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benetnvsch · 3 months

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Feeling a bit conflicted on this so as a Jewish person going to share my thoughts

The Star of David is a Jewish symbol.

It is NOT original to Israel. People who use the Star of David aren’t inherently affiliated with Israel in the slightest and for people to harass uninvolved Jews or accuse them of being zionists bc they have the Star of David on their person/on their profile are antisemitic. Plain and simple. The Star of David is not a hate symbol and to equate being Jewish with automatically being a zionist is antisemitic as fuck

That being said, there’s no doubt it’s being used a hate symbol and many Palestinians see it as such. Pro-Palestinian posters and messages are being vandalized with the Star of David, flags with the star are being flown over destroyed Palestinian towns- towns that have been bombed into dust by people wearing the same symbol-, Israeli soldiers even BRAND innocent Palestinians with it- permanently marking it into their skin as a sadistic act of unneeded cruelty and humiliation. Yes, while it’s not intentionally used as a hate symbol zionists are using it as such and consequently we’re not going to blame Palestinians for seeing it as so !!!

“The Star of David is an important Jewish symbol and not indicative of Zionism in the slightest” and “The Star of David is unfortunately seen as a symbol of oppression by many of those suffering from Israel’s brutal ethnic cleansing” are statements that can and need to co-exist.

While yes, it’s antisemitic as hell to point fingers to anyone who has the Star of David on them and call them a zionist, do not fucking harass the Palestinians who had no fucking choice but to associate that symbol with hate and violence and death

#free palestine #been seeing some WILD tweets abt this lately and just???#the last thing Palestinians need is a bunch of goyim jumping them going Erm Actually when they dare express #discomfort at a symbol people who want them fucking dead have been using when slaughtering them for decades #like yeah it’s not a hate symbol but when people who use it are committing genocide uhhh guess what?#this is like that the nazis did with the swatsika- u would never blame a Jewish person from seeing it as a hate symbol #even though it’s roots are in Asian culture bc oppressive groups used it as theirs !!#yeah it’s sucky as hell if the Star of David does gain the same association but I’d rather never associate with it again #then repeatedly traumatize the minorities who had a literal fucking genocide committed against them by ppl #wearing said symbol and used it to colonize them !!

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