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Re:The United States withdraws from UNESCO by runarberg on Sunday July 27, 2025 @04:18PM (#44704338)
I was hoping your account would have been banned by now, and I will claim this is a massive oversight in HN moderation the longer you are allowed to freely post over here. I hope that the mods have simply not gotten around to banning your account. But if they actually saw your posts and decided you didn’t break HN guidelines badly enough to warrant a ban, that would be really bad.

I know I am not following the HN guidelines over here, and that my behavior in searching for mentions of Israel and calling people out for their worst speech is neither healthy nor helpful. But what you are doing here is spreading genocidal rhetoric, racism, propaganda and hate is far worse. The post which I replied to is far from your worst offense. And you seem to be getting more radicalized and racist in your posts as the genocide continues. I don‘t think you can recover from your hateful beliefs at this point, and I don‘t think there is a point in talking you out of it. So my only hope is that you will be stripped of opportunities from distributing your genocidal hate on platforms like HN.

Re:The United States withdraws from UNESCO by amendegree on Monday July 28, 2025 @10:37AM (#44711312)
Every time someone claims that Israel or the Jewish people are inherently genocidal, hateful, or racist, they are participating in a modern-day blood libel. It’s deeply troubling and echoes one of the oldest and most dangerous forms of antisemitism: falsely accusing Jews of heinous crimes to justify hatred and violence against them.

This type of rhetoric is not only historically rooted in prejudice, but it also fuels the rise in antisemitic incidents around the world. For example, a recent incident involving a group of Jewish French children being racially targeted and removed from a flight, based on completely fabricated claims that contradict eyewitness testimony, is a chilling reminder of where this kind of hostility leads. These children were interrogated about their ties to Israel, simply because they were visibly Jewish. The Spanish foreign minister then added to the fire by asking if the Spanish people would be patriotic or believe evil Israeli zionists, (again these were French Jews many of whom had never been to Israel.) echoing the Dreyfus affair and other blood libels.

You spreading completely, provably false claims of genocide and violence doesn’t exist in a vacuum. It emboldens bigots and reinforces the belief that Jews, wherever they are, are somehow deserving of suspicion or punishment for existing.

Many people hate Israel not because of any policy disagreement, but because it represents one of the few places where Jews feel they have agency and safety in a world that has repeatedly failed to protect them. That safety, unfortunately, is what some find threatening.

Nothing I’ve said promotes hate or genocide, quite the opposite. My concern is with protecting people from the real harm that comes from false accusations and malicious stereotypes. It’s important to recognize when the line between legitimate criticism and dangerous rhetoric has been crossed, and to speak up when it happens.

Re:The United States withdraws from UNESCO by runarberg on Monday July 28, 2025 @12:47PM (#44712639)
> It’s important to recognize when the line between legitimate criticism and dangerous rhetoric has been crossed, and to speak up when it happens.

That is what I am doing. Denying the Gaza Genocide (which is still ongoing as of today) is dangerous and hateful rhetoric, and I am calling you out on it. You have also demonstrated anti-Palestinian hate and anti-Palestinian racism in a more broader sense. I don‘t think you will stop doing that until you are banned.

Note that I am talking about you specifically, not any ethno-religious group you belong to. Whatever you are doing has no implication on your ethno-religious group as a whole.

EDIT: For the record, human rights group inside Israel even call this a genocide. There is only one reason for your genocide denial, and that reason is grounded in hate towards the group who are victims of genocide. And I am really disappointed in HN for allowing this kind of extreme rhetoric to persist here.

https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2025/7/28/israeli-r...