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   Itamar Turner-Trauring (itamarst@better.boston)'s status on Friday, 03-May-2024 09:01:51 JST Itamar Turner-Trauring

   1/ So apparently my representative in Congress, Katherine Clark, thinks that I, a Jew who is also a citizen of Israel, am an antisemite. Can't really express how angry I am right now.

   Specifically, I'm an antisemite If I point out that:

   - Israel has a segregated school system that massively underfunds Arab citizens, by design.

   - Jews can't marry non-Jews in Israel (I couldn't have married my now-wife there!).

   - Israel has an apartheid system in the occupied territories.

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     Itamar Turner-Trauring (itamarst@better.boston)'s status on Friday, 03-May-2024 09:11:59 JST Itamar Turner-Trauring

     in reply to

     2/ - The anthem explicitly omits non-Jews.

     - All that ethnic cleansing when Israel was started? Can't mention that.

     - The Jewish Israeli town (segregation! it's the norm!) I grew up in banned Arabs from their country club pool: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kokhav_Ya%27ir

     - The town was named after the founder of a Jewish freedom fighting/terrorist group (depends who you ask), who in 1941 tried to cut a deal with the Nazis during WW2 against the British. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avraham_Stern