“Israel’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has ordered preparations for the annexation of the occupied West Bank ahead of US President-elect Donald Trump taking office in January 2025.”
“Israel’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has ordered preparations for the annexation of the occupied West Bank ahead of US President-elect Donald Trump taking office in January 2025.”
I am absolutely not a Zionist, but this is kind of a shitty thing to say.
https://www.oed.com/dictionary/jew-york_n?tl=true
The answer to “if you want to live in Zion” is “too bad.”
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I didn’t say that it was a conspiracy theory. I said suggesting that New York is “Zion” just because of its Jewish population is a bad thing to say and I showed you the reason why.
I’m a Jew. I’m a even mod of c/Jewish.
Nice try though.
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Okay, well I’m sorry I wasn’t clear, but the point is that suggesting New York is Zion for Jews when Christians exponentially outnumber them plays into conspiracy theory nonsense whether or not you intended it that way.
Maybe you don’t care you were saying something that could be taken as offensive by Jewish people, but it could.
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I told you how what you are saying could be offensive to Jews. Either you care or you don’t. Apparently you don’t.
And I’m not very impressed with your ancestry. Let me know when someone looks at you and asks you why you support Israel because of your stereotypically Jewish features. Let me know when you walk by someone and they give a Nazi salute. And definitely tell me about the time when you were in high school and someone stole a book you were reading, drew a swastika on every page, then put it back in your backpack later that day.
Your little ‘hevenu shalom alecheim’ at the end there does not change the fact that what you said can be construed as offensive. This is some “I can tell racist jokes because my grandfather was half-black” territory.
So what? You have a personal responsibility for being offended. It’s not everybody else’s job to walk on eggshells to avoid offending you. If you go looking for things people have said that can offend you, you’re gonna have a shitty time.
Try making an effort to interpret people in the best possible way, and you’ll have a much better time, with much fewer people being perceived as “going after you”.
I am telling you right now, as a moderator, that I will not tolerate offensive comments from you again. I’m not going to argue with you on the nature of being offensive. We have a very clear civility rule. I don’t think it is wise for you to continue this conversation, but I will definitely take a look at other comments of yours in World News and also take note of you in the future.
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Jesus Christ. You don’t know the difference between someone doing a Nazi salute at a German “occasionally” when abroad and someone in the U.S. doing it to a Jew in the U.S.? And having it happen multiple times in my life? Really? Are you really comparing those two things?
Because that’s even more fucking offensive.
Especially since you ignored literally everything else I said so you could whine about how you’re treated as badly as Jews because you’re German.
I didn’t even get past that part because you are coming from such a ridiculous position of privilege that you don’t even comprehend the idea of what it is like to be on the receiving end of bigotry.
You need to open your eyes.
And since I have tried to be nice about this so far, I will be blunt: I will not tolerate these sort of offensive comments from you any longer. It’s up to you whether or not you want to keep poking the bear here.
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