TIL it’s antisemitic when you object to the wholesale slaughter of unarmed civilians.

Totally natural response in this situation. You are offended, so I should cut your head off. That’s normal everyday behavior right there folks, who doesn’t threatened to cut their friends heads off from time to time, or their relatives? Its just water cooler talk…Nothing to see here, move along. /s

Reese, a seventh-grade social studies teacher, allegedly replied that he was a Jew and had relatives who lived in Israel. The student said “Israelis killing Palestinians” made the flag offensive, which prompted Reese to accuse her of being antisemitic.

WMAZ reported that several different witnesses then heard Reese, 51, say he would “kick [the] student’s fucking ass, slit her goddamn throat … drag her ass outside and cut her head off”.

Wow. You know, as a therapist, I have to deal with hearing political opinions I disagree with (sometimes vehemently) relatively often, so I’m familiar with how aggravating it can be, but it would never even remotely occur to me to threaten one of my patients with physical violence for even the most horrid opinions they expressed. On the contrary, I’ve always been motivated to engage them with questions that challenge their opinions (although, as a therapist, I often have to resist that impulse, because it’s not my place to challenge my patients political opinions). For this teacher to threaten their student for such a comparatively mild political objection suggests they either (a) should never have become a teacher, because they lack the required temperament and/or mindset or (b) had a truly bad trigger moment in which they lost control of themselves, indicating a need for further training and suspension from their job.

Sad that political events in the Middle East are having such effects across the globe. Understandable, but sad nonetheless.

Very normal Zionist behavior.

Holy shit, thank goodness that teacher was removed from the classroom and hopefully permanently removed from teaching before they did something REALLY regrettable!

When I worked in technology at a middle school campus, the teachers would sometimes ask me to come into the classroom and teach the students about my family members who died in the Holocaust. I don’t know if you’ve ever met a teenager before, but they sometimes say rude or horrible things without considering the effects their words could have.

The correct response to this kind of stuff is to reach the kids, speak truthfully, and give them credit that they have the ability to grasp such difficult concepts. I would list my family members who died in concentration camps, show interviews with family members who survived, read excerpts from family members who escaped, but I’d never tell a child they were antisemitic because they didn’t understand how much their questions sometimes hurt me.

When I’d discuss my family who live in Israel and they’d ask how I feel about the Israeli conflict with Palestine, I’d essentially tell them that if it looks, walks, and quacks like a duck, then it’s probably an apartheid state. I’d tell them to not discredit their feelings just because they’re young: if something seems wrong or feels wrong about how someone is treating someone else, then it probably really is wrong and you should absolutely say something about it. I would frequently remind kids that history doesn’t always repeat itself but it frequently rhymes and would mention that, if you listen carefully, you’ll notice that “no one wants to the Palestinians, even other Muslim countries refuse to take them as refugees” almost perfectly rhymes with “die juden sind unser ungluck.”

Side note: anyone who tells you that surrounding countries don’t want to accept the Palestinians doesn’t seem to understand that accepting refugees so that you can bomb an entire country is essentially giving approval to bomb an entire fucking country

Finally, to my Zionist relatives and any other Zionists I know: you are wrong — granting peace and recognizing Palestinians will not lead to your demise. Every single one of my cousins who say that the Palestinians overbreed and will take over the elections might as well get “14/88” tattooed across their foreheads. And if you find yourself in a situation where you’re being called an antisemite because you oppose a fucking war and literal genocide without exploring further discussion, I suggest you respond with this quote:

[You] must not investigate the truth objectively and, in so far as it is favorable to the other side, present it according to the theoretical rules of justice; yet it must present only that aspect of the truth which is favorable to its own side.

Incredibly profound and succinct quote from a pretty fucking horrible human of an author. Those are instructions for propaganda taken from Mein Kampf.

Average zionist response.

That’s my trashy state for you

hingedest Zionist

Well that is a totally sane response. /s

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Love all the pearl clutching going on in these threads by kids who scream racist obscenities into their headsets. Comedy gold.