Climate activist Greta Thunberg has been labeled “antisemite of the Week” by the Jewish watchdog group StopAntisemitism following her arrest at an anti-Israel rally. The group criticized Thunberg for aligning with protesters who oppose Israel, accusing her of turning her activism into a platform for anti-Semitism, the New York Post reported.

“She has sadly transformed her activism into a platform for vile Jew-hatred,” the organization said.

Thunberg, 21, was arrested on September 4 while demonstrating with Students Against the Occupation, who called on Copenhagen University to cut ties with Israel, including climate change programs. StopAntisemitism founder Liora Rez condemned Thunberg, accusing her of prioritizing hatred for Israel over environmental activism despite Israel’s efforts on climate action.

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    “She has sadly transformed her activism into a platform for vile Jew-hatred,” the organization said.

    Thunberg, 21, was arrested on September 4 while demonstrating with Students Against the Occupation, who called on Copenhagen University to cut ties with Israel, including climate change programs. StopAntisemitism founder Liora Rez condemned Thunberg, accusing her of prioritizing hatred for Israel over environmental activism despite Israel’s efforts on climate action.

    “Sadly, Greta’s hatred of the world’s only Jewish nation eclipses her love of the environment. …”

    Well would you look at that: they make no distinction between demanding the university cut ties with Israel, “hatred for Israel”, “hatred of the world’s only Jewish nation” and “vile Jew-hatred”. So for them there’s no gap between asking for pressure to stop Israel’s active genocide and hating all Jews. It’s so absurd and such a blatant attempt at political gaslighting they don’t deserve to be taken seriously.

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      It’s a pretty standard technique of ethno-Fascists: the Zionists, just like the Nazis did, claim to represent an entire ethnicity and then cast any criticism of them and their ultra-racist Genocide as being criticism of that ethnicity they claim to represent.

      And this is hardly the only propaganda technique Zionists and Nazis have in common: most of the tricks the Zionists use are pretty much Nazi shit with just the names of the ethnicities, places and nations replaced, down to how a lot of what the Zionists claim about Palestinians in Gaza being pretty much what the Nazis claimed about the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto.

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    I wonder how long until the woman I met who is actively in the process of converting to Judaism gets labeled a rabid antisemite for her radical stand of “loudly proclaiming that she and many other Jews oppose the genocide against Palestine”.

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    Is society ready to admit that Jews don’t get a free pass to do whatever the fuck they want anymore clinging to the Holocaust as an excuse?

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        AIPAC and organisations like stopantisemitism have made it their mission in this world to ensure that there is no public distinction between Jewish people as a whole and the nation of Israel.

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    Israel maybe has Judaism as its state religion, but that doesn’t make Israel Judaism. Does Israel really think people are that stupid?

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      Does Israel really think people are that stupid?

      Looking at their propaganda, yes. Yes they do. And their super PACs ensure that the politicians they’ve pocketed parrot the same lines they say.

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    accusing her of prioritizing hatred for Israel over environmental activism despite Israel’s efforts on climate action.

    Israel’s genocide campaign has been horrible for the environment 🙄

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    Anti-semitism? how is that possible, I hate Israel, the most violent Anti-semitic nation on earth.

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    Antisemitism is not being against a war perpetrated and perpetuated by a jewish nation.

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    “It’s OK, I’m Jewish.”

    “Oh, I’m sorry. Do anything you want, all the time.”

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    “antisemite of the week” why does this sound like something that came out of an edgy nazi forum, and not from a group against antisemitism?

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    I badly want to leave comments under the articles on that website. But not enough to make an account. The other commenters are ghouls cheering on genocide.

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    These antisemites are implying that all Jews support genocide. That’s pretty fucked up.

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    The more pro-Israel people call everything that doesn’t match their beliefs antisemitism, the less antisemitism means to everyone else

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      Yep. Prior to last year if person X told me person Y was antisemitic, my opinion of person Y would have dropped.

      Today? It’s about a 33% chance for each of X, Y or both being pieces of shit.

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        It’s such a shitty landscape right now.

        Is a given person uttering valid critique of Israel or is it veiled antisemitism? Is their opponent calling out real antisemitism or is it a dishonest defense of Israel with the antisemitism-cudgel? Is real valid critique being answerd by honest but wrongly-addressed call outs of antisemitism? Is real antisemitism accepted as a valid critique?

        The example of this thread is definetly a dishonest defense of Israel, they could not have made it clearer that they will oppose valid criticism of Israel with the antisemitism-cudgel.

        And I hate that, because equating Israel and jewish people is playing right into the hands of antisemites and into the hands of a murderous isreaeli government.