• Dataprolet@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    5 days ago

    This is discrimination, the people of Israel are not their government. You wouldn’t punish Russians for Putin’s actions. And it will definitely not help a single Palestinian.

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      5 days ago

      Except… We are punishing Russians? That’s half the point of sanctions, causing economic pain to the people in order to (hopefully) compel the government of said people to play nice.

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      4 days ago

      We did punish Russians for putin’s actions. Anyone keeping silent is a tacit accomplice

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      5 days ago

      Yeah like you give a shit about Palestinians. Them being genocided and living under apartheid colonization, it would be a bad joke to call that just discrimination. Of course it’s right to put pressure on the people doing that to the PalestiniansY

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        5 days ago

        And the people of the USA are not the US government and yet I’m boycotting all US products. I feel really bad about it sometimes because some US products I’m no longer buying come from small, ethical (on paper at least) employee owned companies. But as someone who is not in the US, this is the only action I can take in response to the US government.

        If people from Israel would like to holiday in the Maldives then they have a bit of work to do. Step 1 is to overthrow their fascist government.