Palestine Action Supreme Court Hearing Day 1

21 pointsposted 11 hours ago
by jjgreen

10 Comments

conartist6

10 hours ago

Great read, thank you for your public service

etcetcetcetceta

9 hours ago

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jaggs

8 hours ago

Support for Palestine and against Zionist brutality in Gaza is not automatically anti- semitism, is it?

_DeadFred_

4 hours ago

Wanting tighter controls on H1 visas isn't racist, but every discussion seems to veer super close to racists points.

Wanting tighter border controls isn't racist, but every discussion sure veers super close to racist points.

etcetcetcetceta

4 hours ago

I didn't say it was did I?

But backtracking on this will be perceived as sanctioning antisemites and antisemitic beliefs, the UK has had worsening antisemitism especially within the ranks of the PA and those they choose to align themselves with publicly.

jaggs

4 hours ago

I think you're conflating anti-zionism with anti-semitism. And they're almost certainly not the same thing?

etcetcetcetceta

4 hours ago

I think you're remarkably naive if you came to that conclusion from what I've said, or you want to ignore/downplay the reality of it. There is abundant documentary evidence of these individuals calling for the death of jews, or the persecution of jews, openly in the streets of London. There has been a significant and objective rise in the number of antisemitic attacks here.

Not antizionist, openly antisemitic, are you looking to excuse the latter by means of the former, or blur the lines between the two such that the latter is acceptable.

Criticism of Israel is not inherently antisemitic and is fine, but this is not that.

jaggs

3 hours ago

I don't claim to be expert enough to know everything about the situation, and there have always been those rancid racist, anti-semetic types in every country. But maybe, just maybe, there's a correlation between the current Gaza carnage and any rise in totally unacceptable Jewish hate speech. I'm absolutely not excusing it, it's disgusting, but maybe it's being provoked by the regular shooting of children over there? I think it's all so so sad.

berdfact

3 hours ago

Would you say that about any other group? Maybe the hate against them is for a reason?

jaggs

2 hours ago

Let's call it a day, eh? It's getting a bit boring now. You are right and I am clearly wrong. So I apologise profusely. Have a great day. :)