@calfoxwc said:

The trouble is, how can anyone tell the difference between simple criticism and antisemitism?

  The slurs about "genocide" towards Israel is antisemitism, since it is completely bogus, since the same people don't use it for hamas's war crimes in the surprise, unwarranted invasion on Oct. 7th

My apologies for answering more than a year later, but if I can read older threads then so can other newcomers, and so I would just like to offer an answer to that very reasonable question posed by "Calfoxwc":
 

What is the difference between simple criticism (of Israel) and antisemitism?

Firstly, how to recognize "Palestinian" Arab Falsehood-Propaganda:
False-claims / false accusations / conspiracy theories against: "Israel" / the "Jews" / "Zionists", often as stock-phrases, insulting the reader's intelligence by being provided with: 
No detail(s), no objective-sources; zero evidence.

When are falsehoods, often alleged as “criticism”, against Jews/Israel, typically due to anti-Semitism?:
UNSUBSTANTIATED-allegations that insult the reader’s intelligence, by being typically-alleged, with: 
No detail(s), no objective-sources; zero evidence. 

@jax said:

Imagine these nitwits in due time will run for gov't seats.

I don't think they can be personable enough to win anything but they can swing money around if they got it. George Soros is a goblin but he is a rich goblin.

@logicisforsquares said:

If these kids doing performative activism realized how the game is played, they would start a lobby and use mommy and daddy’s money to start buying politicians. They are all for sale.

Imagine these nitwits in due time will run for gov't seats.

@vaportrail said:

lol, now the GOP neocons are threatening officials from the Hague and their families. Israelis can try to throw Netanyahu in prison and none of them bat an eye, but if someone else tries it, they'll have to answer to America. These politicians are owned by AIPAC. ? HONK HONK

If these kids doing performative activism realized how the game is played, they would start a lobby and use mommy and daddy’s money to start buying politicians. They are all for sale.

@mld-woody said:

https://apnews.com/article/israel-aljazeera-hamas-gaza-war-eba9416aea82f505ab908ee60d1de5e4

Nothing says "free press" like kicking press you don't like out of the country...

not a "free press". Not "don't like".

Just dishonest, pro hamas, pro radical islamists, pro-dishonesty.

You are completely unable to contribute anything legit to any discussion.

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Israeli–Palestinian conflict

During the Second Intifada, Palestinians killed by Israelis were referred to as "martyrs"; Israelis killed by Palestinians were not.^[156]

Israel announced a "boycott" of the Arabic broadcaster on 13 March 2008, accusing it of bias in its coverage of the Gaza Strip conflict and toward Hamas.^[157] Israeli government employees declined interviews and denied visa applications for the organization's staff. Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Majalli Wahabi accused it of focusing on Palestinian suffering and ignoring that of Israel: "We have seen that Al-Jazeera has become part of Hamas ... [sic] taking sides and cooperating with people who are enemies of the state of Israel."^[157] According to Israeli officials, Al-Jazeera covered the Gaza incursion but not Palestinian rocket attacks against the Israeli city of Ashkelon. Wahabi said that the Israeli Foreign Ministry would send letters of complaint to the organization and the Qatari government. Officials of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah party has accused Al-Jazeera of bias toward Hamas (with which it is at political loggerheads), and Fatah official Mohammed Dahlan sued the broadcaster.^{[158][159][65][160][161][162]} Al-Jazeera agreed to discuss its coverage of Mideast conflict, and the issue has apparently been settled.^[163]

In February 2009, Israel again imposed sanctions on Al Jazeera after Qatar closed the Israeli trade office in Doha in protest against the Gaza War. Israel had considered declaring Al Jazeera a hostile entity and shutting its Israeli offices, but after a legal review the Israeli government decided to impose limited measures restricting the organization's activities in the country. All Al Jazeera employees would not have their visas renewed, and the Israeli government would issue no new visas. Al Jazeera staff would not be allowed to attend government briefings; its access to government and military offices was reduced, and it could not interview Knesset members. The organization would only have access to three agencies: representatives of the Prime Minister's Office, the Foreign Ministry, and the IDF Spokesperson's Unit.^[164]

On 15 July of that year, the Palestinian National Authority (PA) closed down Al Jazeera's offices in the West Bank in an apparent response to claims made on the channel by Farouk Kaddoumi that PA president Mahmoud Abbas had been involved in the death of Yasser Arafat. The Palestinian Information Ministry called the organization's coverage "unbalanced" and accused it of incitement against the PLO and the PA.^[165] Four days later, Abbas rescinded the ban and allowed Al Jazeera to resume operations.^[166]

