The slogan isn’t calling for a genocide, it’s calling for freedom for Palestinians. That isn’t anti-Semitic. It’s just bad faith to conflate Palestinian human rights with a genocide against Israelis. Human rights aren’t a zero-sum game, everyone can have them.

[+] Ilovethebomb -7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Sorry, but you're wrong there. The translation tames things a bit, but the original slogan, along with the Hamas charter it's drawn from, call for the outright extermination of Israel.

[–] cloventt 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And Hamas are miserable anti-Semitic goons that are an armed minority and do not represent the interests of most Palestinians.

Interestingly the phrase was originally used by Likud in 1977 in an election charter: “between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty”. If this phrase is a call to genocide the knife cuts both ways.

[–] Ilovethebomb -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Doesn't make it right for anyone to say though.

[–] cloventt 1 points 1 year ago

Personally, I don't use it, because I've heard from some Jewish people I know that they find it offensive or alienating. But for me I'm not bothered with pro-Palestinian activists using it either.

[–] CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago

Saying that the country of Israel should not exist is not antisemitic.