Bernie Ecclestoned@sh.itjust.works to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months agoSee how Israel’s siege has plunged Gaza into darkness and isolationwww.washingtonpost.comexternal-linkmessage-square31fedilinkarrow-up1214arrow-down118
arrow-up1196arrow-down1external-linkSee how Israel’s siege has plunged Gaza into darkness and isolationwww.washingtonpost.comBernie Ecclestoned@sh.itjust.works to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months agomessage-square31fedilink
minus-squareprobablyaCat@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down7·8 months agoWhat do you mean when you say “a people”?
minus-squarescarabic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down7·edit-28 months ago“A people” is a way of referring to a group of people, a society. You could be more specific and say “the Jewish people” but it’s the same usage. Someone in fact called Palestine “A land without a people for a people without a land.” Is it making more sense now? *fixed autocorrect error
minus-squareQuokka@quokk.aulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down1·8 months agoYou couldn’t say that. You could say “the Israeli people”. What is going on here is not the actions of Jewish people.
minus-squarephotonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down27·8 months agoHe means the Jews. One good thing about this whole fiasco is it’s made the antisemites take their masks off.
minus-squareSatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17arrow-down6·8 months agoDo you think disagreeing with Israeli committing genocide on Palestine because of the atrocities of Hamas means you’re an antisemite?
minus-squarephotonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down5·8 months agoOf course not, but when someone says that “a people has waited with bated breath for this moment” it sounds a lot like you’re insinuating that jews wanted all of this to happen.
minus-squareWilzax@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down2·8 months agoA specific subset of jews, the Zionists, did. But the average Jew definitely condemns the violence and killing, even if not all of them do
minus-squareSatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down2·8 months agoI took the ‘a people’ to mean the Israelis who have seized this opportunity.
What do you mean when you say “a people”?
“A people” is a way of referring to a group of people, a society. You could be more specific and say “the Jewish people” but it’s the same usage.
Someone in fact called Palestine “A land without a people for a people without a land.”
Is it making more sense now?
*fixed autocorrect error
You couldn’t say that.
You could say “the Israeli people”. What is going on here is not the actions of Jewish people.
Okay sure.
He means the Jews. One good thing about this whole fiasco is it’s made the antisemites take their masks off.
Do you think disagreeing with Israeli committing genocide on Palestine because of the atrocities of Hamas means you’re an antisemite?
Of course not, but when someone says that “a people has waited with bated breath for this moment” it sounds a lot like you’re insinuating that jews wanted all of this to happen.
A specific subset of jews, the Zionists, did. But the average Jew definitely condemns the violence and killing, even if not all of them do
I took the ‘a people’ to mean the Israelis who have seized this opportunity.