Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg is the world’s second most dangerous antisemite, several spots ahead of white nationalist Nick Fuentes, according to a new report from the Israeli government.

The report contains an analysis of 10 “prominent influencers in the global anti-semitic and anti-Zionist arena in 2025, who were selected based on both the severity of their actions/statements and the scope of their influence.” While outside organizations have created similar rankings of antisemitic influencers, this appears to be the first one published by the Israeli government.

As evidence of Thunberg’s antisemitism, the Israeli government pointed to her use of “terms such as ‘genocide,’ ‘siege’ and ‘mass starvation’ in reference to Israel’s actions in Gaza.”

  • 🍉 DrRedOctopus 🐙🍉@lemmy.world
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    Bundists here.

    It will never, EVER, be antisemitic to stand against genocide, it will never be antisemitic to put your live at risk to feed the hungry.

    She is embodies the most important Jewish values, “tikun olam”, to fix the world.

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      Unfortunately, in every sense of the word, Israelis are “semites”. Being a “semite” isn’t a value judgement and trying to dismiss the label of antisemitism because of Israel’s misuse of the word is not that smart.

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          They speak a semitic language and their supposed biblical stemfather is Shem. Those are the two definitions of a semitic people. Whether a large part of Israeli Jews have European ancestry is irrelevant to what a semite is.

          Again, semite isn’t a value judgement.

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            a fake language thats so new some people are older than it. “supposed stemfather” i guess it was like promised to them 3000 years ago too whether the entire ancestry of Israelis is European is very relevant.

            they are not native nor have any connection to the land nor semites in any way shape or form unless you go back hundreds of thousands of years.

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              Mate. Semite is defined in two ways. One is the definition of 18th century scholars, who classified every arab and Jew as Semites because their biblical stemfather is Shem. And the modern definition of “speaking a semitic language”. And according to both, Israelis are semites.

              Whatever you define as a semite is not tied to anything right now.

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                  Hebrew is a reconstructed language and a semitic one. The majority of Israelis have European ancestry or have been lured in from there, but there are also middle eastern Jews among them. Which once again, has nothing to do with the definition of semites.

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          Being a Muslim is not an ethnicity, it’s a religion. Neither is being German, it’s a nationality. Despite the ideology around the maternal line, there are many different ethnicities among Jewish people in “Israel” alone. Many of which experience intense racism by white European Jews, often based on their skin color.

          Being a German during the Nazi rule came with the immense privilege of profiting from forced labor, stolen land, stolen resources, getting to live in or sell the houses of victims of the Holocaust, getting to go through their stuff and steal it and much more. Just being a German in Germany was very much morally problematic unless you take very concrete steps to reject this privilege. Migrating, resisting, hiding people, etc.

          It’s the same for white people now. Just being white is a huge privilege, that comes with the responsibility to reject that privilege and use it to help racialized people. The same goes for abled people, neurotypical people, cis people, people in imperial core countries and so on.

          Within any religion, there’s a contrast between institutions and personal believes. Being Jewish in today’s world comes with the privilege of being able to move to occupied Palestine, steal land, steal a house and the stuff in it, profit from cheap apartheid labor, etc. It’s a privilege to even just have this option, even if it is not used. This privilege has nothing to do with private believes, but it is actively and monetarily supported by many (not all) Jewish institutions. Being Jewish today therefore comes with the responsibility to reject those institutions (not the believes) and to build Jewish institutions, that do not aid genocide. That’s why it is a relevant category to speak of, but, as you said, not to criticize in general, as that would be antisemitic.