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More nonsense.  The weaponisation of anti semitism is working a treat -
I don't want this to be political or personal. I'm no supporter of Israel's government or their conduct in the war. I don't want to silence protest. But this really is a thoughtless response, and given that I provoked it I should explain my thinking. I note that my comment has so far received four downvotes and no upvotes (and @Colorblindjames has got an upvote for his), which suggests that members of this forum tend to disagree with me. I invite anyone who does to get in touch - I have my own biases and am always learning. But I think there is something about Kneecap's social media output that is profoundly illiberal. It is possible to be pro-Palestinian and also wrong.  Here are a few tweets from the last 10 days that I think present an issue:  I've got a few issues with this image, but let's just take the main one. This picture features the six-pointed star that is widely seen as a symbol of the Jews, blended with a Nazi swastika. I think it would be completely wrong to distort the Israeli flag in this way, but this is not the Israeli flag. This would be a powerful political image without the star, but with it a line has obviously been crossed. Really this couldn't be much clearer. Google Holocaust inversion.   Firstly, these signs do or did exist and they're really grim. From what I can see they were created by an Israeli campaigning organisation - so by Israelis - and obviously not by the state of Israel, and the image is of people walking (fleeing is probably the more accurate word). I don't think it's weird to consider accuracy important, but my main issue isn't with that.  On successive days Kneecap described Israel as "the most depraved regime on earth" and "the most evil force on earth". They may consider Israel's government to be reprehensible, repulsive. I wouldn't have an issue with them saying so. But literally as I type mass graves are being excavated in Syria, Iran is ruled by Islamist extremists who murder women for showing their hair and pour billions into genocidal militias, a Saudi regime that led a war in Yemen that killed (estimates vary) around 400,000 people has used the death penalty to execute more than 300 this year. Sadly I could go on. So what is it about the world's only Jewish state, I wonder, that makes them "the most evil" or "the most depraved" on earth?  I'm sure I could find much more and worse if I did a deeper trawl. Like I say, I think they regularly cross the line and that their social media activity (I've no idea what they say at their concerts) should set off alarm bells among all people who consider themselves liberal/considerate/anti-racist, which I hope includes most of us on this forum.  I'm sorry to have derailed this thread. Now I'm off to see Paul McCartney. -
What a load of old nonsense. It’s clearly genocide. It was always the plan once Hamas gave them the excuse. Have you seen the pre and post bombing pictures of Rafa? Have a look and come up with an reason for such destructionÂ
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