• filister@lemmy.world
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    Can someone ELI5 how this isn’t recognised as a terrorism?

    Notwithstanding this flood of official condemnations, the authorities do not appear to be in any hurry to bring the perpetrators to justice; only one person was arrested in the aftermath of the attack, and subsequently released. Settler impunity has long been the norm: according to data from the Israeli human rights group Yesh Din, 97 percent of police files opened into cases of settler violence since 2005 have been closed without convictions.

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      In Israel it’s because Israel as a state actively supports settlements. This is why Palestinians don’t just shoot settlers; when you do that the IDF comes.

      Outside Israel it’s because that would he “antisemitism”.

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        More specifically, it’s the definition of antisemitism that the zionist lobby wants you to believe. Standing up for a people’s right is somehow hateful for the other group yet they don’t bat an eye to actual, true antisemitism. That’s because when the IHRA definition was adopted, pro-Palestinian movements are now defined as antisemitism in the reports, resulting in a massive sea of noise, resulting in actual antisemitism cases being looked at much less.

        Funny how a foreign lobby claiming to fight antisemitism ironically has cases where actual antisemites aren’t prosecuted for their crimes.