A few of our users have recently pointed out that a lot of the pro-Zionist accounts on the fediverse nowadays seem to come from the feddit.org instance.

But whatever the excuse happens to be, they need to do better imo. Israel is currently the most violent, fascist and genocidal nation state in the Middle East (if you exclude the US military bases there). And yet feddit.org seems to regard the Palestinians fighting against Israel’s ongoing illegal occupation of their land as the real terrorists. ....

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Our instance already voted to ban pro-Zionist accounts (see https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/60585441 for reference) and the rule that was implemented is here: Golden Rule #8.

As further context, you can find relevant comments and discussion in this post by a banned feddit admin in MoG (that fact they chose to post in MoG is in itself quite telling), and this post about their defederation from quokk.au over anti-semitism allegations has recently become active again. ...

Note 2: If you think feddit.org deserves a full instance ban instead, or have alternative suggestions, then please leave your comments below. If enough people think that’s the better option, then we’ll do that instead.

In the end the Post had around 70% of support by dbzer0 users, who in the comments also called for defederation.

Here is a Link to Dbzer0 instances tab https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/instances where if you go to blocked instances you can see fedddit.org is now defederated

i dont think feddit has made a post now, but when they do i will add it

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[+] Riverside@reddthat.com -14 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (10 children)

Russia is, in fact, not enacting genocide on Ukrainians. It's carrying out an invasion which we can condemn, but calling every conflict a genocide is actually a form of genocide denial, because it minimizes the horrors of actual genocides.

If you want to see criticism of Russia in Hexbear (my main instance), yesterday there was a post asking for peoples' opinions on Putin. Here's mine so you can see how much we "love the Russian government". You may be surprised to see that most comments and upvotes are highly critical of the contemporary Russian government.

[–] Loco_Mex@sh.itjust.works 22 points 3 days ago (9 children)

Russia is, in fact, enacting genocide in Ukraine.

What Russia is doing:

Tens of thousands of children are being abducted, stripped of their identity, and taught to hate their homeland
https://thewalrus.ca/ukrainian-children/

Definition of Genocide:

Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
https://www.un.org/en/genocide-prevention/definition

[+] Riverside@reddthat.com -13 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (8 children)

The source for the tens of thousands of Ukrainian children being abducted is, unsurprisingly, the Ukrainian government. The Russian government makes claims about Ethnic Russians being cleansed in Donbas and I don't take those accusations as true either, until confirmed by independent journalistic reports. You'd do well to do a more critical analysis of wartime propaganda by countries involved in wars. I've had this conversation before with several people, revisited the sources available, and there is no independent journalistic work proving tens of thousands of Ukrainian children being abducted.

[–] CybranM@feddit.nu 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

"The source for the crime is, unsurprisingly, the victim, the criminal is denying any wrongdoing" hmmm

[–] Riverside@reddthat.com -2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Do you really think States under war have no reason to do atrocity propaganda? And you're mischaracterizing what I said, I denied similar accusations made by Russia

[–] CybranM@feddit.nu 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Who is invading who exactly?

"Burglar files counter-claim arguing that the owner of the house they're stealing from is actually stealing from the burglar"

[–] Riverside@reddthat.com -1 points 2 days ago

Ukraine from 2014 to 2022 was shelling eastern Ukraine (majority Russian ethnic territories) without any Russian invasion because two regions declared independence. This is the part where Russia is claiming ethnic cleansing and it uses as casus belli. I don't believe the genocide accusations because not everything bad is a genocide. We can condemn the invasion without making up genocides.

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