SATISH SHARMA - not just Rotigraphy.: The words "genocide" and "occupation" are antisemitic tropes now, apparently, as are the phrases "Epstein class" and "Operation Epstein Fury".

https://x.com/caitoz/status/2040942204483731509

It's been fun watching Israel apologists invent "antisemitic tropes" in real time. The words "genocide" and "occupation" are antisemitic tropes now, apparently, as are the phrases "Epstein class" and "Operation Epstein Fury". In reality they're just effective talking points used to highlight facts that are inconvenient to Israel and its allies. Every relevant human rights group on earth agrees that Israel is an occupying force in the Palestinian territories. Every relevant human rights group on earth has accused Israel of genocide in Gaza. The phrase "Epstein class" makes the rich and powerful people who rule our society look as creepy and suspicious as they should look. "Operation Epstein Fury" highlights Trump's place in the Epstein Files as he wages an insane war which Israel has been seeking for decades. We see this all the time. Effective pro-Palestine political slogans like "Globalize the intifada" and "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free" are labeled antisemitic not because they express hatred toward Jews but because they are effective. That's all it ever is. Israel apologists see a phrase or slogan hurting Israeli information interests and go "Uh, okay so you can't say those words anymore. Those words make Jewish people feel unsafe." And then the phrases get banned. Here in Australia we just saw the state of Queensland ban the phrase "from the river to the sea" on penalty of two years in prison. For no other reason than because it's something people chant at pro-Palestine protests. Antisemitism isn't the target of these laws; the protests themselves are the target. They're designed to shut down pro-Palestine demonstrations by making so many speech suppression laws that nobody would attend one without a lawyer present to advise them on what they may and may not say. The very first time someone told me "from the river to the sea Palestine will be free" was a hateful genocidal chant I thought it was the most ridiculous thing I'd ever heard, and to this day I still feel that way. It's a completely counter-intuitive claim that makes no sense on first hearing it. It is only by the constant repetition of the assertion that it's an antisemitic slogan that people began accepting this transparently absurd idea. They just said it over and over again in an authoritative tone until people started to buy it. Nobody actually believes these words and phrases are hateful toward Jews, they're just pretending to believe that to promote the information interests of a genocidal apartheid state. That's all we're ever looking at with this nonsense.