Comment on British Airways pulls Louis Theroux podcast sponsorship after Bob Vylan interview

• Samskara@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  „Death to Israel“ and „Death to America“ is also popular in the Middle East.

  How about in the UK or Anglosphere?

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  • knowone@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Ahh so you did know some other chants. Yes it’s no secret there’s animosity between some Middle Easterners and the US and Israel. What’s your point with all this?

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    • Samskara@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yes, those originate from Arab, Persian, and Hebrew speaking extremists.

      The point is, Bob Vylan escalated the rhetoric in the English language surrounding Israel to a new level, not heard for other topics.

      Calling for death is the opposite of calling for peace. It’s a call for more violence and war.

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      • colforge@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It’s also exactly what the leaders in Israel are doing and have done against the people of Palestine but I don’t see you going off about that. Guess supporting Islamophobia and genocide are more acceptable to you than calling for the end of one.

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      • floofloof@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It doesn’t have to be extreme. It can be a call to end the genocidal apartheid oppression that has been Israel. But as I understand it he called for “death to the IDF”, and clarified it as a call for an end to the murderous gang of was criminals that is perpetrating Israel’s genocide. There’s nothing extreme about this. It’s about protecting people from the most extreme brutality.

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      • Auntievenim@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yeah, war on fascists and genocidal freaks. Die with them if you want.

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      • QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It isn’t an extremist position to oppose the seizure of your grandfather’s home due the racist revanchism of an ethno-religious group.

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      • triplenadir@lemmygrad.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        … not heard for other topics

        genius.com/The-coup-5-million-ways-to-kill-a-ceo-…

        en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubul'_ibhunu

        genius.com/Crunk-punk-kill-your-local-rapist-lyri…

        Unlike you, or the Israeli government, the rest of us realize that you can’t kill an ideology or a social problem by killing people - all of these songs, and the Bob Vylan chant, were what’s called a “metaphor”.

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