Israel/Palestine
In reply to the discussion: Accusing Israel of ‘genocide’: Major fail [View all]DanTex
(20,709 posts)I'll let you count them. There's even a reference to stormfront in there. What is the purpose of that?
As an interesting aside, in another thread shira is insisting that anyone who believes "Israel should end the blockade immediately" is "pro-terror". So there's that.
Yes, of course anti-semitism could be involved with respect to Israel. But the transition from "could" to "is" is made very loosely here. Witness shira's accusation that bringing up "genocide" is "Jew-baiting".
Do you think it's possible for a person to think that Israel's actions over many decades amount to "genocide" without being anti-semitic? Do you think that when they say "genocide" they necessarily have Nazi Germany in mind, as opposed to, say the treatment of Native Americans by Europeans, or just an abstract definition of "genocide"?
I don't think that even over-the-top criticism of Israel is necessarily anti-semitic. Especially not on DU. DU is pretty far left when it comes to foreign policy in general -- if you go into GD you will find pages and pages of over-the-top criticism of American foreign policy. And remember, after 9-11 a lot of far-left commentators quickly chimed in to say that the US was actually the world's largest terrorist actor and so on. That wasn't motivated by anti-semitism.
To me, excessive criticism of Israel (i.e. Israel=Nazis and the like) stems mostly from leftist anti-imperialism and anti-colonialism gone too far, along with the tendency to root for the underdog. You'd see the same thing if Israel had nothing to do with Judaism.