There is a lot of antisemitic views these days
A bowl of fruit doesn’t really qualify no matter how you spin it. Also criticizing Israel does not mean criticizing all Jewish people. The Jewish faith is getting pulled into politics which really sucks for everyone who is not Israel. The current Israel administration likes to scream antisemitism for every bit of criticism. They are directly fueling antisemitic views.
This is all by design, any criticism whatsoever get equated to anti semitism and the eventual outcome, of course, is that the entire word gets so cheapened that by a year from now nobody will care about it anymore.
It’s the typical an of short sighted dictatorial wannabe types
That’s their hope. The administrations of some governments are purposely doing moves to embolden terrorism, embolden racism, embolden hate. Then when someone with the wrong skin color does something terrible, they can say, “see? War were declared.” Let the wartime profits rain in!
Jewish people are great, the people of Israel seem to be smart and clever, their engineering seems first-class. Their government? Up there with the USA Federal government on the list of terrible things that need to go away.
Watermelons became symbols of Palestine amid censorship of the Palestinian flag because of its similar colours.
Ah, ok - before reading I thought someone had got their stereotypes mixed up.
Imagine being so racist that you get upset over a watermelon.
It isn’t really racism
It has a lot more to do with covering up the lack of basic ethics in Gaza.
As with everything, it isn’t about the watermelon, it is about the symbol it represents. To anyone that doesn’t want to excuse / explain, a symbol represents something - in this case support for Palestine. So it is treated the exact same as if she had a Palestinian flag in the background. Especially because she is Palestinian.
The only idiotic part is the “antisemitic” thing, when 1. Palestinians are Semites too, 2. Supporting Palestine isn’t antisemitic.
I’d probably ask a person with a flag background to take it down too tbh, no matter if it was the Israeli flag, Palestinian, British or US. Just probably not for those reasons that they stated.
Classifying something as simple as a still life painting as political seems like a stretch. Next up they will be firing people who eat fruit for breakfast.
I do think there has been a real increase antisemitic views fueled by politics and the media. It really sucks to be Jewish as all Jewish people are now tied to murders. Last time I checked Jewish people don’t have control over the current Israelis administration. Even being Israelis doesn’t mean you support Israel’s actions in Gaza.
People need to put the blame on the leadership of Israel not random people who happen to be Jewish. I think a lot of the Pro Palestine movements are at least partially neonazi movements.
And as I said - a symbol is never “simple as a still life painting”. If it were still life painting only, why is this news? Why didn’t she change the background to a different one that didn’t have the watermelon? Why is there so much emotion surrounding it?
The truth is - a watermelon is a symbol for Palestine now. We organize watermelon parties in public parks and everyone knows what it is. Sure, it’s a celebration of culture, not political, generally just a party. But at the end of the day, it is a symbol too. Playing dumb doesn’t suddenly make people go “oh okay I guess this is just a watermelon”. People see a duck, hear a duck, think a duck.
this is a bit like when homophobes get upset over rainbows
And not in the way you’d think
I bet none of these “apolitical” organisations would act if someone displayed a Ukrainian flag and I bet none of them would claim it was potentially sensitive and offensive to Russians.
Supporting Ukraine = nonpolitical
Supporting Palestine = political
Mega double standards when it comes to the two conflicts.
(I am against the Russian invasion, just in case it seems otherwise)
Supporting Ukraine = nonpolitical
Supporting Palestine = political
Now ask these people about Iran, Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan. Let’s see whether their classification is really based on religion. :-\
Ukrainian flag - not political. Russian flag - political.
Israeli flag - not political. Palestinian flag - political.
I think that’s the point of the lawsuit. You can’t claim you’re “completely apolitical and non-biased” when you actually support one side of a conflict and punish your employees who support the other side.
All flags are inherrently political. A flag is the ultimate symbol for nationalism. Usually you shouldn’t display them in any context, especially in a job that makes you face people from different backgrounds, ethnicities or nations.
So yeah, I’d tell someone to take off the Ukraine background too, not for the “someone might be offended” reason
supporting the status quo is always political but invisibly so
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I can’t believe you would post something so blatantly antisemitic!
:sprinkles some tajin on it:
Watermelon
Ow, my… Judaism? Idk, can I have some too? I’ll share my gala apples.
Guaranteed they’d embrace pineapples, with bells on.
How dare you
The same people that think not murdering babies is antisemitic
It is a little funny to me that the extreme right is being torn politically. On the one hand they hate Jewish people but on the other they don’t want left leaning politicians.
It must be hard being a far right white supremacist.
