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I'll be sure to let you know when I start taking advice from lemmy on my personal relationships.
He was using "everyone just wants to be right" as an excuse to shut down. His very weak rationalizations to not take a stance yet reject any advocacy for the humanity of palestinians were very transparent and I found it both disgusting and insulting. He would claim he didn't know enough, to not know "what does Hamas even want", but told me he'd have to see my sources on everything I tried to explain to him. Especially when I told him about Israel's lies of sexual violence that occurred October 7th (which was his main talking point, "you don't rape people". Well, there's not a shred of evidence that they did) and then threatened to mute our chat for sending these sources without reading or viewing them because they were "too long" or cited a tweet at some point, and I assume he did mute me but idk cause that's where things ended.
I understand that antisemitism is rising. That is happening everywhere. You also have the AFD on the rise (which he denied). That can hardly be blamed on Palestinian activists. If anything, Israel is to blame for manufacturing the situation. Fascists co-opting the movement because they want to see both sides destroy each other is hardly any reason to continue funding Israel as they wage a genocidal war, nor is it one to shut down any democratic process on the matter. They are poisoning the discourse and you are playing right into it.
And no, I refuse to accept your framing that anything Iran does is automatically bad, antisemitic, or out of proportion to the situation. Israel is no more righteous in this than they are and is actively provoking a regional conflict with weapons that we are providing.