In August 2011, Afghan bureau chief Samer Allawi was arrested by Israeli authorities and charged with being a member of Hamas.^[167] Walied Al-Omary, Al Jazeera bureau chief in Israel and the Palestinian territories, said that a military court accused Allawi of making contact with members of Hamas' armed wing.^[168] The Committee to Protect Journalists Middle East and North Africa program coordinator Mohamed Abdel Dayem stated that "Israel must clarify why it continues to hold Samer Allawi."^[169][170] Allawi was imprisoned for over a month and fined $1,400 after pleading guilty to meeting with Hamas, a militant group viewed as terrorist by Israel and most of the West.^{[171][172][173][174][175][176][177]} In 2013, UN researcher Nicola Perugini was accused by UN Watch of fabricating a United Nations Human Rights Council session in his Al Jazeera article about the latest UNHRC report on Israeli settlements.^[178]

During the 2023 Israel-Hamas war, Al Jazeera was conducting an interview with a wounded Gazan resident, who blamed Hamas hiding amongst civilians for his wounds; Al Jazeera promptly ended the interview.^{[179][180][181]}

Al Jazeera has also been accused of pushing Hamas propaganda, repeatedly broadcasting statements by Hamas' military and political leaders calling for a broader uprising and aligning themselves closely with Hamas' preferred language for the conflict.^[182] In addition, Israel accused several journalists of Al Jazeera of assisting or commanding Hamas units in their fight against Israel.^[183][184]

Al Jazeera cameraman Samer Abu Daqqa was killed by an Israeli airstrike on 15 December 2023 targeting Al Jazeera bureau chief Wael Al-Dahdouh, who was also injured during the strike.^{[185][186][187]}

The IDF accused one of Al Jazeera's journalists in Gaza of being a deputy commander for Hamas and released images of him handling various weaponry.^[188][189]

In late March 2024, Al Jazeera published a story alleging that IDF soldiers have committed rape at al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza. After an investigation by Hamas, it was found that the story was fabricated by a Gazan woman who wanted to "arouse the nation's favor". Subsequently, Al Jazeera removed all relevant material without releasing a formal retraction.^[190][191]""

@mld-woody said:

https://apnews.com/article/israel-aljazeera-hamas-gaza-war-eba9416aea82f505ab908ee60d1de5e4

Nothing says "free press" like kicking press you don't like out of the country...

it wasn't a "free press" - it was "owned" by hamas and radical muslim groups. Talking out of your tail feathers is so much a birdbrain knee jerk reaction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Jazeera_controversies_and_criticism

"Egypt

Al Jazeera has faced considerable criticism and backlash in Egypt and other Arab countries; from ordinary people, media outlets, and governments who accuse it of supporting Qatari agenda and Islamists such as the Muslim Brotherhood^{[22][23][24][25]} Al Jazeera has been criticized by an Egyptian newspaper for its allegedly-biased coverage of news related to Egypt and its government. According to the Egypt Independent, many Egyptians believe Al Jazeera's attacks to be a concerted effort by the channel to destroy Egypt's image in the region."^[26]""

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Iraq

During the Iraq War, Al Jazeera and other news-gathering organizations experienced reporting and movement restrictions. Reporter Tayseer Allouni was expelled from the country and Diyar Al-Omari, another reporter, was stripped of his journalistic credentials by the US. On 2 April 2003, the organization announced that it would "temporarily freeze all coverage" of Iraq in protest of what Al Jazeera called unreasonable interference by Iraqi officials.^[44] Contrary to allegations, including those by Donald Rumsfeld on 4 June 2005, Al Jazeera has never shown beheadings; beheadings have appeared on a number of other websites, and have sometimes been misattributed to the organization.^[45] When the allegations were reported in other media, Al Jazeera pressed for retractions; The Guardian later corrected its report that the organization "had shown videos of masked terrorists beheading western hostages".^[46] The allegation was repeated on Fox News, however, when Al Jazeera's English service was launched on 15 November 2006.^[47]

The Iraqi Allawi government closed Al Jazeera's Iraq office on 7 August 2004, calling the network responsible for a negative image of Iraq and charging it with fueling anti-Coalition hostilities. Al Jazeera spokesman Jihad Ballout said, "It's regrettable and we believe it's not justifiable. This latest decision runs contrary to all the promises made by Iraqi authorities concerning freedom of expression and freedom of the press,"^[48] and Al Jazeera vowed to continue reporting from inside Iraq.^[49] Photographs showed United States and Iraqi military personnel closing the office. The initial one-month shutdown was extended indefinitely in September 2004 and the offices were sealed,^[50] drawing condemnation from international journalists.^[51]

In September 2008, Al Jazeera broadcast live the killing of a U.S. soldier by an Iraqi sniper in Baghdad.^[52]

In April 2013, Iraq banned Al Jazeera and nine other TV channels for "sectarian bias".^[53] In a statement, the Iraqi Communication and Media Commission said that the satellite channels had "exaggerated things, given misinformation and called for breaking the law and attacking Iraqi security forces". The commission noted a "sectarian tone" in the TV coverage and "undisciplined media messages exceeded all reasonable limits", threatening to "jeopardize the democratic process".^[54][55]

