I don't get what's so hard to understand about why a people that's existed a lot longer than the State of Israel and had stuff in our language(s) banned before might not be real comfortable with the idea that the way to fight Israeli human rights abuses is to ban Hebrew.
And before anyone jumps in to mansplain the language politics of modern Hebrew, yes, I fucking know.
And also that is not *all* Hebrew is, and that's DEFINITELY not what Hebrew is to most gentiles.
And also that is not *all* Hebrew is, and that's DEFINITELY not what Hebrew is to most gentiles.
They're not parsing "this specific dialect of Hebrew and its relationship to specific concepts of Jewish nationalism"
They're parsing "Jewish language = Zionism."
They're parsing "Jewish language = Zionism."
And, like, a Jew doing this? Might read a little differently, might leave room for nuance.
An Irish gentile? No.
An Irish gentile? No.
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