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ogogmadyesterday at 7:12 PM0 repliesview on HN

The ADL labels all opponents of Israel as anti-semitic. They don't speak for Jewish people. Their smears help Israel by hurting Jews, so that Zionists can point to Israel as their only refuge. Helping Israel in turn hurts countless other people who are not Jewish, which Zionists mostly don't care about because Zionists are mostly ethno-centric, full of self-pity, regurgitate predictable lies about Israel's history without doing any critical investigation of their own, and have absolutely no principles. You are amplifying this.

I know this because I've grown up around them. I used to be on their side until I found out that they lied to me about certain events - and to such a degree that they swapped around victim and perpetrator. They told me that the Gazans blew up greenhouses when the Israeli settlers left, because of their insane hatred of Jews. Then I found out that the only people who blew up any greenhouses were the Israeli settlers - and that there was even a website set up solely to rebut the claim that the Gazans did it. Then I found out that Zionists didn't care, because of a long litany of grievances that had nothing to do with Palestinians. Then most of them voted for a government that put Ben Gvir in charge of the police force and prisons. Then they passed on a chance to use diplomatic pressure to get Hamas to step down after the 07/10 attack, without launching a vengeful massacre in Gaza.