littlegoythings:anagennao:lovemeena:He is Cartoonist, Carlos Latuff. He draws cartoons of anti-Zioni
littlegoythings:anagennao:lovemeena:He is Cartoonist, Carlos Latuff. He draws cartoons of anti-Zionism, anti-globalization, anti-capitalism, and anti-US military intervention. These would not be published by magazines who were screaming antisemitism-despite Arabs are Semites as well. Leave it to the wonderful Glen Greenwald to write about the double standard. So here is Freedom of speech. many of Latuff’s cartoons are antisemitic and the whole “Arabs are Semites” is a null argument tbh there is a word for negative sentiment towards Arabs: anti-arabism. let’s not forget that Charlie Hebdo created antisemitic AND islamophobic cartoons that were both protected as “freedom of speech”To spell it out for you, because you are such an abject fool:These cartoons rely on a number of false and antisemtic assumptions.One is the assumption that Islamaphobic bigots and Jews are on “the same side.” This is not true at all. The VAST majority of the time, people who are Islamaphobic are also antisemitic. They like to pit Jews against Muslims because this will do their dirty work for them, but ultimately, these bigots view both Jews and Muslims as dirty foreigners with an unwanted faith.The other is that Jews are somehow fairly treated in the media - sometimes connected to Israel, sometimes not. This is also not true. While certain western media outlets are very obviously anti-Palestine, that does NOT make them “pro-Jewish,” and often they will manipulate reporting of events in the Middle East to hurt Arabs, Palestinians, and Diaspora Jews all at the same time. There is a winner and a loser here, but the winner isn’t Jews, and it’s not due to a “Jewish media conspiracy.” Antisemitism is rampant in western media, and so is Islamaphobia. This isn’t a contest.Notions of blood libel and “Israel lobby” are both antisemitic, straight out. The first relies on stereotypes hundreds (actually, over a thousand) years old, libels that ended in bloodshed very often. It is not “fair game” to use. Notions of “Jewish/Israel lobbies” are straight up conspiracy theories lifted from that infamous forge, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Most “lobbies” that back Israel are white Christians, NOT Jews, because of various reasons. Some of that is Western and/or US interest in the Middle East, legit political reasons, but some is for weird Christian end of days stuff, some of it is because these Islamaphobic bigots want to manipulate Jews and Arabs and Muslims into finishing each other off (because bigots are AWFUL.) There’s a range of reasons that money and power from different areas of society get funneled in this direction, but it isn’t Jews doing it, and it’s not under Jewish auspices or influence.Comparing Israel to ISIS is silly because while you can argue both suck, they are otherwise incomparable. It’s a comparison that has no value because nothing is learned. It’s just there for “shock.” Yawn.Salaita wasn’t silenced. He just wasn’t hired for a specific job. No one pulled his books from the shelves, no one arrested him, no one shut down his Twitter. You can argue whether or not not hiring him was fair or not, but to argue he was silenced? Nah.Holocaust denial is never ok. It is the most widely documented genocide in history, point blank. If you are playing that game, you are scum, and you are not just antisemitic, you are antiziganist too.Go read wikipedia because you fucking suck. -- source link
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