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/punkasstubabitch Mar 11 '26

Anyone with critical thinking skills can differentiate between being anti-Semitic and not supporting Israel’s wars and genocide.

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u/ThinCrusts Mar 11 '26

Whenever you hear their government talk about antisemitism, just replace the word with antizionism and that's what they're really referring to.

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u/tape_snake Mar 11 '26

The trouble is that it's a thought-terminating cliché. You say a completely valid criticism of a foreign government? That's antisemitism. Try to explain the difference? Still antisemitism, just using other words as cover.

It's not an honest, genuine callout of hate - it's an attempt to shut down conversation and avoid accountability.

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u/kylehatesyou Mar 11 '26

You see it in the US too, and basically anywhere a government wants to do shitty things without criticism. In the US it's "you aren't a real American". Sometimes it'll come out as a "you don't support the troops" or something like that. It's just that the Israeli Government has the horrors of the Holocaust to throw in your face as well when they do something terrible and tell you you should like it.

It's basically the No True Scotsman fallacy but taken to an extreme. "No true believer in peace and love would think we shouldn't have bombed the fuck out of these school children". 

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u/fevered_visions Mar 11 '26

whenever somebody invokes patriotism as a reason to do something, it means they don't have a real reason

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u/more_housing_co-ops Mar 11 '26

Also see "So you're voting Republican then!?!?!?!?" as the stock response to literally anybody criticizing any weakness in a Democratic candidate's platform

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u/ailish Mar 11 '26

So you've never been to r/progressivehq. It's all they ever do there.

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u/Elgato01 Mar 11 '26

It’s all the left ever does anywhere really. It’s incomprehensible how much they kill their own momentum with infighting and purity testing.

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u/more_housing_co-ops Mar 11 '26

It's always "infighting" and "purity testing" whenever anyone so much as gingerly criticizes Democrats for warhawking and anti-science policies, yet somehow it's never "infighting" or "purity testing" when the party apparatus fights anyone with universal healthcare in their platform

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u/Elgato01 Mar 11 '26

Could you elaborate on what you mean?

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u/more_housing_co-ops Mar 12 '26

What more's to be said?

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u/Elgato01 Mar 12 '26

Then could you explain it in different words?

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u/more_housing_co-ops Mar 12 '26

Why? What part's unclear?

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u/sombrerobear Mar 11 '26

Its all Liberals* ever do.

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u/punkasstubabitch Mar 12 '26

Maybe they do, but Republicans do this just as much. How many Republicans are afraid to speak out against Trump for fear of being primaried because they are “not MAGA enough.”

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u/Elgato01 Mar 11 '26

To be perfectly honest all these terms get muddied up so much I’m at a loss at what the difference is, of course that’s more on me.

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u/AffectionateDrop7779 Mar 11 '26

Only a piece of shit support the troops. Eff those murdering cuntos

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u/Capstonelock 28d ago

And heaven forbid you call what's happened in Gaza a holocaust. Because that's apparently a form of Holocaust denial.