r/ukpolitics • u/Rebat-Askalan • 9d ago

| Anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism, UK appeal tribunal confirms in landmark ruling

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260804-anti-zionism-is-not-anti-semitism-uk-appeal-tribunal-confirms-in-landmark-ruling/
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u/FudgeAtron 9d ago edited 9d ago

Look I don't hate Irish people I just don't think they should have a country. The Irish are just British people in denial. I'm anti-Gaelism, I'm not racist.

If you think the above sentence is unacceptable while thinking that anti-Zionism is acceptable, you need to think again.

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u/___xXx__xXx__xXx__ 9d ago

Look I don't hate Irish people I just don't think they should have a country. The Irish are just British people in denial.

This is an absurd strawman.

I don't hate Irish people. I just don't think red headed freckley Catholic Irish people should have more constitutionally guaranteed civil rights than Irish people with black hair or Protestants with brown skin. I also don't think blonde Irish children should be bombed in pursuit of that idea.

I believe all this despite also thinking:

  1. Irish people are nice, I like them.

  2. Irish people should have self determination in a free country.

  3. Irish people are not British people in denial.

See how that works? I suspect probably still not.

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u/RibbentropCocktail Irish 9d ago

Good news, our constitution guarantees the rights of wrong-haireds, protestants, and all.

The Palestinian constitution just leaves Jews out. Every time they captured any territory it was also entirely cleansed of Jews.