But I am glad that the most hateful and deranged comments get removed.

I would be first in line to die on the hill if it was about letting the Jewish people have their own state, everyone has that right. But the original comment wasn’t about anything against that, the comment wasn’t hateful. It was just arguing a perspective arguing that weapons funding should be cut to the Israeli state to help mitigate the genocide that they are propagating.

I can’t argue for what happened afterwards in-between the admins, but the removal of the comment was unnecessary. Instead of invalidating an arguable issue, it was conversely invalidating the genocide of another group of humans (is it because they are brown?) in an effort to aggressively enforce a law. Whatever the law is, it needs updating from holocaust to genocide in general, otherwise you are picking which skin colored people you are okay with being murdered on mass.

I would instead ask you to stop pitting two people’s struggles against each other.

When it comes to the usage of Nazi as a label, the intent matters grossly. If someone was doing this just to satisfy some morbid requirement (like Russia is with Ukraine) then it’s obviously wrong, But even there, I think that’s a different matter than holocaust denial, it doesn’t hurt the Jewish people as much as a state that represents them committing mass murder does. A lot of people died in the holocaust besides the Jewish people you know? And the Nazis were responsible for a lot more atrocities than just that. The Label isn’t just for the Jewish people’s struggle. Being a Nazi is about being a race supremacist and genociding people.

Thank you for the answer. I guess it’s understandable. Though the original comment in this post doesn’t deny the existence of an Israeli state.

But it does mean that I don’t compare it to Nazism.

This isn’t the same as calling someone you don’t like a Nazi. But even then, the term Nazi, in this day and age, no longer just means people who idolize Hitler and hate on Jews. Its use has expanded to include all those who are willing to genocide another group of people and more.

And though I can see the need to separate the semantics within Germany itself, due to its history and laws, its supposed misappropriation is an irrelevant discussion at this stage. A lot of Israeli’s are very openly and loudly advocating for the erasure of the Palestinian people, even children and innocent people. It’s not even a joke, that they are using the same terminologies and tactics. It is impossible to not conflate them with Nazis.

This isn’t to deny the Jewish struggle, of course, this is to say that calling the Israeli government and stooges Nazis isn’t an invalidation of the Jewish struggle. These people are, save for a time machine, literal Nazis (the IDF, the Israeli government and anyone advocating for the erasure of Palestinians).

You are arguing semantics when we are long past that.

Even then, it’s a flimsy argument. It just feels like another measure to maintain a semblance of historical guilt by the government, not an actual effort to help the Jewish people. If you can show me where “misusing” the label Nazi is worse for the Jewish people and their struggles, than the literal genocide of the Palestinian people by a Jewish state, I’ll change my mind.

Sure the admin may be unhinged, but removing a post about making a distinction between anti-zionism and anti-semitism?

I got some translation from their post on it about how they can’t tolerate “accusations” of being called zionists? What’s wrong with accusations? Removing the comment is sufficient evidence for it.

Also there’s something there about such discussions being precarious because it’s against some german,swiss laws? Can someone who knows german explain it a little better? Because it seems like “We will not discuss this because we don’t like this discussion”