• Aceticon@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Earlier in Israel’s Genocide that’s exactly the way his spokesperson used the “antisemitism” accusation in a White House press conference so it makes sense to conclude that’s still exactly how Biden and his Adminstration use it.

    Edit: I was a bit incorrect. She’s been doing it by saying that using “from the river to the sea” is antisemitic up until the point in a briefing in December when she was confronted with how Netanyahu’s son himself had used that sentence and “does that mean he is an antisemite”, by which point she fumbled and suddenly discovered they were “out of time”.

    Also at least until that point (in mid December) the Biden Administration would talk about “antisemitism in demonstrations” because people had chanted “From the river to the sea, Palestine shall be free”.

    It wasn’t in “a” White House Press Conference, it was in multiple White House Press Conferences and went on at least until mid December and that specific question from a journalist of “so would you say Netanyahu’s son is antisemite”, so already well into the point when Israel had already murdered tens of thousands of Palestinians including over 10 thousand children.

    Notice how “from the river to the sea” has no meaning in the Jewish Religion, so it’s entirelly about Israel, so things which were about Israel and not about the Jewish Religion were being deemed “antisemitism” by this Administration.