Is this anti-semitism?

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fwiw, tho it's totally irrelevant to this thread, i'm in favor of the US cutting funding as well. i don't think israel needs it and i think it hampers their ability to make alliances w/ other major powers throughout the world. if the US sees no value in the "special relationship" (and i don't think Obama does) then there's no reason to keep it going.

Mordy, Monday, 28 July 2014 18:02 (nine years ago) link

'you guys' = israel. though at least you're putting yr dismissing all criticism of israel as anti-semitic in the right thread (along w/ four or five others currently i'm sure).

balls, Monday, 28 July 2014 18:07 (nine years ago) link

all criticism of israel. lol. calling ppl "baby killers," "bibi flunkies," insinuating that my heart isn't in the county I was born and to which I'm a citizen but some other country, "you guys," I don't have to dismiss your criticism as anti-semitic. it's self-evidently so. i wouldn't be surprised if you're even making LBI uncomfortable w/ the way you're talking.

Mordy, Monday, 28 July 2014 18:08 (nine years ago) link

lol so pointing out someone parrots likud talking points is 'self evidently' anti-semitic? criticising israel deliberately targeting and killing of children is 'self evidently' anti-semitic? criticising glib dismissals of these criticisms as unserious is 'self evidently' anti-semitic? pointing out that someone who repeatedly and routinely declares he is more sympathetic towards and identifies more w/ the interests of 'some other country' than the country in which he was born is 'self evidently' anti-semitic? were pro-mussolini italian-americans in the thirties secretly actually jewish? identifying someone as a member of a group they routinely identify themselves as a member of is 'self evidently' anti-semitic? if i call rudy giuliani a yankees fan and a republican and hence two times a scumbag is that double 'self evidently' anti-semitic? do you seriously classify killing children and carrying water for bibi as central to the jewish identity?

balls, Monday, 28 July 2014 18:19 (nine years ago) link

routinely declares he is more sympathetic towards and identifies more w/ the interests of 'some other country' than the country in which he was born

I don't think Mordy does this fwiw, this is going too far

Οὖτις, Monday, 28 July 2014 18:23 (nine years ago) link

lol sorry for insinuating the mordy might be pro-israel or a zionist, obv he's a detached observer w/ no rooting interests, obv when the issue of american funding of israel came up his first thought wasn't how it affected israel.

balls, Monday, 28 July 2014 18:30 (nine years ago) link

saying someone identifies more with the interests of another country than the one they hold citizenship in/live in is p close to calling someone a traitor just wtf is that really necessary; there is absolutely a history of that tactic being used to anti-semitic ends

Οὖτις, Monday, 28 July 2014 18:32 (nine years ago) link

like maybe calm down and take a deep breath here

Οὖτις, Monday, 28 July 2014 18:33 (nine years ago) link

dnftt

Lewis - J'Agour (crüt), Monday, 28 July 2014 18:33 (nine years ago) link

obv when there was talk of america intervening in syria last year and mordy was basing his arguments on how it affected israel he was doing a character, y'know like imus, that's not how he actually thinks and feels. no way is israel the prism thru which that guy views the middle east.

xp i don't think he's a traitor. this is america, short of him endorsing acts of war or espionage against this country he's not a traitor (o wait). but for him to act after all these years like he doesn't have any sympathies w/ israel, that he hasn't parrotted likud propaganda, that he didn't just the other day declare the idf the most honest and accurate source of what's going on in the conflict, and that he didn't say hamas posting lies about israel on facebook was worthy of a military response, to call this out as bullshit isn't 'self evidently' anti-semitic. maybe i'm wrong though. maybe killing children is a central part of the jewish identity. suspect very much though that someone who said or believed this would actually be 'self evidently' anti-semitic though. unless they're mordy.

