I hope I will not get downvoted because I’m genuinely wondering
Lemmy almost has no users from neither Israel or Palestine, however most of communities filled with Anti Israel content, I even tried muting all news related communities, but now I see anti Israel content in completely unrelated communities, like !android@lemmy.world and !memes@sopuli.xyz
Is there a reason why Lemmy is so fixated on Israel/Palestine? Neither of other world conflicts get even close in terms of attention. It’s neither a case on my microblogging Fediverse account or my most “algoritmic” social media, even kbin part of the Threadiverse seems not as obsessed with it, what’s so different about Lemmy?
(Sorry for a bit clickbait-y title)
Edit: I actually might take down this post because half of people in replies completely misunderstood it
What Hamas did was atrocious, and how Israel responds is even worse. Where I live, people are not against Israel or Palestine per se. They are against violence and genocide. And rightfully so. No matter who commits the crimes, or where they are committed, they are still crimes and it’d frankly be weird not to condemn them in the strongest possible way. Is it really that difficult not to think only in terms of us-them. black-white, good-bad and/or left-right? The level of discourse (or absence thereof) is quite disheartening.
##tl;dr Because Israel is breaking international law.
Are you stalking my profile now lol?
Maybe. Why? Does it bother you if people call out Israel?
Not really, there’s a lot of propoganda online so it’s completely understandable to me
I do find it concerning tho when a person first says that I should stop saying “bullshit” and then goes on as far to stalk my profile for my past posts
Well, in my defence, a lot of what you are saying IS bullshit.
I had a look into it and have to say: you got a point. OP still has to learn some things, but where’s life there is hope.
It’s funny because in the post they said that anti Israeli content bothers them, but they claim it doesn’t. I think it bothers them a lot. But what should bother them more is apartheid in Israel and genocide in the name of the Jewish people.
Of course you will get downvoted because there is no nuance with those people (often Tankies or „anticolonional“/„antiimperial“ leftists) and when they hate on „Israel“ and „Zionism“, they more often than not, mean „Jews“.
And exactly those people are part of the reason that Jews are scared for their life all over the world.
As someone that considers himself a leftist, even by European standards, I am honestly disgusted by those people. I think „those people“ are willing to betray left values as long it is about Israel or Jews. Many of them even lack basic human empathy as long as „only“ Jews and/or Israelis are concerned.
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thanks @ElcaineVolta ! As you disapprove of my posts, I know I do the right things.
Seems to me you’re willing to abandon left values when it pertains to Palestine.
Maybe it might because Israel is in the wrong? Maybe overreacting a bit and committing something awfully close to genocide? Just a thought.
The Fediverse is heavily far left-leaning. The far left is anti-Israel, and thus so are most Fediverse users.
Anti-genocide and anti-apartheid (antifascist) is not “far left.” Those things are far right.
you wish fewer people were horrified and outraged over active genocide?
Even if genocide happens as you say, I don’t see any attention to other genocides in the world on there, only to this specific war
Because it’s the most recent world event. Were you not seeing constant discussions about Russia/Ukraine when that first started?
Lemmy wasn’t as popular back and even tho it had it’s share of users, I wasn’t on it, so I can’t really say how it was on Lemmy
I have seen discussions about Russia-Ukrainian but I haven’t seen them at all outside of the political communities on Lemmy, and they seem limited to certain communities.
And is it the most recent world event?
This is a logical fallacy. For example just because the Uighur issue receives less present attention (because it’s not NEW) doesn’t make the latest attempt at genocide more acceptable.
We’re not sure how much is real and how much is Western propaganda. It’s not like our own nations don’t lie to us.
Western propoganda? I’m surprised you’re on kbin and not on lemmygrad
You’re so aware! /s because it’s needed. WMD and Iraq. Gulf of Tonkin. Plenty more.
There is a lot of leftist/communist who run lemmy. I guess they are aint jewish and pro palestine. My guess
considering Israel has no problem killing Palestinian Jews, where does that put them on the anti-semitic spectrum?
What’s different about Lemmy compared to other sites? The Palestine/Israel conflict is the main topic point today. Everyone is talking about it everywhere, whether it be Reddit or Twitter. Are you up to date on the news?
I know it is the main political discourse, and yes I know how many attention it gets But I don’t see much attention to it outside of the political circles neither on Twitter or on Reddit outside of a few specific exceptions
Maybe you’re not subscribed to many places, I see it everywhere in my feeds. For what it’s worth I rarely see it on Lemmy outside of meme and politics communities.
On social media I usually have 2 accounts 1 political and 1 apolitical one, with different following and interactions in general. On my apolitical accounts even if I got such content in first week or two when everyone were talking about it I stopped getting it on my feeds since then.
One of commenters pointed that it might be a problem with mod actions federating then, even tho I’m not sure if that’s the reason.
