Replace the current israel-cool with this image.

This concept image could also be refined and doesn’t have to be submitted as is, if it really is needed, I can also erase the remnant of the blue star of david and just have the red triangle with the fire with the (also religiously significant blue bars so we are going to be called antisemites anyway no matter what).

note: If someone has a better, higher quality rendition of this image (and it’s done in a libre image manipulation tool catgirl-hiss) then feel free to post it in the comments including if it’s without the red downwards triangle since that should also be considered.

Also the padding on this image is wild (sorry GNU wilbur), it should most likely be resized to the proper dimensions when it goes through.

EDIT:

zionist-despair hamas-base free-palestine and others are all great emojis, but this one of indigenous Hawaiian Israel “IZ” Kamakawiwoʻole is deeply offensive to his legacy and is a mistake to even be included.

If this isn’t accepted, IZ should still be removed from :israel:cool: (maybe even just renamed to something better like :stay-mad-iz:)

IZ should no longer be tied to the genocidal entity.

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    9 months ago

    I suspect this is going to still cause problems (the fact that we can’t just have… a regular “Israeli” flag burning, instead of some euphemism or imitation) and this thread will either be locked or devolve into another struggle session.

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      9 months ago

      It’s like it’ll always be a tacit admission that burning the Zionist flag is wrong, even if there’s a valid(ish) reason for it.

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      9 months ago

      I would have preferred personally to have the regular flag reproduced, but I think covering it partially with a downwards red triangle still keeps the edge somewhat (I also elected not to cover/erase the entire star so it feels more like graffiti rather than a more derivative creation/imitation).

      I’d also prefer to have a thread where the site admins give either explicit approval or explicit denial so we can stop having struggle threads over it every so often.