I just wanted to let y’all know that whenever one of them sees even the smallest expression of Palestinian solidarity it absolutely wrecks their shit.
My Zionist coworkers have worked themselves up into a frenzy about not just the phrase Free Palestine (“genocidal”), but also keffiyehs (“genocidal”), and even cartoon watermelons (“reminds them of Germany in the 1930’s”). These aren’t grifters or online trolls. These are seemingly normal people, some of whom I’ve worked with for most of a decade, who are absolutely losing their fucking minds, and are completely convinced that any reference to Palestine is by definition anti-Semitic and a direct attack on them personally. They have complained to our boss, they have complained to our union, they have snuck into someone’s room and taken down a pro-Palestinian display. They are refusing to enter a room that has a watermelon displayed. They feel unsafe. They are losing sleep, they are bursting into tears. Its genuinely bizarre to witness.
I have a small watermelon up in my room and felt guilty that I wasn’t doing more, but apparently this seemingly mild gesture has the power of a thousand Hamas supersoldiers. Keep it up comrades.
If it sounds like I’m making this up, I honestly can’t blame you. I wouldn’t have believed it if I hadn’t been watching this play out.
it’s the libs co-opting “cis is a slur” and adapting it to their pet cause. all you have to do is declare a false equivalence with the most horrible thing you can imagine, assume that equivalence is true and then carry forward as though you’re the victim. “Um, sweaty, ‘Don’t bomb hospitals’ is actually a call for genocide, so if you’re against leaving babies to starve to death in the NICU you’re basically a Nazi”.