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One of the Israelis who got shot posted that he was the target of anti-Semitism and ends his message with 'Death to Arabs'

(Untranslated facebook source)

Because if they really were Palestinians, obviously that would've been perfectly A-OK?

at the core of every genocide is some sickeningly arbitrary difference that not even the people enacting the genocide can fully discern. Palestinians are indigenous to the Levant, just like Jews were. they just survived the ethnic cleansing enacted by the romans differently. similarly by both russia, and many Ukrainians telling of the origins of the rus, they originated from Kyiv. back in the 1930s and 40s, the Germans had to invent more and more arbitrary ways to identify Jews because since resettlement in Galitsye (today divided between Germany, Chzechia, Poland, russia, and Ukraine) Jews integrated themselves into the indigenous population (in large part thanks to unprecedented religious tolerance on behalf of the people of Galitsye and later Poland) meaning telling who was and wasn't Jewish was hard to impossible for the German officers responsible for deciding who to kill.

my point is this: arbitrarily killing Palestinians is antisemitic. it runs even a little deeper than simply "Palestinians are semitic, just like me" given that their cultural traditions are shared. it gets into violence against my sister is violence against me. harm against Palestinians is harm against Jews. once there are no more identifiably Palestinian people left to kill, next will come the Jews who aren't identifiably non-Palestinian enough. and who decides who that is? where does the killing stop?

the best way to avoid being killed in a genocide is to prevent genocide from happening. the second best way is to bring ongoing genocides to an end. unfortunately, it is falling to us, the populace, to defend ourselves from the military apparatus of the imperial powers of the globe. a great battle is about to unfold between the forces of good, evil, and indifference, just as it has approximately every 80 years throughout history. part of our aim in thi; battle is to preserve our message that we were here. that there was good in the world even at its worst.

i hope you've read a diary of a young girl by anne frank, and understand its gravity. it breaks my heart that a 13 year old saw all of what i'm seeing and chose to make her death meaningful as a story that passes this tale of resistance and kindness in the face of atrocity to me, but the point is that her voice made it through. so please, don't put her pain to waste. start taking actions you think 80 years from now someone who learns what you did during this time will be proud of, and find inspiring. even if it's something as simple as documenting the things you see, or growing food to share with your neighbors.

do what our ancestors did when faced with these times, plant trees the shade of which your physical body will never rest under

aren't israelis technically Palestinians since the region is called Palestine?

I miss the old days when all racism was bad.

Like all for all other Nazi-style movements, Zionists are going into the next stage of ethno-Fascism: the part were the Zionists start killing other members of the ethnicity they claim to represent for "not being White enough".

(Just go check how they treat Ethiopian Jews is Israel if you have any doubt that they're a white supremacist movement)

I assume if he had shot Palestinians like he thought he did, DeSantis would have given him some sort of award.

Racists are never the sharpest tools in the shed. Most racist man I ever knew was never wronged by anyone except people of his own race, go figure.

"Them wiggly letters and beards, they must be terrorists!"

it will be the year 9999 and we will still be reading about the "Man in Florida"

BTW Free Palestine

Anyone left at the justice department for those hate crime charges? Seems like an open and shut case

Ahhh the ol shoot em all and let God sorry them out technique

Good thing this jackass had terrible aim.

Stand your ground? Anyway, the differences between the brothers, Isaac and Ishmael, are minimal.

Did they condem Hamas though?