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.

  • zed_proclaimer [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    103·
    10 months ago

    They feel unsafe. They are losing sleep, they are bursting into tears. I

    To the extent they really feel any of this and aren’t just playing up hysterical crocodile tears to manipulate people, the pain and fear they feel is the subconscious knowledge that they are complicit in genocide. Anything about Palestine reminds them in a small way and forces that feeling to the surface.

    It’s the telltale heart. They wouldn’t be this hysterical and dramatic with their flailing unless they know.

    • Bloobish [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      36·
      10 months ago

      I honestly have to wonder there is some serious cognitive dissonance that people who deny genocide have to go through and it has to cause some type of mental stress/strain (i.e. being forcibly speedrun out of the propaganda about Israel one has been fed at birth alongside general US news bullshit) that leads to these moments of utter derangement responses.

    • Evilsandwichman [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      35·
      10 months ago

      I can believe they’re being honest; I’m reminded of a woman working at a hotel (America) who got a guy from the UAE showing up whom she called the cops on. Apparently the hotel was full up with Republicans because of some GOP thing and the guy probably got on his phone and started speaking Arabic. She went and hid in the bathroom, crying and telling the police he was swearing allegiance to ISIS and they sent a swat team over; the guy got upset and had a heart attack (he thankfully survived; apparently he was over there for medical purposes in the first place).

    • RyanGosling [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      23·
      10 months ago

      It’s not that they’re against genocide. The Nazis definitely weren’t. It’s just that it’s uncivil. They see it as something necessary but don’t like seeing how it’s done. Zionists are hot dog eaters and Israel is the factory.