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Let's ask the world's leading expert in urban warfare, then: https://www.newsweek.com/israel-has-created-new-standard-urb... https://www.linkedin.com/posts/johnwspencer2018_israel-…

Save The Children estimates 50,000 births in Gaza in the first 9 months of the war, when the fighting was the most intense: https://www.savethechildren.net/news/women-self-inducing…

A) It's hard to argue that the war in Gaza was indiscriminate when the IDF achieved the highest combatant-to-civilian casualty ratio in the history of urban combat, despite Hamas h…

Zionism to me means that the Jews are entitled to self-determination, and that the modern state of Israel is the fulfillment of that promise. Anti-Zionism is the negation of that i…

Well I obviously don't believe they are committing genocide. If Israel wanted to commit genocide, why are there more Gazans alive today than this time two years ago? Israel could t…

> Israel has a right to annihilate Hamas How should they go about this? What rules should they follow? And when other countries violate these rules, are you commensurately outraged…

If the Palestinians are risking their lives to protest against Hamas in Gaza, why can't the alleged pro-Palestinian protesters demonstrate in support of this viewpoint?

Yes, they are called Neturei Karta, and there are maybe 100 of them out there. But it doesn't matter who is espousing the idea: just because a Jew says something doesn't make it _n…

1. OK, great: this is a legitimate argument against the existence of Israel. So we can then expect Israel to be the focus of 0.5% of anti-nationalist protests, since it is one of ~…

> If anything negative you can say about Israel is equated to antisemitism then Israel gets a free pass. I am not arguing this. Everyone is free to criticize Israel; when it become…

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But surely they count as genocide for you, because hitting a hospital with an airstrike is the test, right?

The US led airstrikes on hospitals in Afghanistan and Iraq. NATO forces struck hospitals in Yugoslavia. Were those genocides too?

I could link-dump on you too, but that doesn't make for a very interesting discussion. Why do you think it constitutes a genocide? What argument do you find convincing among those …

Declaring something a "fact" without presenting evidence doesn't make it true. If we're talking about genocide, a clear, deliberate mass extermination campaign is usually what's me…

You and I must be operating with different sets of facts if this merits a one syllable response for you. With all due humility and intellectual curiosity, why is it obviously never…

Well, partial good news, then: we have a secular, pluralistic state that covers at least most of that territory, namely the State of Israel, and the Jews, Christians Muslims and Dr…

Accusing Israel of genocide is very often antisemitic, though, since it typically involves holding Jews to a different standard than everyone else. Why do you presume that it is ob…

Criticizing Israel is not antisemitism, and nobody is arguing that. Holding Israel to a double standard or denying Jews the right to self-determination is however broadly considere…

If the protests about Israel were largely about their treatment of Palestinians, why did the world erupt in protest against Israel, largely in unison, mere hours after they were in…

Great, so we're in agreement: Gaza has forfeited its right to statehood after committing the October 7th massacre, literally aimed at destroying Israel. Quoting the Hamas spokesman…

There are many legitimate possible criticisms of the state of Israel, and protesting around those criticisms is a frequent occurrence within Israel. But how many protests have you …

Well, it depends on why you're protesting against Israel. If you're supporting the dismantlement of the only Jewish state, like Hamas is, then you are in a precarious situation: wh…