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Starmer urges Iran to 'refrain from attacking Israel' in 'rare' phone call with country's president | World News (news.sky.com)

submitted 4 months ago by sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al to c/uk_politics@feddit.uk

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So Israel break international law and then Starmer asks Iran to just suck it up, saying it will put the ceasefire in jeopardy, ignoring the fact that Israel just assassinated the lead negotiator. What in the bloody fuck?

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[–] Streamwave@feddit.uk -4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I've noticed that this sort of rank antisemitism is pretty commonplace on Lemmy, unfortunately.

https://www.worldjewishcongress.org/en/news/antisemitism-defined-why-drawing-comparisons-of-contemporary-israeli-policy-to-the-nazis-is-antisemitic

[–] FelixCress@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

By "antisemitism" you mean opposing Nazi regime commiting genocide?

[–] Streamwave@feddit.uk -3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

No, I mean comparing the State of Israel to the Nazis.

The World Jewish Congress link explains why that’s antisemitic. You should read it so you can work on overcoming your own bigotries.

[–] FelixCress@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

[–] Streamwave@feddit.uk 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You realise that cartoon came from a far-right Neo-Nazi forum, right?

And you realise what that does to this conversation?

[–] FelixCress@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

You realise that you are implying that the commander of Ghetto Uprising, Marek Edelman, is a Nazi, right?

You also realise that number of holocaust survivors directly compare Israel regime to the nazis and genocide of Palestinians under Nazi Israeli government to their own suffering under Nazi German government?

[–] whenyellowstonehasitsday@fedia.io 2 points 4 months ago

Any alleged wrongdoings on Israel’s part

"alleged wrongdoings" when there's video evidence

no equivalence between [potential Israeli human rights abuses] and the denial of paid work, Jew-baiting, herding into ghettos, incarceration, disease and starvation

"potential human rights abuses"

incarceration, disease and starvation is literally ongoing because of israel's actions

The Israeli–Palestinian conflict is a territorial and political one

attempted genocide is just a territorial and political issue?

the best case scenario here is that this was just a really clumsy appeal to authority on your behalf