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Related: About this forumAn Open Letter to the Anti-Israel Left
You presume to define our Jewish identity to suit your own sensibilities and convenience. You assert that Zionism has nothing to do with Judaism. You say we are only a religious group and deny our 3,500 year old history as both a national and a faith community. In short, you presume to tell us who we are – a liberty you would not dare to take with any other group – and you are wrong.
You say you have nothing against Jews. You say you are only against Zionists. You categorise us into “good Jews” who oppose Israel and “bad Jews” who support Israel. This is your cynical, sinister way of offering acceptance only to those Jews who are so lacking in knowledge or moral fibre that they are willing to embrace your hollow caricature of what it means to be Jewish. You are against the millions of Jews, the overwhelming majority, who are proudly Jewish and support Israel’s right to exist as the State of the Jewish people.
You are guilty of ignoring, minimising and obfuscating the antisemitism within your ranks. You claim to be anti-racists but will not condemn the all too obvious anti-Jewish racism which is manifested every day by adherents of the anti-Israel movement – on websites, on social media, at demonstrations, in public lectures, talks and speeches. When this antisemitism is exposed, you go into hysterical denial, accusing those who expose the ugly anti-Jewish racism you have helped to spawn of trying to stifle public criticism of Israel. As if there is any shortage of public criticism of Israel.
When Jews are attacked or murdered in Istanbul, Mumbai, Toulouse, Paris, and elsewhere, you blame the victims – you say “Israel is the cause of antisemitism”. You say “If Israel behaved better, then Jews throughout the world would not be attacked.” Yet you would not dream of blaming the victim for any other form of racism or racially-motivated violence.
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Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)shira
(30,109 posts)Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)You need to work on your people skills.
shira
(30,109 posts)
yourpaljoey
(2,166 posts)shira
(30,109 posts)Chasstev365
(5,191 posts)who deserve basic human rights, YOU ARE NOT BEING ANTI-ISRAEL!
shira
(30,109 posts)Not one who gives a shit about the situation for gays, women, christians, and children in Gaza & the W.Bank.
6chars
(3,967 posts)Zionists do believe Palestinians are human beings. Hence repeated peace offers.
deathrind
(1,786 posts)...being critical of Netanyahu and the Likud party vis a vis the settlements automatically means that one is anti-semitic is getting old.
I was very critical of bush Jr. and his administrations actions with regards to Iraq, Katrina response, torture, wire tapping and a plethora of other dubious deeds but that did not mean I was anti-American. It is possible to be critical of certain aspect of an issue but not hate the entire issue.
shira
(30,109 posts)....from Ben Gurion to Yitzak Rabin whom they admire.
So just cut the shit that this is about Netanyahu.
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)to a standard never held for any Muslim country. Not even one. Where are the boycotts for Saudi Arabia for beheading poets, for Iran for putting bounty on an authors head and giving gays the death penalty, for PALESTINE for voting in terrorist hamas who steal aid money to build more tunnels to kill Israeli's. That's why the left has zero say on this matter, why not one elected official supports bds bullshit. They're hypocrites and everyone knows it.
shira
(30,109 posts)Their recent wars make Israel look angelic in comparison.
No boycotting them.