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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 39 points 1 day ago (1 children)

People have been called antisemitic for less

[–] horn_e4_beaver@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The president of Germany? Anti-semitic?

[–] merdaverse@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

We've come full circle!

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] theolodis@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

81 years ago it wasn't that hard to imagine

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You don't even need to go back 81 years. The post-war Germans were also horrifyingly antisemitic for decades. It wasn't until the late stages of the Cold War that the German Christian Democrats felt the need to clean up their own rotten reputation and rebrand as zealously pro-Zionist. Curiously enough, this was just about the same time anti-Muslim bigotry was coming into vogue, and anti-semitism accusations could be leveraged to denounce Middle Eastern government leaders sitting on large oil reserves.

[–] theolodis@feddit.org 3 points 1 day ago

Just a side note, the German Zionism is deeply antisemitic, as it forbids to draw a line between the state of Israel and Jews as a whole, implicitly suggesting that all Jews were accountable for the crimes of the state.