Until they stop “genociding” they should keep their hypocritical mouths closed. Human rights indeed.
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.
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.
Now they’re just furious that the other side of the story is becoming more widely known.
And they’re helping with publicity because apparently they haven’t heard of the Streisand effect.
Cancer is suing the chemotherapy museum, who would have thought.
The term antisemitic is really losing all meaning at this point. Which is fucked up.
The irony is, Palestinians are semite.
There are no Semitic people only Semitic languages. Saying that Arabs are Semitic is a category error.
True, but nobody is then. Arabic is a Semitic language.
Two things are true at once:
- no people is Semitic (because the word applies to languages not to peoples)
- antisemitism is the hostility towards Jews as Jews (because words have meaning beyond their etymology, just like homophobia does not imply being scared of homosexuals)
Otherwise, what, antisemism is the hostility towards speakers of Semitic languages? That’s just silly.
Otherwise, what, antisemism is the hostility towards speakers of Semitic languages? That’s just silly.
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.
“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
the phrase “antisemitische Vorurteile” (antisemitic prejudices). Steinschneider used this phrase to characterise the French philosopher Ernest Renan’s false ideas about how ‘Semitic races’ were inferior to ‘Aryan races’". (src)
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
in 1879 founded the League of Antisemites (Antisemiten-Liga), the first German organization committed specifically to combating the alleged threat to Germany posed by the Jews and advocating their forced removal from the country.
That’s the story. The term originally was a bullshit racial category that happened to have some linguistic usefulness that we still retain.
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?
Antisemitic used to mean people who didn’t like jews. Now it means people the jews don’t like.
People the Zionists* don’t like. Plenty of Christian Evangelicals also using it because they want the end of times to come about.
Extra points earned if you cause a Zionist to rage by mentioning that Arabs are Semites.
Netanyahu is antisemitic. You know, for getting 80% of the world to hate Israel.
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.
Hopes this goes to court and that there’s a fruitful discovery phase, with relevant documents held by parties being potentially put into the public record. Ideally with governments being dragged into this, so that it extends to gov records.
I think it’s more about draining the resources of a museum with costly litigation, which is the typical MO.
One of the most prominent witnesses in the ICC Genocide case against Israel is a British Palestinian doctor who only recently won a 2 year long litigation battle against “UK lawyers for Israel” in January, which UKLFI is trying to reopen again this past March - each legal battle costs him about £150,000, not to mention time and money from his actual job of being a doctor.
It does look like a SLAPP suit.
If it doesn’t get rejected outright, might as well make it painful for the plaintif. The plaintif may not fear an expensive court case, but they may fear dirt being dug up and exposed publicly.
The exhibit focuses on Palestinian accounts of the Nakba — Arabic for “catastrophe” — referring to the displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war surrounding the creation of the State of Israel.
“The creation of the State of Israel pursuant to international legal and diplomatic processes is not, in itself, a human rights violation,” the letter states.
Make it make sense, Israel shouldn’t exist for the exact reason.
Antisemitism is wrong, but honestly I don’t understand how the same people that pull this crap get all shocked Pikachu face over antisemitism being on the rise.
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.
They’re counting on it to drive more Jews to move to the “safety” of Israel.
hey prominent legal organization, get absolutely f’d
