Basically, there was a discussion about how instances have rules and Feddit also needs to abide by local (Austrian) law to not get in legal trouble.
And I get called a Zionazi for saying that you cant just up and call for the massacre of civilians, regardless of which side you are on.
It’s also ironic for Dessalines to mock me for sticking to rules and laws to protect our instance.
Unjust laws should never be obeyed.
It’s not that simple though. Run an instance that is dedicated to German speakers and not a specific political standpoint. The laws we have to obey are hatespeech laws. The laws don’t ban antizionism, they however ban glorification of murdering innocents of a certain ethnicity. Doesn’t matter which ethnicity. Some people are just sore they can’t voice antizionist critiques without losing themselves in a violent and hateful dream.
Here’s the rub bud, if you really were fundamentally against Zionist oppression you would feel appalled by uplifting Zionists and censoring anti-Zionist sentiment including less than polite antifascists.
There are two options, first one is move Feddit out of Germany. I realize that might not be feasible but it is technically possible and would remove the problem of complying with the laws of a state that has literal compelled speech requirements that favor Zionism and Zionists. The second option is more personal, if you yourself actually despise supporting Zionism (I’m pretty sure this If is hypothetical from what I’ve seen) and you really didn’t agree with or support it. You can resign from Feddit and no longer be complacent in the censoring of anti-Zionists or anti-fascists. But I say this is hypothetical because from what you’ve said in your other comments, I don’t really believe you are against Zionism where it counts. Murder and direct violence sure, but the more subtle and more systemic problems of Zionism, not so much. You wouldn’t be using strawman arguments to try and justify yourself if you were actually in favor of anti-Zionist sentiment.
Even if you didn’t do either of those things, continued to work for Feddit and ban anti-Zionists and antifascists but didn’t try to justify it or use some strawman argument to say “No no, they were actually bad people, trust be bro” I would still respect you more than I do now. Because it is not respectable to apologize for uplifting Zionism, silencing criticism of it, and then saying that you stand by doing that. What you have been doing reeks of Liberal Zionist apologia. And it is fucking gross as hell.
Move the German instance out of Germany?
Wouldn’t it make more sense to limit antisemitism while still allowing antizionism?
Germany’s laws do often conflate the two (here’s an example), so that’s more tricky than it might seem.
So in light of that it may be wise to have the German instance not actually be in Germany.
Though as I said, that may not be feasible and hypothetically isn’t the only option. I don’t think either option is likely to be taken by the OP, I don’t even think bare minimum attempt not to support Zionism will be taken by them. Their behavior doesn’t show it. I feel like they would probably agree with what happened in the article I listed.
Purely for curiosity’s sake, I don’t think Israel’s populace should be destroyed. Does that make me zionist?
Careful, that question is usually not asked in good faith.
On its own advocating against genocide doesn’t make one a Zionist. That question you phrased is usually made in bad faith to imply that Anti-Zionists fighting against occupation of Palestine are advocating the killing of the Jewish people already there. If one asks the question or states this with the intent of implying that Anti-Zionists are advocating violence towards jewish people, it is likely they are a Zionist, not for believing that people shouldn’t be killed but by making an implication in bad faith. An implication which is by nature a Zionist strawman.
The unfortunate is that there is a lot of blame directed towards the Jewish population for what is happening in Gaza. Being Jewish doesn’t magically mean that you have control of the Israeli government. The term “anti-zionist” is often used as a cover for people who hate the Jewish people rather than the leaders of the Israeli government.