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Beastly Boy

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2. My point is
Wed Apr 17, 2024, 01:03 PM
Apr 2024

that "Zionist", "Apartheid", "genocide", "ethnic cleansing", etc., being used predominantly in reference to Israel, have become mere code words to deride Israel, and they no longer convey any other meaningful information. The intention behind using these labels in this way is to normalize them as insults whose originally intended meaning is not to be mentioned or acknowledged, even though examples like the one above and established definitions of these terms routinely repudiate such attempts.

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