A Public Service Announcement Concerning The Recent Board Debate Over Our “Ally” Israel:

Careful, mate, I got a warning for this type of thing last week.

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Careful, mate, I got a warning for this type of thing last week.

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Same.

you can absolutely criticize the israeli government.

But a lot anti-israel arguments jump the line to antisemitism extremely fast.

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Careful, mate, I got a warning for this type of thing last week.

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I received such a warning too and this is why I believe this is a much needed discussion.

With that in mind, I want to state for the record that I have been an active participant in some form of online political forums since the old dial-up days and I genuinely believe this forum is one of the best freewheeling political discussion forums on the intratubes.

I further am thankful to be a small part of this community and I certainly I do not seek to run afoul of TOS.

I will thus make every effort to respect the discretionary judgment of the moderators who Chicken has appointed to monitor this site as I am quite sure that is a thankless task.

So I hope this topic is thus received in the spirit of open and frank discussion in which it is intended.

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I received such a warning too

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Interesting.

So mods are showing their bias?

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What do you mean by “the state of Israel has to go”?

Why are you singling out the state of Israel?

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At first, I thought we’re giving him the Cathy Newman treatment and illustrating the leap that the OP is raising.

Then, I finally saw the little sign in the pic.

My guess is that the meme’s message drowned out that detail. I agree with the meme, but not the sign.

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There are very many nation states that were created by mandate after the world wars, with territory lines drawn and redrawn, some completely created out of whole cloth, and many with subsequent sectarian violence, some that have been subdivided, and some that no longer exist.

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This historical reality is an under discussed aspect of the fraught political landscape of the modern Middle East and should be at the forefront of any knowledgeable discussion on the matter.

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I agree with the meme, but not the sign.

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Me too.

The whole point of the meme is to point out that criticism of Israel is not ipso-facto antisemitic.

Yet for clarification, I want to emphasize that I believe Israel has the right to exist and in no way do I mean to endorse the view that Israel should be eradicated.

We are Israel's best friend.
They are not always our best friend.

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uh, why do you hate Jesus? The religious Jews (Judaism) dont believe that the state of Israel (Zionists) can exist, until the Messiah has returned. So the ultra-Jew in your photo is denigrating Jesus as the Messiah, and wanting the state of Israel disbanded. Because it is a mockery of the "one true religion" So criticizing Israel in this context is anti-Christendom

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That’s a pretty niche and select group. I would wager that the vast majority of those who want the destruction of the state of Israel aren’t a part of that group.

And for the record, I am aware that there are vile anti-Christian Jewish zealots and that a large group of them reside in Israel and Jerusalem.

Especially during periods of sectarian violence, the anti-Christian views and actions get quite excessive towards Christian pilgrims to the Holy Land.