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If You're Still Supporting Israel In 2025, There's Something Wrong With You As A Person
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this post was submitted on 19 Jul 2025
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They're not calling for more human deaths, they're calling for the death of the STATE of Israel. If a government is perpetuating genocide it is certainly reasonable to wish for the dismantling of that government entity.
I mean sure, but they always had the option of using language that doesn't contain that ambiguity.
Fuck your language, they've been slaughtering babies for two years. Death to the genocidal state, death to the IDF, death to apartheid. From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!
@skisnow is probably just trying to silence voices that they don't want heard, @3abas
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And you "always had the option" of being culturally sensitive @skisnow
I gather that "death to" comes about in translation to English from Arabic/Islamic cultures.
A state or organisation is not alive. It can't "die". The "death" therefore must be figurative. "Death to America" is not the same as "Death to Americans", for example. "Death to Israel" and "Death to the IDF" are not calls to harm a living being.
https://mondoweiss.net/2023/11/are-israelis-jews-returning-to-jewish-minority-life/
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And it's a terrible example, because it also has been used before now by supporters of terrorist attacks on US civilians.
LOL
If you're determined to take offence @skisnow then I guess nobody can stop you.
I'm not taking offense, I'm just saying that if you use inflammatory phrasing you can't turn around and surprised pikachu face when some people take it the "wrong" way.
Maybe i don't care about the feelings of genociders. You don't waste time arguing with pedophiles about the virtue of raping kids.
You use violence
Such intolerance is much of the problem @skisnow
Reacting within our narrow framework, neglecting to account for the vagaries of translation.
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#Israel
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I'm on mastodon @skisnow
Mastodon users can follow hashtags. Not using them is considered impolite.
So is failing to add alt text to images.
See? You've learned something. Your narrow framework is not the whole world.
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