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At least 206 Jewish anti-Israel protesters were arrested Monday after hundreds rushed the New York Stock Exchange and staged a sit-in outside the Manhattan landmark, police said.

Scores of pro-Palestinian protesters wearing red shirts stormed toward the building on Broad Street in Lower Manhattan — then chained themselves to the doors just before the stock market’s opening bell at 9:30 a.m., footage shows.

A handful of demonstrators, who hail from the Jewish Voices for Peace group, could be seen removing their jackets as they set up shop outside the building — jackets they wore in a possible bid to conceal their anti-Israel attire and thwart any attempt to stop them ahead of time.

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 76 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Can I say as a JVFP member that this sort of sarcasm is really not helpful to us? Even when it's sarcastic, it still plays into the idea that if you're Jewish you support/should support Israel.

One of the things we're trying to do is work against that stereotype to show that wanting to end genocide has nothing to do with one's ethnicity.

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 30 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

it still plays into the idea that if you're Jewish you support/should support Israel.

Even if my intent is that I'm explicitly mocking that idea for being bullshit?

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 48 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yes. It should not be brought up at all. There are plenty of other ways to respond to this action.

As an example in a similar situation, I'm hoping you wouldn't say of a similarly protesting Palestinian group that you guess they're all terrorists. Even in sarcasm.

It's not productive. It doesn't convince any actual person who would say that in earnest that they're wrong. What they'll do, if anything, is say "yes, but seriously."

On top of that, Israel wants people to think Jew = Israeli. Just putting that grain of thought in people's heads can result in bad things over time.

So there are better responses. Even if you want to express this specific sentiment in a sardonic way. "Watch Israel call this antisemitism" would be one way to go.

I hope that makes sense.

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 26 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

That's fair. I think the example doesn't fully fix it though. I'll come up with something that might even be considered funny (by someone, I'm sure) eventually