Israeli group sues Canadian human rights museum over 'Nakba' exhibit
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/legal-action-looms-over-nakba-portrayal-at-cmhr-in-winnipeg
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/legal-action-looms-over-nakba-portrayal-at-cmhr-in-winnipeg
28 Comments
floofloof@lemmy.ca · 87 pts · 121d
The one-sided narrative is what we were all fed for three quarters of a century. Now they're just furious that the other side of the story is becoming more widely known. If Israel hadn't so obviously decided on a policy of genocide towards Palestinians, it might have stood a better chance of continuing to control the narrative. But we've seen Israel committing the most appalling torture and mass slaughter every day for years and celebrating it, despite it also killing as many journalists as it can to prevent the truth being told. Our understanding of the story is rebalancing, and Israel's propagandists hate that.
Vergissmeinnicht@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 119d
And they're helping with publicity because apparently they haven't heard of the Streisand effect.
BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca · 68 pts · 121d
The term antisemitic is really losing all meaning at this point. Which is fucked up.
MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca · 40 pts · 121d
The irony is, Palestinians are semite.
theacharnian@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 120d
There are no Semitic people only Semitic languages. Saying that Arabs are Semitic is a category error.
Cethin@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 119d
True, but nobody is then. Arabic is a Semitic language.
theacharnian@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 119d
Two things are true at once:
Otherwise, what, antisemism is the hostility towards speakers of Semitic languages? That's just silly.
Cethin@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 119d
That's the origin. It is silly, I agree.
I'm not arguing that it doesn't mean Jews now. I'm just saying it's stupid.
theacharnian@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 119d
"Um achtchually" incoming.
The origin of the word "antisemitism" is not about languages. It is about race. It is based on 1770s Biblical racial terminology that broke up all humanity according to the three sons of Noah: Shem (-ites: Jews, Arabs, etc) , Ham (-ites: Africans), Japheth (-ites: Europeans, Persians).
A few decades later, a French fuckface called Ernest Renan creates a whole story about how Semites are inferior to Aryans/Japhthites and even writes a very influential book about how Jesus was born a Semite Jew but perfected himself to become an Aryan Christian.
So at this point, the term "semites" has a very clear racist sense to it. And in response to that Moritz Steinschneider, an Austrian Jew invents the word "antisemitism" in
Then (with various intermediates) comes a German fuckface, Wilhelm Marr, who not only popularises the conflation of Semites with Jews but also proudly declares Antisemitism as an moral impertative to save Germany from the Jews and
That's the story. The term originally was a bullshit racial category that happened to have some linguistic usefulness that we still retain.
Cethin@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 119d
Oh, damn. Huh. TIL. Who knew that "race science" didn't have enough bullshit for some people, and they felt the need to invent all kinds of new garbage for it?
Hello_there@fedia.io · 28 pts · 121d
Netanyahu is antisemitic. You know, for getting 80% of the world to hate Israel.
amorangi@lemmy.nz · 23 pts · 121d
He's antisemitic in that he deliberately conflates anti-zionism with antisemitism. This is tarring non-zionist jews, thus is antisemitic in and of itself.
amorangi@lemmy.nz · 18 pts · 121d
Antisemitic used to mean people who didn't like jews. Now it means people the jews don't like.
Rat_in_a_hat@lemmy.ca · 14 pts · 121d
People the Zionists* don't like. Plenty of Christian Evangelicals also using it because they want the end of times to come about.
stoly@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 121d
Extra points earned if you cause a Zionist to rage by mentioning that Arabs are Semites.
binux@sh.itjust.works · 65 pts · 121d
Cancer is suing the chemotherapy museum, who would have thought.
phoenixz@lemmy.ca · 18 pts · 121d
I don't think I've ever seen this explained so eloquently
theacharnian@lemmy.ca · 25 pts · 120d
So to be clear, this is an Israeli legal group, not a Canadian Jewish legal group. In fact it is a group that has well known ties to the Israeli government and Israeli intelligence, and whose founder has bragged that they can do what the government cannot do because of political restraints and international treaties.
This isn't about members of the public having any kind of legitimate grievance, this is about lawfare.
phoenixz@lemmy.ca · 21 pts · 121d
Oh really now? Are they really?
weew@lemmy.ca · 12 pts · 121d
Yeah, the "genocide is bad" side. Such biased and unfair reporting
BinzyBoi@piefed.ca · 16 pts · 121d
grte@lemmy.ca · 28 pts · 121d
Israel has a perverse incentive to not strongly resist antisemitism. Part of its national sales pitch is that it's the only safe place for Jews. The existence of Jewish communities outside of Israel that are frankly much safer than that being led by the sorts of people leading Israel flies in the face of the pitch. Rising antisemitism in our own countries rebalances the risk in that equation more towards Israel's favour.
Malyca@lemmy.zip · 12 pts · 121d
They're counting on it to drive more Jews to move to the "safety" of Israel.
BCsven@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 121d
They were granted a get out of jail free card, for a long time.
I made a comment on a German forum about how horrible Israel has been and it got taken down per German anti-antisemitic laws.
SourGumGum@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 120d
Auli@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 121d
Aren't Israelis the worst an it Semites.
Aralakh@lemmy.ca · 15 pts · 121d
archive link
Make it make sense, Israel shouldn't exist for the exact reason.
texture@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 121d
hey prominent legal organization, get absolutely f'd
melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 119d
Until they stop "genociding" they should keep their hypocritical mouths closed. Human rights indeed.
Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 115d
They should stop and also provide generations of reparations to every Palestinian forced to flee.