Protesters are demanding the government reach a deal to bring the hostages back from Gaza, for new elections and the resignation of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

1:21 video shows the scale of the protest.

Shulamit Ron, Demonstrator: “We hope the world hears us: the people of Israel are not the government of Israel. We don’t agree with the policy; we don’t agree with the way they behave; and we want to have a different future.”

Roi Tzohar, Demonstrator: “The Israeli people are hostages to their right-wing government. The people of Gaza are hostages to Hamas. And, basically, there has to be a way to overcome that and to stop the fighting and the killing. This [demonstration?] is to give everybody hope.”

  • oce 🐆@jlai.luEnglish
    176·
    8 months ago

    Your knowledge might be incorrect, I believed that before too but it seems to have never been used like that, it has always been against the Jews. Word usage is sometimes not aligned with etymology.

    Due to the root word Semite, the term is prone to being invoked as a misnomer by those who incorrectly assert that it refers to racist hatred directed at “Semitic people” in spite of the fact that this grouping is an obsolete historical race concept. Likewise, such usage is erroneous; the compound word antisemitismus was first used in print in Germany in 1879[17] as a “scientific-sounding term” for Judenhass (lit. ‘Jew-hatred’),[18][19][20][21][22] and it has since been used to refer to anti-Jewish sentiment alone.[18][23][24]

    Bottom of the introduction https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism

      • oce 🐆@jlai.luEnglish
        78·
        8 months ago

        You said:

        antisemitism is used to refer to Jewish people, though it is really being used incorrectly.

        The present meaning as well as the original meaning when it was coined was referring to Jewish people, even if it doesn’t align with its etymology. So using it to name hate against Jewish people is correct.

        That also implies that using antisemitism to name hate against Arabic would be incorrect. Though you may try to redefine the term, write a couple of articles and books and maybe in 50 years it will be considered correct usage.

          • oce 🐆@jlai.luEnglish
            61·
            8 months ago

            I don’t think you have any agenda. I think nothing else that what I wrote, especially because I used to think like what you wrote before, so I wanted to help you and other readers with more information. I quoted what is the most obviously incorrect in your comment. The information you added now doesn’t change the fact that this quote is incorrect.

              • oce 🐆@jlai.luEnglish
                1·
                8 months ago

                I don’t assume anything about you, I’m strictly answering to your comment and nothing else. Considering the multiple sources backing up the claim in the Wikipedia article, I don’t think it’s just my opinion.