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@ArneBab @Morgunin

as a Jew its unbelievably offensive to see Germans make Palestinians in Gaza, who are under seige, drained of all life sources, undergoing gradual genocide, 700 murdered in the past two days at the hands of one of the world's most technologically advanced militaries using precision weapons, out to be antisemitic. you are legitimizing a situation that resembles the Warsaw Ghetto in every capacity, in the name of Jews. get it right -- you stand on the side of Zionists, not Jews. if you aren't anti-semitic, you will be very, very careful to make sure to choose this wording in the future, especially as a German. anti-Zionist Jews are older than Israel itself. Yes, we had political orgs before the establishment of Israel, study the Bund and learn some history if you want to talk and these kinds of posts "on behalf of jews". All I see here is the use of Jewry by Germans to sustain your imperial, colonial ambitions in the world, and there is no doubt Fanon was correct when he said that the Holocaust was colonialism at home. It was no worse than what you did in Namibia. we are simply white, and thus easier for you to sympathize with, believe it or not.

antisemitism is orientalism applied to Jews. Very few Palestinians are antisemitic; its primarily those who adhere to the pan-Levantine espoused by the SSNP, which is marginal in Palestine at best. Many may be racist towards Jews, but that is a colonizer/colonized relation.

I have been doing hacker labs in Palestine since 2012. Palestinians suffer under the most extreme police state imagineable. I have been strip searched, beat and restrained by IDF officers in Hebron, and I have a white shield -- its nothing like the literal torture, rape and systematic abuse my Palestinian comrades regularly experience. the IDF sends a tank called the skunk on patrol every friday, that hoses down entire villages with a material that smells like rotten eggs and sewage, and takes weeks to go away. Israelis experience no such thing.

I have been teaching at a cultural center in Nablus for a decade, that is funded primarily by Hamas' Zakat Committees. they know I'm a Jew, and have only ever been welcoming to me. I stay there with them, I cook with them, I hang out and smoke shisha with them. whenever I've fallen on hard times, they are the first to reach out to me. they are not anti-semitic, they are resisting actual genocide.