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Thread #150703   Message #3637458
Posted By: Steve Shaw
28-Jun-14 - 07:32 PM
Thread Name: BS: Small hope for Israel/Palestine
Subject: RE: BS: Small hope for Israel/Palestine
Singling out Israel for opprobrium. Just consider the thousands upon thousands of posts about Israel at Mudcat vs. the meager no. of posts concerning the human rights abuses, genocides, occupations etc. going on all over the world. These scarcely merit a few posts until the topic once again returns to Israel. Why is that Greg? I'll tell you why in one word Greg - that word is antisemitism whether you like it or not.

Let me try to explain the thing you don't understand. First, antisemitism is an attack on Jews because they are Jews. You OK with that? Second, one hundred thousand posts that attack the Israeli regime for their policies or aggressions beyond their own legal borders does not amount in the slightest to antisemitism. But one single post attacking those Israeli actions because they are carried out by Jews is antisemitic. Thousands of posts criticising Israel for its actions do not in any way amount to antisemitism. I criticise the Israeli regime's actions all the time, but always because I vehemently disagree with them, not because they are carried out by Jews. I haven't a clue as to whether the people carrying out those actions are practising Jews,lapsed Jews or whether they're even all ethnic Jews. I don't give a toss. What I do give a toss about is what is right and what is wrong. I really hope this helps. Of course, it won't if you Bibi's uncle. I absolutely hate your country's serial foreign policy outrages and I hate your gun laws and I hate your corporate anti-democracy and I hate the fact that your mass media is so good at lying to you that almost all your population is hoodwinked almost all the time. But I don't hate it because you're yanks. I hate it all for what it is. Spot the subtle difference. Oops, sorry, forgot. You don't do subtle, do you?