Israel

Al Jazeera TV covered welcome-home festivities for Samir Kuntar, a Lebanese terrorist imprisoned in Israel for killing several people in a Palestine Liberation Front raid from Lebanon into that country, when Kuntar was released from prison on 19 July 2008. On the program, Al Jazeera Beirut office head Ghassan bin Jiddo called Kuntar a "pan-Arab hero" and organized a birthday party for him.^[56][57][58] Israel's Government Press Office (GPO) announced a boycott of the channel, including a refusal by Israeli officials to be interviewed and a ban of its correspondents entering government offices in Jerusalem.^[59][60] Several days later, Al Jazeera director-general Wadah Khanfar issued a letter admitting that the program violated the channel's code of ethics and saying that he ordered its programming director to take steps to ensure that such an incident would not recur.^[61][62]

The channel was also criticized for allegedly-biased coverage of events in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, including the 2002 Bat Mitzvah massacre where the network omitted the facts that the victims were attending a bat mitzvah at a crowded banquet hall.^[63] When Palestinian militant Raed Karmi was killed by the Israeli Army, Al Jazeera was criticized for failing to provide sufficient context in its story.^[63]

Israel again accused Al Jazeera of bias in 2008. Deputy Foreign Minister Majalli Wahabi accused the organization of focusing on Palestinian suffering and downplaying that of Israel, referring to Israeli residents of the western Negev who had been the target of rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip.^[64] "We have seen that Al-Jazeera has become part of Hamas ... taking sides and cooperating with people who are enemies of the state of Israel," said Wahabi, a Druze. "The moment a station like Al-Jazeera gives unreliable reports, represents only one side, and doesn't present the positions of the other side, why should we cooperate?"^[65] According to Israeli officials, Al Jazeera covered the Gaza incursion but not Palestinian rocket attacks on the Israeli city of Ashkelon. Wahabi said that the Israeli Foreign Ministry would send letters of complaint to the government of Qatar and Al Jazeera.^[65]

In February 2015, Al Jazeera posted an article on its online edition alleging that the Israeli government had opened dams in its southern region to intentionally flood parts of the Gaza Strip. The article was replaced on 25 February with a statement that there were no dams in southern Israel and the original article was false.^[66] During the June 2017 Jerusalem attack, Israeli media accused Al-Jazeera of not identifying it as a terrorist attack and ignoring an attack by three Palestinians on the Temple Mount in Old Jerusalem (focusing instead on the killing of a Palestinian by Israeli forces during Friday prayers).^{[67][dubious – discuss][unreliable source?]}

During the 2023 Israel–Hamas war, Al Jazeera Arabic has used the Hamas codename, "Al-Aqsa Flood" in its articles to refer to the conflict.^[68] On 1 April, 2024, Israel's parliament approved a law that would allow Israel to shut down Al Jazeera broadcasts from inside the country. Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamim Netanyahu, accused Al-Jazeera of "actively participating in the October 7 massacre and inciting against IDF soldiers". Israeli authorities also cited Al Jazeera's alleged links to Hamas.^[69]

On 5 May 2024, the Israeli government shut down Al Jazeera in Israel and authorized the seizure of its equipment.^[70]"

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Saudi Arabia

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Saudi Arabia banned Al-Jazeera and another Qatari website in early 2017 after Qatari Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani said that he recognized Iran as an Islamic regional power and criticized Saudi Arabia and Donald Trump's policy toward Iran. He praised the Lebanese organization Hezbollah and the Palestinian group Hamas. Qatar denied the allegations, saying that its QNA website had been hacked and it was investigating the incident.^[84][85]"

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Allegations of antisemitism and anti-Israel sentiment

Antisemitism

An article by Sherry Ricchiardi in the American Journalism Review (AJR) noted that critics of Al Jazeera have "assailed what they see as anti-Semitic, anti-American bias in the channel's news content."^[144] Ricchiardi had earlier criticized an Al Jazeera report that Jewish employees of 9/11 targets were informed of the attacks beforehand, a report which was also criticized in an October 2001 New York Times editorial. She cited the former Al Jazeera weekly show Sharia and Life, hosted by Yusuf Qaradawi (an Egyptian cleric who "argues clearly and consistently that hatred of Israel and Jews is Islamically sanctioned").^[145] The organization held a 2008 on-air birthday party for Samir Kuntar, a Lebanese terrorist convicted of killing four Israelis who was released in July of that year, later admitting that its coverage of Kuntar's release violated its code of ethics.^[146] The organization's Beirut bureau chief said, "Brother Samir, we wish to celebrate your birthday with you" and called him a "pan-Arab hero."^[120][147]""

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On May 30, 2017, Al Jazeera's English-language account retweeted an Anti-Semitic meme.^{[152][153] [unreliable source?]} The network tweeted an apology after the incident, calling it a "mistake".^{[154][unreliable source?]}

In May 2019, AJ+ produced a video denying and minimizing the Holocaust. Al Jazeera said it had "swiftly deleted" the video, stating that it had "violated the editorial standards of the network". The video stated that "[the] number [of Jews murdered in the Holocaust] had been exaggerated and 'adopted by the Zionist movement', and that Israel is the 'biggest winner' from the genocide."^[155]"

Nothing says "free press" like kicking press you don't like out of the country...

and woodpecker never contributes legitmately, he just sits back, then pecks at others.

