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[–] [email protected] 119 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

The appropriate, historically accurate comparison is to student protests against South African apartheid and he knows it. Reportedly, those very protests grew into the strong boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement that ended apartheid in South Africa. This is what he fears and what corporate media is actively trying to prevent.

Only people with no information on either the actual history or current situation are going to fall for this baseless slander. Sadly there are probably still a number of those around.

[–] RestrictedAccount 22 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Those shantytowns were obnoxious and they worked.

[–] FlyingSquid 22 points 8 months ago

I was only a kid at the time, so I didn't understand the whole thing. I thought the shantytown on the campus in my town looked cool and I wanted to live there.

[–] 108 72 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Should have just said it was a school shooting and the Texas cops wouldn’t go in at all.

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice 1 points 8 months ago

Are you referencing the one that happened in Texas yesterday? I haven't read up on it. Did they really wait again?

[–] Chemical 65 points 8 months ago (5 children)

This is the new tactic for the dictators, just call a nazi. The Ukrainians, the protestors, my dog, all nazi’s. Projection at its greatest.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Nazi dogs are the worst because they look like good boys but then they're nazis.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

There are no bad dogs. Only bad dog owners.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

now I am wondering what that dog did!

[–] IchNichtenLichten 3 points 8 months ago

Shaking paws or seig heiling? Nobody can say for sure.

[–] Stovetop 5 points 8 months ago

Godwin's Law has spread to all politics.

It's a shame that it's just projection in Netanyahu's case.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Driving too fast: Nazi. Slow: Nazi.

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

I'm afraid this tactic is just not for the dictators but it has been quite widely adopted by the public aswell, especially on social media

[–] [email protected] 60 points 8 months ago (3 children)

and I thought that the Nazi thing was the genocide

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago

Nah, it's whatever hurts Bibi's feefees.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Same here, my friend. You and I both.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

See, we all thought that.

Turns out the problem wasn't that they committed genocide. It's that the genocide was directed at the Jewish people.

And as Netanyahu would have you believe, if you're against Israel, you're against the Jewish people. So that makes you a Nazi.

Flawless logic, clearly.

/s

[–] [email protected] 45 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I didn't think it would ever be possible but Israel managed to completely take the bite out of the word "antisemitism" and comparisons to "Nazi Germany".

[–] [email protected] 34 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Its like the word woke. At this point I can only understand it if I know who's saying it. Anyone related to the IDF? Then antisemetic just means anti genocide.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

At this point I can only understand it if I know who's saying it.

That is the most frustrating thing about discussion these days. Everyone using the same words but speaking an entirely different language.

When you don't agree on the definitions of words anymore, or you don't hold yourself to using them in good faith, then you take discussion off the table. You're no longer debating; now you are just arguing. It's one step away from violence.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Comintern is a word that can be uttered almost without taking thought, whereas Communist International is a phrase over which one is obliged to linger at least momentarily… This accounted not only for the habit of abbreviating whenever possible, but also for the almost exaggerated care that was taken to make every word easily pronounceable.

Because we’re inadvertently building our newspeak, but to wield against the opposition. ‘Woke’ ‘chud’ ‘groomer’ ‘hippie’ lets you hang a label on today’s target of vitriol without understanding. Not understanding the theory, the origins, background, context, etc - we apply the label, the bad person gets chided, now move on to next outrage.

[–] HurlingDurling 44 points 8 months ago

Bibi, if you are looking for Nazi Germany, just look at yourself in the mirror

[–] [email protected] 38 points 8 months ago

Netanyahu can suck it. He's a piece of shit. So are all zionists.

[–] twistypencil 37 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Comparing things to nazi Germany... Wtf

[–] return2ozma 40 points 8 months ago (1 children)

He's delusional.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on Jews and non-Jews to oppose pro-Palestinian protests on campuses across the United States, comparing them to the antisemitism seen in Nazi Germany in the 1930s.

