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Jewish guests staying at a Travelodge hotel in London have expressed their shock and horror after being confronted with a "Free Palestine" message on their rooms' televisions.
Shock and horror at a message urging ending genocide.
visibly Jewish
What did they mean by this
They just came back from performing Fiddler on the Roof.
Probably dressed in typical religious attire?
What does it add to the reporting that “two Jewish guests” doesn’t already?
This is a media criticism angle question - think about why a rag like this would say “visibly” and what emotion that intends to stir. Why does it matter when they’re interacting with a faceless computer system that doesn’t know they’re “visibly Jewish”? Why should we care whether they choose to outwardly express their faith or not? Does it make them more or less worthy “victims”?
And so on.
Because two visibly Rastafari people probably wouldn't be crying about a free Palestine message?
Maybe they thought hotel staff intentionally assigned them to that room and quickly made that message while they were on the way to their room?
Maybe every TV in the hotel had the same message and they're doing the typical Israeli thing of playing the victim?
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Considering how the news likes to play with words, it's entirely possible they were wearing clothes that had the Israeli flag on it but the news is choosing to define it as Jewish
So, a guest changed the username on the TV in the room. We need to involve the cops right now
Right? World's biggest crybaby shit
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Even if this did happen—which, let's be real, this has some big 'blacks rule' 
energy—it's pretty common knowledge that the service code for the Travelodge TV admin menu is 1105. Literally anybody could have changed this at any point in the last three years.
it's pretty common knowledge that the service code for the Travelodge TV admin menu is 1105
i wouldn't think that's common knowledge at all actually
That's fair. It's common knowledge enough that I've met people who've figured it out independently, outside of us extremely online nerds. Maybe not with the general public. Valid criticism.
But let's say you wanted to stir up some shit, and looked up ways to do it. Suddenly
Yeah I was just saying I don't think the average layperson can tell you off the top of their head the Travelodge TV admin code lol. I can assure you now though that I've associated the phrase "1105 Travelodge admin" with the idea of 'common knowledge' in my brain so be sure to test me in the future on a random thread. I fear for whatever actual piece of common knowledge got booted out in my brain for it.
"Can anyone do CPR here?! We've got a man down!!"
Me in the future: 
1105 travelodge admin
the western media's going to keep this up and eventually there's going to be turbo genocide against the jews since the average normie thinks that the jews, as a monolith, love genocide actually 
in fact once 
is finally brought down the west will 1000% blame "the jews" for everything
I was talking to a USA Democrat relative and she told me that watching Israel's actions had made her start to get angry when she saw Jewish people. And that she "knows about the holocaust and all that" but that she "doesn't feel sorry for them anymore" because what they're doing in Palestine is wrong. I was surprised that she was self-aware enough to realize she was developing a strong anti-Jewish prejudice, but also that she seemingly was okay or even proud of her prejudice. I tried to talk her out of it but she basically clammed up when I started talking about her duty as a person to counteract the prejudice.
Ultimately, it exposed some of the inner workings when someone is developing a prejudice. They go through life with a simple, wrong heuristic, assigning humans to groups and making them collectively liable for actions of their group. That group is then judged as "good" and worthy of praise, or "bad" and worthy of scorn. It's not complicated stuff but it is shameful and common.
I had a similar experience last semester with one of my closer classmates. He basically asked something like "How am I not supposed to be antisemitic?" I just explained to him that there are Jewish antizionists and that he only sees otherwise because the mainstream media amplifies only one side. And that was sufficient for him, but I also have a lot of credibility on this because I've been openly Pro Palestine.
Thing is that I can't blame him at all for coming to this conclusion, every and I mean every single Jewish org in our area is Zionist. So when they see mainstream media, politicians, and Israel conflate the two why wouldn't they believe them?
Yeah, how many synagogues are organizing against the genocide? How many jewish groups are actively advocating for an end to israel? Compared to how many are actively advocating for the genocide and deepening ties to israel
It's not just the media, the quantity of genuninely antizionist jewish organizations is vanishingly small and mostly located within Iran if I had to guess
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Fuck I have seen it happening both on this site and lemmygrad, and some motherfuckers still say shit like "antisemitism isn't a real thing anymore". Hell looks like it's happening in this fucking thread.
What’s happening in this thread has no bearing on material conditions whatsoever. Might as well be talking about belief in the tooth fairy.
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A turbo genocide? Is gaza/lebanon just a regular genocide?
That would require the average westerner to give a shit about brown people being killed
turbo genocide
Like the actually real one in Gaza? Or Lebanon? The western media is owned by zionists (jewish or not does not make a difference they're all zionists), they're harping on about "judeochristian values", the jews that are in danger live in Iran not europe.
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There's people dying who tf cares
Everybody should be greeted with it regardless.
If anything, people at large in the US and Western Europe are the ones who need to be confronted with messages like this.
International news because zionists had to read 2 words
This was their 9/11
Lmao... 
Shomrim, a Jewish community policing network in north London, said the men’s treatment “bears all the hallmarks of targeted antisemitism”.
Acknowledging genocide is antisemitism 
Lol cool
Infinite mild discomfort to the genocidal ethnofascists.
LBC understands that a second guest, staying in a separate room, also received the same message
''Sir, a second isn'treally received the message.''
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