Zionism is not Judaism, and by conflating the two you are actively undermining the ability of any person who wishes to criticize the actions of the Israeli government.

FREE PALESTINE!

Casual reminder that you are still 100% allowed to say the R-slur on Twitch. Meanwhile, they want to appease people who use that word HEAVILY rather than respect the people who are affected by it.

Equating the term "Zionist" with "Jewish" is antisemitic, as this is essentially linking the violent actions of Israel with the faith of Judaism as a whole: Something that many Jewish people worldwide certainly do not appreciate being conflated with.

Which is why it's concerning that Twitch is now considering the term "Zionist" as a proxy term for "Jews". All this does is to try and enforce the antisemitic trope above, and actually does more to socially reinforce antisemitism through the platform.

While the ADL have seemingly granted themselves the authority over what antisemitism "means", they are backed by the Israeli state, and have spent considerable time, money and effort trying to use the label of antisemitism as a smear tactic against anybody who calls out the violent actions of Israel, including most recently, Twitch streamers covering recent events since the attack on October 7th.

It feels like a step backwards, conceding to the demands of an organisation that serves the interests of the state of Israel, as it only helps to reinforce their own new brand of antisemitism that includes criticism of their actions as a violent apartheid settler ethnostate. As such, I heavily urge Twitch to speak to anti-Zionist Jewish groups such as Jewish Voice for Peace (https://jewishvoiceforpeace.org/) - and get input from Jewish people who aren't sponsored by a country who are being investigated for actions of genocide in the international courts.

This is honestly essential SOP and that Twitch can end up seeing operational problems because of small community harassment is supremely concerning.

With the coming USAmerican presidential change -- platforms that allow this sort of disingenuous manipulation from bad actors is concerning for my and my community's safety.

The equivocation of Zionism to Jews, Judaism or any Semitic peoples is antisemitic. Ideology is not a protected class. This would be like saying NAZI is a slur to all Germans. This is irrational.

A Zionist is the same as a Nazi. They are an extremist group that supports murder, hate and Genocide

There's a stream that is live RIGHT NOW on Twitch that is against TOS, despite being reported directly to Twitch reps. It's the top guy from Destiny's community instructing people how to brigade and contact Twitch's advertisers and congresspeople. The site he's telling people to go to is also targeting Arab creators. https://streamable.com/panpdx

Being anti-apartheid is not being anti-semitic.
There's a tiny minority of people who are pushing this lie, and only a tiny minority of that minority are actually Jewish, and no one wants to be called a name, so they're just giving into to this utter lie, and millions of Anti-Zionist Jews will have to deal with the ramifications of this ignorant campaign. Sweep this silly policy into the dustbin of history along with Rhodesia, South Africa, and ******* Nazism; where it belongs.

I am semi-quoting and paraphrasing what alessonfire says below. This smear campaign is targeted at silencing pro-palestinian and anti-zionist views on the platform. It is unacceptable and is blatant islamophobia and anti-arab racism. You're caving to christo-fascism and white supremacy. Twitch should not be the voice of the rise of christian fundamentalism, nazism and pro-genocide bigots.

All recent changes are to align with self-preservation of Twitch's own corporate interests above all else. It is horrific that that as a bi-product of this, anti-Semitism, anti-Arab, and other hate speech is only going to get worse as a direct consequence of what Twitch has chosen to do.

Equating anti-zionism with anti-semitism is deeply harmful to Jews everywhere

This smear campaign that started with the brigading of the streamers banned after the TwitchCon event and is targeted at silencing pro-palestinian and anti-sionist views on the platform is unacceptable and is blatant islamophobia, you allow Asmongold to stream racist BS without even tagging his stream like you have done to Hasanabi and others. It's disgusting, racist and you're caving to the worst people, some of them haven even been permabanned from your site. Get your sh*t together.

How can the word zionist be a protected class? That is utterly ridiculous.

Is Twitch kidding? I’ve just about had it. I don’t care who streams on there, I refuse to support a company who values *actual* repression and covers for the agents of genocide. If there is any justice in this world, the people won’t continue as enablers. We are these companies. We enable this system. Have some dignity. Don’t bend over for this behavior.

Stop kowtowing to malicious bad faith actors. This new policy change literally promotes antisemitism instead of its stated propose/reasoning.

This is a ridiculous update to hear about. It would be like Republicans saying you can't say bad things about them. They're a political group and not a religious one. Twitch is siding with people on the wrong side of history right now. Whatever the outcome for this uservoice is, we will remember this.

FREE SPEECH & FREE PALESTINE!

Stop letting malicious actors influence your moderation guidelines

demonizing anti-zionism is the same as demonizing those who were actively using their voice and power against the nazis. we‘re in the middle of an ongoing livestreamed genocide
what twitch is doing here is absolutely despicable and infuriating. It is nothing other than running propaganda for and silencing criticism of a deplorable state built on the blood of palestinians that can be described as nothing less than enemies of humanity capable and willing to carry out atrocities never seen before every single day! you are watching those atrocities yet actively choose to stand on the wrong side of history. against nazis, not hand in hand with them!