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Beastly Boy

(12,674 posts)
1. Two totally unrelated topics.
Mon May 26, 2025, 01:38 AM
May 26

No, a dozen or so Holocaust survivors and their families demonstrating in London against war in Gaza and calling it "genocide" is not antisemitic. I have no idea why this question would occur to your friend whom you are asking for. The answer is pretty obvious.

It is ridiculous to state that the population that now lives in Gaza was displaced. The overwhelming majority of the population in Gaza was born there since 1950. There were fewer than 450,000 people living in Gaza in 1950, and nearly 2 million in 2022. (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data:Gaza_strip_population_history.chart) Given that 40% of Gaza population is under the age of 14 (https://www.pcbs.gov.ps/portals/_pcbs/PressRelease/Press_En_IntPopulationDy2023E.pdf), nearly the entire population living in Gaza today were born in Gaza.

You see, it IS possible to talk reasonably without using words like "antisemitic". But you couldn't resist, could you?

And based on participation requirements you stated in your post, it appears you just excluded yourself from this discussion.

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