@fy56 said:

Well yeah, all he's doing is just throwing it back in your faces.

... No.... Objectively no

But it's cute you're attempting to defend him. 

@mld-woody said:

You do realize who calls the "other side" Nazis / Hitler the most, right? Hint: he's one of yours

Well yeah, all he's doing is just throwing it back in your faces.

https://redstate.com/jeffc/2024/05/04/crackdowns-on-pro-hamas-demonstrations-are-not-a-free-speech-issue-n2173765

Crackdowns on Pro-Hamas Demonstrations Are Not a Free Speech Issue

@fy56 said:

Going with that shit has always been a favorite of the left. You know "Trump is Hitler", Conservatives are "Nazi's".

I'd prefer Diehard call you guys Hamazi's

You do realize who calls the "other side" Nazis / Hitler the most, right? Hint: he's one of yours

@vaportrail said:

Imagine putting a foreign nation's flag on your avatar.

He's been fishing for responses on this for a week. Just his usual trolling 

@fy56 said:

 From what I can tell Israel is already great.

We're the ones with that need to be restored to normalcy, thanks to the left.

How about Make Israel Safe Again? 

No that won't work either. Israel has never been allowed to be at peace.

The "palestinians" could have had their own country when Israel was created.

but NOOOOOOOO, they punched themselves in the face and declined because they didn't want Jews to have a country, they hated them so much.

 etc. etc. etc.

Now they hate all Jews and Israel because they made their own misery and can't handle the truth - they blame Israel, so stupidly.

They STILL don't want Israel to be a country. They STILL HATE Jews for no good reason.

they support hamas and Oct. 7th - by a huge majority.

It's too bad they are self-destructive, but warring against the Jews, then whining that Israel fights back....

is culturally asinine as an identity.

Their hatred for ANY other religion goes back to Mohammed's days.

and blaming their hatred on Israel being forced to fight the '67 war, or blaming it on the Israelis going into Gaza after Oct. 7th...

is just cultural suicide, complete with suicide vests, and teaching young children to be terrorists as a game.

@cccjwh said:

I point it out every time your cultists try to take people rights away. Banning books, drag show, abortion, etc. It's what you fascists like to do after all.

Schools have a right to ban perverted books.

Drag shows are lewd, certain places also have the right to ban those.

The right to abortion doesn't exist.

But in all those cases(a whopping 3) you're talking about isolated instances. Abortion may or may not be banned in certain states.

@fy56 said:

True to both, but just don't dare say mean things about black people.

You are comfortable saying mean things about Jews.

It wouldn't even have to be mean things, but you would be very uncomfortable even criticizing black people.

Wrong, I'm not a neoliberal.

White flighted my ass out of Shaker because some black kid was going around holding people up at gunpoint outside my house. One of my neighbors had a bullet go into their house from a driveby, that I assume was some kind of gang initiation ritual - they had no reason to be targeted by a driveby. I will never subject myself to living in a majority black neighborhood ever again and I'm not the slightest bit sorry for it. 

@cccjwh said:

I point it out every time your cultists try to take people rights away. Banning books, drag show, abortion, etc. It's what you fascists like to do after all.

Good for you cccp! You get a star on your forehead. Now run along!

@vaportrail said:

So, what's the threshold to have our unquestioned support? Rwandans, East Timorese, Bosnians, Armenians, Serbs, Poles, Rohingyas, and American Indians have all been on the receiving end of a genocide. Why don't we support them no matter what?

You said "have all been".

Israel is an exception. Genocide of the Jews existed before the state of Israel was founded and it exists to this day. It's perpetual. I don't believe that can be said about another country.

That anti hate speech bill the Republicans put through I believe was nothing but a desperate attempt to "do something"."

@fy56 said:

No he means you only care about rights when they're your own dumbass.

I point it out every time your cultists try to take people rights away. Banning books, drag show, abortion, etc. It's what you fascists like to do after all.

@vaportrail said:

Israel owns our politicians. Your freedom of speech ends when you say mean things about Jews. 

True to both, but just don't dare say mean things about black people.

You are comfortable saying mean things about Jews.

It wouldn't even have to be mean things, but you would be very uncomfortable even criticizing black people.