It sucks to be lied about & slandered, but at this point it really is a badge of honor to have genocide supporters calling you out because you don’t support murdering the kids that they traumatized. I know the threats & damage are real though. All the pro-genociders are doing though is exposing themselves for how dishonest they really are. Them calling Ms. Rachel a antisemite will only wake a bunch more people up to their lies & propaganda. The ones that believe it are blinded by their own bigotry.
It does more than that. It tarnishes the believability of all accusations of antisemitism, even those made by reasonable people about actual antisemitism.
It also proactively fuels antisemitism by conflating Israel with Jews more broadly. Because of rhetoric like this, some subset of people who are outraged at Israel l’s actions will now direct that outrage at Jews more broadly.
It sucks to be lied about & slandered, but at this point it really is a badge of honor to have genocide supporters calling you out because you don’t support murdering the kids that they traumatized. I know the threats & damage are real though. All the pro-genociders are doing though is exposing themselves for how dishonest they really are. Them calling Ms. Rachel a antisemite will only wake a bunch more people up to their lies & propaganda. The ones that believe it are blinded by their own bigotry.
It does more than that. It tarnishes the believability of all accusations of antisemitism, even those made by reasonable people about actual antisemitism.
It also proactively fuels antisemitism by conflating Israel with Jews more broadly. Because of rhetoric like this, some subset of people who are outraged at Israel l’s actions will now direct that outrage at Jews more broadly.
Moreover, Palestinians have semitic DNA.