I was just perusing the modlog when I noticed something interesting. Apparently posting news about Gaza/Palestine is not allowed on !worldnews@sh.itjust.works. I decided to check the side bar and didn’t see anything. The only pinned post also does not indicate that this is not allowed

edit: the mod in question is @Eyekaytee@aussie.zone . sorry for not originally tagging. i hadn’t realized it was a rule that this must be done. i thought it seemed inappropriate since i was trying to initiate a conversation about a community’s rules and culture rather than start drama about an individual

    • webghost0101@sopuli.xyz
      31·
      23 days ago

      What the hell even is a “Gaza head”

      How do you turn being upset about citizens being starved and killed in a systematic way into “feeling holier with hateful actions incapable of civil conversation”

      Seems pretty obvious that you yourself feel holier and are incapable of holding conversation if you dismiss basic respect for human life as hateful.

    • mrdown@lemmy.world
      232·
      24 days ago

      The hateful people are you defending a settler colonial power. Antisemite comments are removed in every post where it happen

    • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
      210·
      23 days ago

      Apparently there’s an unwritten rule of “no comments criticizing the anti-Israel movement” in this little corner of the internet.

      I think there’s some colloquialism involving pots and kettles that applies here. Or maybe throwing stones in glass houses?

      • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
        301·
        24 days ago

        Do you also require:

        • Palestinians denounce Hamas immediately
        • Ukrainians denounce Nazism immediately

        I’m Jewish, and I do not make my anti-Zionism a secret. But israel does not speak for all Jews, expecting all Jews to speak for israel is the type of isolating othering that makes people scared to live in the communities where they are. You can ask a Jewish organization what its stance is before donating or volunteering with them, but demanding Jews “own up” to Israel does the opposite of what you want. You have to understand there’s two major Jewish movements in response to anti-semitism. One is zionism, which maps directly to neocolonialism and the other is Doikayt which is coalition building.