The Next Hate Fest: CUNY Mockery on Gay Rights
In other words, she accuses Israel of feigning concern over the rights of gay people in order to whitewash — “pinkwash” — its lack of concern for Palestinian people.......
The anti-Semite just knows that there’s something sinister at work if Jews do anything positive. The core characteristic of anti-Semitism is the certainty that everything the Jews do is wrong, and everything that’s wrong is done by the Jews. To the anti-Semite, every depression, war, social problem, plague must have been the fault of the Jews. Whenever the Jews seem to be doing good — giving to charity, helping the less fortunate, curing the sick — there must be a malevolent motive, a hidden agenda, a conspiratorial explanation beneath the surface. Today, the twisted illogic that has characterized classic anti-Semitism is directed at the Jewish state, which for the anti-Semite has become “the Jew” among nations.
So when Israel sends help to tsunami and hurricane victims, the ideological soulmates of the pinkwash brigade accuse the Jewish state of merely trying to garner positive publicity calculated to offset its mistreatment of Palestinians. When Israeli medical teams save the lives of Palestinian children, they must be up to no good.
And when news surfaced that the Israeli Army has the lowest rate of rape against enemy civilians, radical anti-Zionists argued that this was because Israeli soldiers were so racist that they didn’t find Palestinian women attractive enough to rape! Nothing the Jew or the Jew among nations does can be praised, because its purpose is always to “manipulate,” to “conceal,” to “divert attention away from” or to “distort” the evil that inheres in all Jewish actions and inactions. That is the bigoted thesis of the “pinkwashing” campaign, and it is little different from similar campaigns organized by classic brown-shirted anti-Semites....
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there was an epic thread on this topic on DU2 it's a looooonnnnnggg read but you'll get the idea 
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=124x366616
And insightful and intellectual post your laughing at and giving the thumbs up to.
Bill-O is an independent after years of being an (R) doosh, but he still attacks Dems and progressives, but it is alright that he does it since he isn't a Republican.
Dershowitz and Obama disagree on Iran. They disagree on Obamacare. They disagree on Hagel. And I can't imagine Obama advocating torture of terrorist suspects, or advocating wholesale destruction of towns in response to terrorist acts as Dershowitz has. Nor can I see Obama rushing to George Zimmerman's defense. Nor can I imagine Obama grabbing his junk and screaming to the heavens about what a nazi fuck Jimmy Carter is. Obama supported the building of that Muslim community center in New York, Dershowitz opposed it.
They don't actually agree on much aside from "
arab) terrorists can be killed by assassination without judicial review." And just ask some actual liberals - you know, Du'ers who post outside this fucking Superfund site of a group - what the "liberal opinion" of assassinations is. Go on.
What Dershowitz does is jump aboard the Democrat ship just as it leaves the dock, so he can be photographed among the "liberals" then he goes overboard (literally and figuratively) right back to his usual Ann Coulter-y diatribes, hate speech, and right-wing dipshittery.
It's as Daneel points out above, with Billo or Hannity; "I'm a registered X who voted for Y!" does not in any way change that a person is a right-wing fascist fuckface.
If that's what you want to rally behind, sure go ahead; it basically just reinforces my opinion of you, so no harm done. But i think it'd be better if you Zionists developed something approaching "basic standards."
I'd also like a pony, while I'm at it.
Her closest friends assure her it's okay to march in solidarity with Hamas.
She says she doesn't care to know what Hamas is all about (their entire agenda is genocide) and she avoids even getting into it.
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Not very different from useful idiots working side-by-side with the worst militant KKK freakshows. Not caring what they stand for, being assured it's okay to work with them in order to correct some perceived "injustice".
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To the intended targets of Hamas or the KKK, there's really no difference b/w the killing machines targeting them or their useful idiots helping them to carry out their agenda.
David, this tactic of yours, "run and hide behind the Democratic party" when you lose an argument is silly. The Democratic party is wrong about stuff. In fact it's wrong about quite a bit of stuff. For instance, they didn't endorse same-sex marriage until 9/3/12. I'd like to think that you were out of synch with the party's previous opposition to / silence about the subject, but hey, you're here endorsing Dershowitz, so I guess I could be wrong ("abolish state marriage" isn't an answer to the question, Alan!)
It's not a very good tactic Dave. In fact it seems to imply you think all liberals march in absolute lockstep with the democratic party, which would seem to imply a startlingly deep ignorance of anything related to liberals or the democrats... but it does mirror the opinions I regularly see from right-wing dumbfucks (We're all "Obama's stormtroopers" don'cha know, a hive-minded red tidal wave of leftist oppression!)
I'm going to tell you something about "supporting the Jewish state." Several somethings, in fact.
One, calling Israel "The Jewish state" ignores the existence of about a third of Israel's population. I suppose they just don't count? i guess I know the answer to that question, given who I'm talking to.
Two, "support" is a pretty vague term. I'm sure you've seen these "I support the troops!" bumper stickers, yeah? Ever felt tempted to knock on that SUV's window and ask the person inside, "okay, how?" They don't know. They probably figure five bucks for a bumper sticker somehow goes into a "support the troops fund" or lifts someone's spirits or god only knows what. Generally their support is intangible and meaningless.
So too with the "support" most politicians give Israel. Generally it means "I support Israel's existence." Okay... and? Some ambivalence about Taiwan and Palestine aside, is the existence of any nation actually opposed by these politicians? Of course not, you can't be all like "Hey, Moldavia, FUCK YOU, you shouldn't exist!" 'cause then you tick off Moldavia, and Moldavia's buddies, and you have a diplomatic incident on your hands, right? So supporting the existence of any nation (even if done under-the-table, as with Taiwan) is pretty much the default position.
Now the question becomes, what of Israel's actual policies garners this support? Much as with the Democratic party, one can support one thing the organization (in this case, a nation-state) does, while totally opposing something else that the organization does. Walking, chewing gum, that sort of thing.
I think you'll find a lot more ambivalence, hemming, and hawing on the Hill when you ask about specific policies
...rather than working with Hamas, like this:
"Terrorism Causes Occupation, Not Vice Versa" (eta he's speaking about Iraq)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2773921
seems he's a man after the heart's of some here, but not many as a search of his name on DU will quickly show
