• scarabic@lemmy.world
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      “A people” is a way of referring to a group of people, a society. You could be more specific and say “the Jewish people” but it’s the same usage.

      Someone in fact called Palestine “A land without a people for a people without a land.”

      Is it making more sense now?

      *fixed autocorrect error

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        You couldn’t say that.

        You could say “the Israeli people”. What is going on here is not the actions of Jewish people.

      • SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world
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        Do you think disagreeing with Israeli committing genocide on Palestine because of the atrocities of Hamas means you’re an antisemite?

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          1 year ago

          Of course not, but when someone says that “a people has waited with bated breath for this moment” it sounds a lot like you’re insinuating that jews wanted all of this to happen.

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            A specific subset of jews, the Zionists, did. But the average Jew definitely condemns the violence and killing, even if not all of them do