balls, Monday, 28 July 2014 18:42 (nine years ago) link

declare the idf the most honest and accurate source of what's going on in the conflict, and that he didn't say hamas posting lies about israel on facebook was worthy of a military response,

these are misrepresentations/innacurate (unless I missed some posts but I don't think I did)

Οὖτις, Monday, 28 July 2014 18:51 (nine years ago) link

in other news my man, Wallace Shawn:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxDYiBls99w

Οὖτις, Monday, 28 July 2014 18:53 (nine years ago) link

it's all inaccuracies. i never claimed i don't have any sympathies w/ israel, i don't "parrot" likud propaganda, i never said the idf is the most honest and accurate source of what's going on (i did suggest that in past conflicts their fatality numbers have turned out to be closest to reality after the war), i never said that hamas posting lies about israel on fb was worthy of a military response (??? who the fuck knows where balls' got this one from)

Mordy, Monday, 28 July 2014 18:54 (nine years ago) link

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― Mordy

Obviously we won't know anything for sure probably for months until all the facts come out. This is worth looking at:

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2014/07/half-of-dead-in-gaza-are-terrorists.html#.U9KbsBZ1ZfM

As well as this from Cast Lead in 2009:
http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_print=1&x_context=7&x_issue=76&x_article=1952

― Mordy, Friday, July 25, 2014 2:04 PM (3 days ago)

it turned out that in 2009 idf had the most accurate numbers after the conflict had ended

― Mordy, Sunday, July 27, 2014 2:41 PM (Yesterday)

balls, Monday, 28 July 2014 18:57 (nine years ago) link

I think it's bizarre to equate being pro-Mussolini with being pro-Israel, inasmuch as Mussolini was literally on the opposite side of a war with us.

'arry Goldman (Hurting 2), Monday, 28 July 2014 18:58 (nine years ago) link

"i did suggest that in past conflicts their fatality numbers have turned out to be closest to reality after the war" < wow! i said what i said i said. good job, balls.

Mordy, Monday, 28 July 2014 18:58 (nine years ago) link

now maybe find me this one? "that he didn't say hamas posting lies about israel on facebook was worthy of a military response"

Mordy, Monday, 28 July 2014 18:59 (nine years ago) link

rolling mena thread, find it yrself

balls, Monday, 28 July 2014 19:00 (nine years ago) link

gfy :)

Mordy, Monday, 28 July 2014 19:01 (nine years ago) link

btw that post where you said what you said you said was when someone asked you if you really thought idf was the most accurate source of information on the conflict (after posting idf propaganda about how actually all those ppl they're killing? terrorists. you can tell cuz they're palestinian). doesn't read like a denial to me!

balls, Monday, 28 July 2014 19:02 (nine years ago) link

gotcha

Mordy, Monday, 28 July 2014 19:02 (nine years ago) link

i mean maybe it's batshit or self evidently anti-semitic but i'd consider posting a tweet from idf's twitter account as a rebuttal to a claim that they're killing children parroting idf.

balls, Monday, 28 July 2014 19:04 (nine years ago) link

ok cool

Mordy, Monday, 28 July 2014 19:04 (nine years ago) link

i mean if i'm distracting you from getting back to pretending some israeli bank is the real victim here when you think about it i do apologize.

balls, Monday, 28 July 2014 19:05 (nine years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fR7EAdPUqvQ

Josh in Chicago, Monday, 28 July 2014 19:05 (nine years ago) link

great pinky showed up

balls, Monday, 28 July 2014 19:08 (nine years ago) link

My bad, I meant that for the Minecraft thread.

Josh in Chicago, Monday, 28 July 2014 19:09 (nine years ago) link

In hopefully less incendiary anti-Semitism news, we ate at a sandwich shop in Colorado that, along with the usual, served a pastrami and cheese sandwich called the Jewish. Which is weird on several different levels.

Josh in Chicago, Monday, 28 July 2014 19:37 (nine years ago) link

"could you make mine extra-Jewy please"

Οὖτις, Monday, 28 July 2014 19:51 (nine years ago) link

Is it weird to call a sub "The Italian"?

