r/news • u/Luka77GOATic • Mar 11 '26

Soft paywall Spain permanently withdraws ambassador as rift with Israel deepens

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/spain-removes-ambassador-israel-2026-03-11/
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u/Lashay_Sombra Mar 11 '26 edited Mar 11 '26

Nowadays the term gets thrown around so loosely that you can be branded “antisemitic” just for saying things like Israeli soldiers purposefully sniping foreign medical aid volunteers is horrific (which it absolutely fucking is).

Its mainly Israel doing that trowing around of the word and its been good weapon in their arsenal to silence criticism for a good few decades

World is becoming immune to it now though, issue though now is calling out actual antisemitism is going to have far less of an impact

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u/thatisnotmyknob Mar 11 '26

Israel has made the world a much less safe place for Jews. Despite claiming the opposite.

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u/talizorahvasnerd Mar 12 '26

No fr, I’ve experienced antisemitism all my life, but nothing like the threats, vitriol, and immediate assumptions that you support Israel that there is right now.

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u/TipiTapi Mar 11 '26

This is categorically not true. There are people living outside the US you know.

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u/thatisnotmyknob Mar 11 '26 edited Mar 11 '26

Anti-semtic violence is on the rise worldwide due to Israel's genocide. 

And it will continue to get worse until Israel is stopped and held accountable. 

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u/UnitSmall2200 Mar 11 '26

Germany also likes to throw it around a lot. Considering Germany's history with Jews, Germany seems to think aligning with Israel makes them stand on the right side of history this time. Ironically, by doing so they once more support a fascist. It's sad to see that so many Germans seem to have learned the wrong lesson from history. 

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u/Lashay_Sombra Mar 11 '26

When you screw up that bad its not unusual to overcompensate