"What's happening in America's college campuses is horrific. Antisemitic mobs have taken over leading universities. They call for the annihilation of Israel, they attack Jewish students, they attack Jewish faculties," he said in a statement posted to X on Wednesday.

[–] WhatAmLemmy 53 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Netanyahu's entire party are fascists, and Einstein called them out for being fascists shortly after WW2 (before they rebranded to their current name).

Playing the antisemitic card is all they have left as they have no leg to stand on when critical thought is applied.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

They also have money, which they're using to its maximum effect.

And there's always the Mossad...

[–] Altofaltception 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Playing the antisemitic card is all they have left as they have no leg to stand on when critical thought is applied.

This has always been the case. It's only becoming apparent to everyone now.

[–] Aceticon 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

What's becoming apparent is how we have quite a lot of extremely racist elites in the West that were posing as anti-racists whilst in their heart of hearths being quite the opposite.

Now that the self-proclaimed representatives of one of their favored etnicities started very overtly commiting Genocide along racial lines against an etnicity they regard as inferior, they provided them with "unwavering support" even after the racist nature of the mass murder was obvious, all the while justifying it with the etnicity of the ones commiting the Genocide.

The only thing more racist than supporting Genocide because of the etnicity of the genociders is to actually directly mass murder people because of their etnicity: if you're supporting people committing even more extreme acts of violence for racist reasons than the Ku-Klux-Klan, you're definitelly not against racism, quite the contrary.

It's amazing just how may leaders have very overtly come out of the closet when it comes to extreme Racism.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

It really feels like an abused kid growing up to be an abuser in the exact same way their parents were…

[–] FuglyDuck 27 points 8 months ago

I'm just going to drop this letter here.(remember that Likud was a consolidation founded by Begin, of all the far-right parties, including herut.)

It's amazing this guy can keep a straight face.

[–] carl_dungeon 21 points 8 months ago (2 children)

All you have to do to get away with being a fucking nazi is call anyone opposing your genocide a nazi apparently.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I mean, generations of building diplomatic ties to the most influential countries in the world is pretty important, too.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago

Every accusation is a confession

[–] lennybird 15 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Without delving into this event I'm going to take a wild guess and say that this is the common trope of framing something that is Anti-Netanyahu or Anti-Israeli or Anti-Zionism (Read: Far-Right Nationalism) or Pro-Civilian — and associate it with antisemitism. Let me edit upon review to see if I can confirm this hypothesis.

Edit: I'd say I'm pretty much right.

https://apnews.com/article/columbia-yale-israel-palestinians-protests-56c3d9d0a278c15ed8e4132a75ea9599

https://www.vox.com/24138285/columbia-campus-israel-palestine-activism-sjp

Times of Israel of course has a convenient anonymous student referring to chants that are curiously not captured on video/audio. If someone has something, then do let me know. I suspect like most things this is a matter of colorizing the protest by the few bad apples who, according to an AP article, were not even students. So you may have actual antisemites trying to hijack the movement; or you might have pro-Israelis trying to tarnish the protest by painting it in a bad light.

Either way, the protests should be judged by the overwhelming narrative projected by the mass at large.

[–] Delusional 4 points 8 months ago

Everyone should know at this point that those in power in Israel are straight up evil people.

[–] Aceticon 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

What's funny is that the last time a nation which claimed to represent a whole etnicity, which was specifically targetting and mass murdering people of another etnicity with such intensity, inhumanity and extreme racist prejudice, and their leader would when their actions were criticized say that it was an insult to the etnicity he claimed to represent, the time was the late 1930s, the etnicity was the Arian Race, the nation was Germany and the leader was called Adolph Hitler.

It kinda looks a lot like the ones who look like a "duck", walk like a "duck" and quack like a "duck" - hence why most people are saying they're "ducks" - are Netanyahu and his countrymen.

[–] SteefLem 3 points 8 months ago

Netay…..netaya….ugh cant say that name. But he seem to have learned from ww2, how to do horrible things that is. Fucking cunt.

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