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Re: [DebConf Scedule change] "Let's talk about the elephant in the room" DebConf20 in Israel session



Steve Langasek dijo [Sat, Jul 27, 2019 at 09:07:02AM -0700]:
> > The BDS movement is widely described as antisemitic.  Why should we
> > care about it?
> 
> Because the defenders of Israel's racist and genocidal policies describe
> everyone that opposes them as antisemitic as a means of shutting down
> legitimate criticism, and therefore something being "widely described" as
> antisemitic tells you nothing about whether it is antisemitic, only about
> whether it opposes some policy of the Israeli state.

Ask people identifying themselves as Jewish. We tend to feel it as
clearly antisemitic.

I agre antizionist and antisemitic is not exactly the same, but -as
Schachar said- the results from the actions in question are basically
indistinguishable. Also, the tone how it dismisses our Israeli peers
as "agents of the occupation" just for having been born in a given
place and being citizens to their only home country, stinks of the
worst, stalest racism we have seen.

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