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2. The 'have your cake and eat it too' crowd here calls it antisemitic to criticise 'Israel' (use the nation's name when
Sat Jul 19, 2025, 11:41 AM
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discussing the war) as it is Bibi and his religio-fascist thug (deffo my wording, lolol) base who are ordering the damage, YET some of them also then turn around and call criticism of BIBI and the fashies 'antisemitic', as they say he is duly elected leader of Israel and thus an attack on Bibi is attack all Jewish Israelis. (using that logic, to attack Trump is to attack all Americans)

They also utilise similar sophistry with the juxtaposition of Israel the state and the jewish diaspora outside of Israel (AIPAC is but one example). Whichever way they can weave in a spun up charge of 'antisemitism' to try and put a person they disagree with on their back heels, they will attempt to do it.

They love to play 'heads I win, tails you lose' games.

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