According to news media, Israel and Hamas have agreed a deal for the release of 50 women and children hostages held in Gaza in return for 150 Palestinian women and children to be freed from Israeli jails.
All reports use the same words. What are women and children doing in Israeli jails in the first place? Those held by Hamas are called hostages, but not the women and children held in Israeli jails.
Analyse and discuss.
It seems to me, when trawling X (formerly known as Twitter, and still known as Twitter) there's a concerted effort by some parties to portray any criticism of Israel as anti-Semitism as a way of shutting down a conversation.
Accusations of Islamophobia don't land as well, probably because there's no collective guilt of a Holocaust behind it and the Crusades were a long, long time ago. There are individuals on Twitter who openly celebrate the fact they're Islamophobic without any irony or realising that Islamophobia and anti-Semitism come from the same, dark place - ignorance and stereotyping, fear of the 'other', media influence, blaming others for one's misfortunes, etc.
It's the same with the River to the Sea chants. They're abhorred by those supporting Israel, yet almost the same words are used in the original Likud (Netanyahu's party) founding charter (click to enlarge the page below from the Jewish Virtual Library). The wording is; "...between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty". A blatant example of the pot calling the kettle black.
Slogans can have many meanings and it's a general rule of thumb that alleged facts that require numerous assumptions to justify their veracity are not as factual as is at first claimed.
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Ah, "Islamophobia" a word invented by Fascists and used by cowards to control morons.
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