Israel/Palestine
In reply to the discussion: Anti-Semitic violence surged 40% worldwide last year [View all]Little Tich
(6,171 posts)If you ever get the chance to talk to one, probe them about their attitudes towards Jews. IMHO, being supportive or critical of Israel isnt even remotely a defining factor, and shouldnt be in the definition of what anti-Semitism is. If it aint racism its not anti-Semitism.
You are trying to cherrypick stuff from the report thats anti-Semitic, and well, yeah those examples are anti-Semitic. Equating a star of David with a swastika, is in general anti-Semitic. My problem with the report is that it includes stuff thats not anti-Semitic, and calls it anti-Semitic. One funny example of this is the cartoon of the mouse and the scorpion.
The way I interpret the report, is that there are serious people who compile chapters about different regions, and that these chapters are factually correct and also use a reality based definition of what anti-Semitism is. Later when the report was compiled, the trolls at the Kantor Center appended some Hasbara BS to it.
The notion that anti-Israel rhetoric is possibly anti-Semitic, is a slippery slope argument that automatically leads to false positives when looking for anti-Semitism.