jlaw172364 wrote:Israel's government gets so much bad press, as a card-carrying Jew I can understand how people slip into the habit of being antisemitic.
With regard to Israel, the myth of it being exceptionally evil is easily debunked by the fact that, from a historical standpoint, it does exactly what every other nation state did and continues to do. There no nation states that can claim moral superiority to Israel, as it is axiomatic that nation states can only exist through legalized theft and murder. This does not excuse what Israel does, but it does put it in context with the crimes of other states. Someone recently posted something on Reddit that stated:
"Sri Lanka Kills Hundreds of Civilians; nobody cares because they're not Palestinian,"
which shows that people are aware of this issue.
So, as a "card-carrying Jew" (whatever that means), you imply that although 'antisemitism' is a bad thing, Israel's inhumane treatment of the Palestinians, i.e. 'legalized" "theft and murder' is no biggie, since, in your psycho headset, 'everyone does it'. Spoken like a true Nazi.
Incidentally, it is not "legalized"; though you zionists exist in a medieval bubble, humanity, in fact, has managed to establish a system of international law by the standards of which Israel is a criminal, terrorist, rogue state.
...it is axiomatic that nation states can only exist through legalized theft and murder
No, it is axiomatic that humanity is duty-bound under the principles of international law and for the sake of its own survival, to abolish and eliminate any and all nation states whose continued existence depends on theft and murder. Just like the Nazi regime in Germany, the White-supremacist Apartheid regime in South Africa, one day soon the Judeo-supremacist zionist regime in Palestine will be tossed into the dustbin of history, where it belongs.
"Sri Lanka Kills Hundreds of Civilians; nobody cares because they're not Palestinian."
Sane people would argue, as Martin Luther King did, that injustice against some is an injustice against all.
But according to you, since, as you claim 'nobody cares' about the killing of civilians by Sri Lanka, nobody
should care about the killing of Palestinians.
Sorry, bub. Hate to disappoint you and all that, but people do care about a starving, besieged people who are being brutally killed and stripped of all their rights and possessions by a racist, genocidal state.
As a "card-carrying Jew", that should comfort you, assuming that you consider "Jewishness" compatible with justice and basic human decency. That you perceive the struggle to save the Palestinian people from extermination as 'antisemitism' indicates that you do not.
In other words, people like you, IOW zionists, and racist 'antisemites' share a strikingly similar perception of what it means to be a Jew. In your shared paradigm, you both perceive Jewishness to be inconsistent with impartiality and justice for non-Jews. The only difference is that, in this zero-sum game, you are rooting for 'the Jews' to triumph over the 'others', while your mirror-image, the racist antisemite, is rooting for 'the others' to triumph over 'the Jews'.
From a moral point of view, there is little to choose between you, and your assumption that
your form of racial supremacy is superior to
theirs, simply reeks of hypocrisy.
"If you're not careful the newspapers will have you hating the oppressed and loving the people doing the oppressing." - Malcolm X
