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UK’s largest Jewish group punishes members who broke silence on Gaza genocide

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3w ago

UK’s largest Jewish group punishes members who broke silence on Gaza genocide

www.middleeastmonitor.com /uks-largest-jewish-group-punishes-members-who-broke-silence-on-gaza-genocide/

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after publicly criticising Israel’s military assault on Gaza, an act they described as incompatible with Jewish values and morally indefensible
Fuck off, don't tell me what my values are. This is the kind of shit that made me question and then abandon my religion. It's obviously impossible to abandon being ethnically Jewish, but this bullshit has been so goddamn atrocious that it makes me question my people's history.
Jewish values my ass. Israel is run by terrorists and the Zionists in my family welcome it with open arms. Fuck all these monsters.
Edit: ohhhhhhh... Apparently "they" are the heroes of this story who got suspended. I thought that "they" were the board that suspended those folks. Well, fuck me for losing the subject-pronoun-antecedent game. The sentiment remains, but directed towards the fucking bastards who suspended the originators of the quote that I misattributed.
- Is that not the suspended deputies describing the act as incompatible with Jewish values? I'm not sure whether "the act" here is the attack on Gaza or the suspensions, though. It's a very poorly-written sentence on the part of the article's author
  
  Yes, I also read it as the attack on Gaza being the thing described as incompatible with Jewish values. I almost downvoted the guy's comment before I realized he misread it.
  
  Thanks for pointing that out! Yeah, I totally mistook "they" to mean the board, not the suspended members. To the suspended members, I say "finally. Thank fuck." The best time to stop a genocide is before it starts, but the second best time is right fucking now.
- I'm disappointed in the Passover story for omitting God's 11th plague: bombing the shit out of the Egyptians. I'm even more upset about them taking this quote out of context:
  You shall not oppress a stranger, since you yourselves know the feelings of a stranger, for you also were strangers in the land of Egypt.
  It should actually end with "Unless you have lots of explosives and military equipment being supplied to you. In that case, you should probably terrorize a vibrant and colorful population into becoming radicalized by your abuses and then genocide those people because loony politicians believe that they can personally kick-start the rapture."
- saying that genocide is a Jewish value is the most antisemitic thing in this whole ordeal.
- Don't worry, I'm sure your first understanding of "they" was also correct, just not said out loud.
  After all, why punish criticism of Israel if they don't feel that Bibi & Co speak for them?
  This is the type of behavior that makes anti-semitism rise in Europe, all because some corrupt, power-hungry, racist twat is afraid of spending his retirement in jail. (And I'm sorry you are ethnically linked to the cunts that cheer him on)
  If I ever get a time machine, I'm gonna go back and make Abraham disappear. It'll be 3 religious birds with 1 stone!
  
  Antisemitism is on the rise because people like you do a lot of victim blaming. Attacking Jews because the internet propaganda made you angry is not justified. It's not happening "because of how the Jews act" or whatever rationalization you're attempting here. Antisemtism happens because antisemitism is being spread on the internet without being challenged because people don't want to upset their friends in the anti-Israel movement.
- You're ranting about a religious group being religious? Your atheist religion has made you lose perspective a little bit.
  
  The only religion they've mentioned is Judaism. Not sure if you wrongly consider atheism a religion or not.
Zionism is a death cult.
Jewish group punishes jews who speak out against genocide. Group is bad. Individuals are courageous.
Jews who refuse to take responsibility for the Zionists claiming to speak on their behalf deserve what comes.
Fuck off trying to put distance. Clean up your own goddamn house.
- That's crazy. Jewish people at large are not responsible for the actions of the Israeli government. The diaspora has no power over the isreali government, and they have no say.
- You know, I can see where you're coming from there, but people have to resist with the tools they have at hand. I think it's a lot more powerful sometimes to keep your resistance in the family, both literally and figuratively.
  Or Jewish friends who publicly denounce what is now clearly a genocide are to be protected and lauded, of course.
  But those who resist quietly among family and friends, also deserve our admiration. Sometimes quiet diplomacy is the most effective thing, and it's perhaps even more brave when well meaning folk like yourself are creating these litmus tests requiring public resistance.

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