https://feddit.org/post/12851368
https://feddit.org/post/12529640
due to the previously communicated defamation campaign by quokk.au, which was later followed by defederation by them after we requested them to remove their censure, we have now defederated from quokk.au.
One of the triggers for the current debate is this post, which followed the removal of a comment comparing National Socialism with the current situation in Israel, which can be considered a trivialization of National Socialism. Such statements can, among other things, lead to imprisonment. Among other things, the post claimed that the removal had a Zionist motive, an accusation that should always be supported by appropriate evidence and prior to which it should be ruled out that there are alternative explanations.
We will not be removing every comment that goes even remotely in this direction, but we reserve the right to permanently ban users from feddit.org who make unfounded accusations, such as labeling our instance, admins, moderators, or other users as Nazis or Zionists, without substantial supporting arguments. This is especially the case when this is recurring behavior and not an isolated incident.
If this censure by quokk.au is not withdrawn in a timely manner, we will defederate quokk.au from our side for these unsubstantiated and untrue accusations.
I am a lot more tolerant about calling the Israeli government and Israeli fascists Nazis. Semantically, one could make arguments against it, but at this time and day, I’d agree, I have no intention to defend them - they deserve the hatred.
Now, if someone calls the entirety of Zionism, or every Israeli Jew a Nazi is something I oppose. This would be a massive inversion of reality and I don’t want to see that rhetoric on my instance. I know there is nuance and there are a number of things I’d be willing to concede - but I am glad that the most hateful and deranged comments get removed. What this quokk.au admin said is certainly in the territory of being deranged.
I would instead ask you to stop pitting two people’s struggles against each other. We would never compare different types of struggles the same way. One thing is bad. Another thing is worse. But that second thing does not make the first thing okay. Especially when you have the privilege of not being part of either group. If you acknowledge that misusing Nazi labels (on the people oppressed by the Nazis) is wrong, then it follows that you cannot justify doing that by saying that there are other people who are worse off.
I hope we can concur that in this discussion, neither of us are helping the Palestinians in any kind of form. This whole thread is about a toxic lemmy admin who victimized themself for suffering consequences for their violent/insulting language. I’d feel a lot more comfortable in pro-palestinian spaces that can do without this sort of toxicity.
I would be first in line to die on the hill if it was about letting the Jewish people have their own state, everyone has that right. But the original comment wasn’t about anything against that, the comment wasn’t hateful. It was just arguing a perspective arguing that weapons funding should be cut to the Israeli state to help mitigate the genocide that they are propagating.
I can’t argue for what happened afterwards in-between the admins, but the removal of the comment was unnecessary. Instead of invalidating an arguable issue, it was conversely invalidating the genocide of another group of humans (is it because they are brown?) in an effort to aggressively enforce a law. Whatever the law is, it needs updating from holocaust to genocide in general, otherwise you are picking which skin colored people you are okay with being murdered on mass.
When it comes to the usage of Nazi as a label, the intent matters grossly. If someone was doing this just to satisfy some morbid requirement (like Russia is with Ukraine) then it’s obviously wrong, But even there, I think that’s a different matter than holocaust denial, it doesn’t hurt the Jewish people as much as a state that represents them committing mass murder does. A lot of people died in the holocaust besides the Jewish people you know? And the Nazis were responsible for a lot more atrocities than just that. The Label isn’t just for the Jewish people’s struggle. Being a Nazi is about being a race supremacist and genociding people.
Israel couldn’t exists without mass displacement and israel was funded because of zionism which they did. Israel since it’s creation been oppresing palestinians and comiting war crime. Saying that we should just condemn Natanyaho is ignoring facts