1:21 video shows the scale of the protest.

Shulamit Ron, Demonstrator: “We hope the world hears us: the people of Israel are not the government of Israel. We don’t agree with the policy; we don’t agree with the way they behave; and we want to have a different future.”

Roi Tzohar, Demonstrator: “The Israeli people are hostages to their right-wing government. The people of Gaza are hostages to Hamas. And, basically, there has to be a way to overcome that and to stop the fighting and the killing. This [demonstration?] is to give everybody hope.”

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    All of you antisemites should be ashamed of yourselves! I’m Jewish, so I can say it though.

    Fuck Netanyahu and fuck this genocidal war

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      5 months ago

      Your comment just seems like a good one to add this to. It is not any form of commentary on you or you comment

      So the word Semite refers to pretty much everyone who lived in the now middle east. It is a pretty old and mostly outdated word. That was surprising enough created by some white Europeans, who were busy categorizing the world from their safe office of their learned institutions.

      Here is a map of the languages that are considered semitic as a rough idea the people that could fall under this term

      Obviously antisemitism is used to refer to Jewish people, though it is really being used incorrectly. It should be used in a way that someone hates both Jew and Arabs, and a few other groups too.

      Anyway you all have a little bit of useless knowledge.

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      I’m Jewish, so I can say it though?

      Do you think pointing out a genocide is like the N word or something?

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        I think they were being sarcastic, playing with the criticizing Israel’s government = antisemitism nonsense

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          Ah ok, you know it’s hard catching sarcasm when the internet is full of crazy people. That’s why /s exists. Specially hard when this is an actual card played by pro-israel jews.