So kites are anti-semitic now? It’s becoming quite difficult to keep up.
I hear offering prosthetic services to Palestinian kids is also anti semitic.
>UKLFI had pointed out that the Palestinian themed kites were not only reminiscent of the burning kites sent into Israel in 2018, which set light to and destroyed thousands of acres of Israeli agricultural crops, but also a grim reminder of the horrific machine gun wielding terrorists who used paragliders to enter Israel where they slaughtered dozens of music festival goers on 7 October 2023.
A kite-making workshop. Kites.
Hopefully we’ll ban aeroplanes soon, obviously they are anti American because they were used in a terrorist attack, busses and tube trains also.
That’s the logic.
Did someone mishear the word “kites” on this one and fear the worst?
Just so that everyone is clear. Anybody not Jewish is potentially antisemitic.
Although being Jewish you still have the potential to be a self hating Jew. /S
There is actual real anti semitism that exists, However if you cry antisemitic at everything, yes you may deflect what the IDF are doing in the short term. Unfortunately this does not solve issues for the long term.
30,000 palestinians bombed to death in Gaza, and people feel threatened by a kite workshop?
This is just another way to marginalise and cancel anything that raises awareness of the palestinian cause.
Anyone that doesn’t agree that palestinians should be wiped off the face of the earth is an “antisemite” now apparently.
Breathing and eating is antisemitic, because Palestinians (who are semitic) also do that and they haven’t all been genocided yet.
Arabs are one of the Semitic people.
Being antisemitic means you’re hating on more than Jews.
Whenever someone hates on an Arab or a Jew, they’re being antisemitic.
There are two exceptions to this rule, however.
1. You can hate on Jerry Seinfeld for Bee Movie.
2. You can freely curse Ibrahim from West Midlands Motors, who sold me a Tesla with a Baghdad Battery in it instead of the normal Lithium Ion ones.
Kites have been a feature of the protests in reference to the Poem by Palestinian Poet Refaat Alareer who was killed in an air strike a few weeks ago:
**If I Must Die**
If I must die,
you must live
to tell my story
to sell my things
to buy a piece of cloth
and some strings,
(make it white with a long tail)
so that a child, somewhere in Gaza
while looking heaven in the eye
awaiting his dad who left in a blaze —
and bid no one farewell
not even to his flesh
not even to himself —
sees the kite, my kite you made, flying up above,
and thinks for a moment an angel is there
bringing back love.
If I must die
let it bring hope,
let it be a story.
Wow….so all those Corbyn supporters who highlighted that anything not pro-Israel was deemed anti-Semitic were…….right
Meanwhile, Tory MPs are wearing **IDF DOGTAGS** in Parliament. If a kite is problematic because it may remind people of an attack on plants, then the dogtags are surely Islamophobic.
Seeing the comments already here, it looks like I’ll be slated for this BUT
As soon as I saw this I thought of the paragliders, especially with the story of a few people being arrested for holding up signs with paraglider pictures on recently. It’s not a massive stretch. And the article points out that kites were sent into Israel to burn crops a few years back as well.
Seems to me that’s it’s not WILD to believe this COULD be pro-hamas, especially as we have seen instances before. If the Saudis held a paper airplane competition a month after 9-11 it would look a bit dodgy too.
Why not just change the event theme?
Want to make clear that I think it should be allowed to go ahead. Even if it is a subtle nod then it’s subtle enough that it should be given the benefit of the doubt in my eyes.
EDIT: Turns out the kites are a symbol from a Palestinian poet who died in an airstrike. Absolutely ridiculous to shut this down and call it antisemitic then. And there is good reason to want to maintain the theme.
Feels like between Bibi trying to save his own skin and the feeling that with Gen Z it is the first true generation not all that down with not questioning the apartheid aspect of the Zionist project that the desperation is starting to just look embarrassing. The gig is slowly coming to an end and they know it.
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So kites are anti-semitic now? It’s becoming quite difficult to keep up.
I hear offering prosthetic services to Palestinian kids is also anti semitic.
>UKLFI had pointed out that the Palestinian themed kites were not only reminiscent of the burning kites sent into Israel in 2018, which set light to and destroyed thousands of acres of Israeli agricultural crops, but also a grim reminder of the horrific machine gun wielding terrorists who used paragliders to enter Israel where they slaughtered dozens of music festival goers on 7 October 2023.
A kite-making workshop. Kites.
Hopefully we’ll ban aeroplanes soon, obviously they are anti American because they were used in a terrorist attack, busses and tube trains also.
That’s the logic.
Did someone mishear the word “kites” on this one and fear the worst?
Just so that everyone is clear. Anybody not Jewish is potentially antisemitic.
Although being Jewish you still have the potential to be a self hating Jew. /S
There is actual real anti semitism that exists, However if you cry antisemitic at everything, yes you may deflect what the IDF are doing in the short term. Unfortunately this does not solve issues for the long term.
30,000 palestinians bombed to death in Gaza, and people feel threatened by a kite workshop?
This is just another way to marginalise and cancel anything that raises awareness of the palestinian cause.
Anyone that doesn’t agree that palestinians should be wiped off the face of the earth is an “antisemite” now apparently.
Breathing and eating is antisemitic, because Palestinians (who are semitic) also do that and they haven’t all been genocided yet.
Arabs are one of the Semitic people.
Being antisemitic means you’re hating on more than Jews.
Whenever someone hates on an Arab or a Jew, they’re being antisemitic.
There are two exceptions to this rule, however.
1. You can hate on Jerry Seinfeld for Bee Movie.
2. You can freely curse Ibrahim from West Midlands Motors, who sold me a Tesla with a Baghdad Battery in it instead of the normal Lithium Ion ones.
Kites have been a feature of the protests in reference to the Poem by Palestinian Poet Refaat Alareer who was killed in an air strike a few weeks ago:
**If I Must Die**
If I must die,
you must live
to tell my story
to sell my things
to buy a piece of cloth
and some strings,
(make it white with a long tail)
so that a child, somewhere in Gaza
while looking heaven in the eye
awaiting his dad who left in a blaze —
and bid no one farewell
not even to his flesh
not even to himself —
sees the kite, my kite you made, flying up above,
and thinks for a moment an angel is there
bringing back love.
If I must die
let it bring hope,
let it be a story.
Wow….so all those Corbyn supporters who highlighted that anything not pro-Israel was deemed anti-Semitic were…….right
Meanwhile, Tory MPs are wearing **IDF DOGTAGS** in Parliament. If a kite is problematic because it may remind people of an attack on plants, then the dogtags are surely Islamophobic.
Seeing the comments already here, it looks like I’ll be slated for this BUT
As soon as I saw this I thought of the paragliders, especially with the story of a few people being arrested for holding up signs with paraglider pictures on recently. It’s not a massive stretch. And the article points out that kites were sent into Israel to burn crops a few years back as well.
Seems to me that’s it’s not WILD to believe this COULD be pro-hamas, especially as we have seen instances before. If the Saudis held a paper airplane competition a month after 9-11 it would look a bit dodgy too.
Why not just change the event theme?
Want to make clear that I think it should be allowed to go ahead. Even if it is a subtle nod then it’s subtle enough that it should be given the benefit of the doubt in my eyes.
EDIT: Turns out the kites are a symbol from a Palestinian poet who died in an airstrike. Absolutely ridiculous to shut this down and call it antisemitic then. And there is good reason to want to maintain the theme.
Feels like between Bibi trying to save his own skin and the feeling that with Gen Z it is the first true generation not all that down with not questioning the apartheid aspect of the Zionist project that the desperation is starting to just look embarrassing. The gig is slowly coming to an end and they know it.