faith accusations of antisemitism, into ...a series of bad faith accusations of antisemitism on the entire lemmy platform and community!

    Nobody fucking wants to talk about (((the Jews))) except ...you!

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