Reply #21: pssst -- he's wrong about the anti-Semitism too [View All]

[Morgana LaFey]

Truth is I don't recognize myself and my views in the characterization he spouts off with. Oh well.

You know, I'm not an anti-Semite, but being branded such and in this vitriolic way by people who refuse to accept an oppositional viewpoint on Israel/Palestine could definitely push me in that direction. IOW: their efforts and overly hot rhetoric COULD become self-fulfilling prophecy.

I don't like being called anti-Semite just because I object to the way the current Israeli government does some things. But each time I encounter that argument, it seems to sting just a little less. Kinda like crying wolf for no reason at all debases one's credibility on the subject of wolf. I know this: those epithets will never make me abandon a position I feel is right.

So go ahead: call me anti-Semite.