'arry Goldman (Hurting 2), Monday, 28 July 2014 21:51 (nine years ago) link

ayyyyy! boshk!

love is how's life tonight (how's life), Monday, 28 July 2014 21:52 (nine years ago) link

But an Italian sub is called that because it was made popular by Italian immigrants (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine_sandwich). The Jewish (which does not exist, as such, but let's go with the name), not so much. Not least because it is brazenly not Kosher.

Josh in Chicago, Monday, 28 July 2014 22:36 (nine years ago) link

eating a Jewish person breaks kosher anyway tbf

Serious Men raised by the Issues Movement (darraghmac), Monday, 28 July 2014 22:38 (nine years ago) link

I was trying to think of other situations where the descriptive adjective (Jewish) is not the same as the identifying noun (Jew) but couldn't think of any

Οὖτις, Monday, 28 July 2014 23:01 (nine years ago) link

Jew eat?

Orson Wellies (in orbit), Monday, 28 July 2014 23:15 (nine years ago) link

tbf if I saw a sandwich called The Jew I would probably be a little freaked out

Οὖτις, Monday, 28 July 2014 23:16 (nine years ago) link

The Jewish is just comically inept

Οὖτις, Monday, 28 July 2014 23:17 (nine years ago) link

I had typed eating a Jew but that sounded coarse and idk not good then I changed it to eating a Jewish person and fuck me if it didn't sound delicious

Serious Men raised by the Issues Movement (darraghmac), Monday, 28 July 2014 23:20 (nine years ago) link

that the case w/ most nationalities or ethnicities that don't end in 'n' right? arabic vs arab, french vs frenchman, white vs whitey. i've heard use of 'blacks' as a noun but in the singular it's pretty uncommon. seems like in english though overwhelmingly the descriptive adjective and the identifying noun both end in 'n' and are the same. i'm trying to think of examples where they aren't the same or conversely whey they (or more accurately the descriptive) don't end in 'n' and they are the same.

balls, Monday, 28 July 2014 23:27 (nine years ago) link

tom green's bum was on the Swede, not the Swedish

David Schramm (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 28 July 2014 23:34 (nine years ago) link

Mordy doesn't parrot propaganda, when he makes points he leaves spaces for disagreement and implies question marks all over (as far as I can see anyway, don't know if you would agree Mordy?) which is so vastly better than 99% of what yr gonna get in online chat about the Israel Palestine conflict between members of the public

cardamon, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 18:18 (nine years ago) link

Could we also basically remember that whatever we all think of each other, no-one on this thread is actually doing the things, we're all just commentating on the things

cardamon, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 18:19 (nine years ago) link

just saw a harrowing video of three guys emerging from a tunnel carrying guns

thank goodness there are children being bombed in response

TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 29 July 2014 22:09 (nine years ago) link

hi

card (am0n), Tuesday, 29 July 2014 22:11 (nine years ago) link

that the same video in which they emerged to kill a soldier?

Serious Men raised by the Issues Movement (darraghmac), Tuesday, 29 July 2014 22:16 (nine years ago) link

Killing soldiers? Isn't that a war crime?

brimming with misplaced confidence (Phil D.), Tuesday, 29 July 2014 22:17 (nine years ago) link

xxp card (am0n) otm

cardamon, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 22:19 (nine years ago) link

you got me man I'm in here to cheer on the deaths of innocents too, hurrah for ilx

Serious Men raised by the Issues Movement (darraghmac), Tuesday, 29 July 2014 22:20 (nine years ago) link

maybe? i didn't see the end. the narrator said they went on to attack a military installation of some kind. hopefully there wasn't a school in the way!

xpost lol

TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 29 July 2014 22:20 (nine years ago) link

dear israel: get a fucking grip on yourself

TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 29 July 2014 22:22 (nine years ago) link


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