Here is something that always goes on at Daily Kos.
Post something bad about Israel and you are not anti-semitic because opposing Israel is not the same as opposing Jews. A concept I agree with, although it is trumped out even when the comment is, in fact, anti-Semitic.
Post something bad about Palestine and you are an anti-Arab bigot.
I can sum up the rules of bigotry at Daily Kos quickly and simply.
1) Those who oppose Israel get to define anti-Semitism, and virtually nothing is anti-Semitism.
2) Those who oppose Israel get to define anti-Arab bigotry and just about anyone who supports Israel does so because of anti-Arab bigotry.
Regards,
DKW
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Here's the problem concerning the language around "Israel" and "Palestinians."
ReplyDeleteBecause the Jews have a state, you can condemn them in the most amazing terms possible, because there's a single government to blame.... not necessarily the people... and not necessarily the Jews, despite the fact that about 40% of world Jewry resides in Israel.
With the Palestinians, because they do not have a state, you can't do that. You can talk about Hamas or Fatah, but you can't talk about the Palestinians, because that unjustly implicates all.
Therefore if you say the Palestinians did this or that, or sometimes even Palestinians did this or that, you open yourself up to charges of racism.