Israel Hatred

In one of Volleyboy's recent diaries on Daily Kos there was some discussion of the concept of Israel Hatred, which some people over there reject. We are told time and again that criticism of Israel is not anti-Semitism; that criticism of Israel does not represent hatred either toward the Jewish state, nor toward Jews.

The problem, of course, is that no one is claiming otherwise. Of course, criticism of Israel is not anti-Semitism, nor does it represent hatred toward Israel. What we are talking about, however, is not criticism.

Borat Sagdiyev put it nicely:

Of course no one is going to come out and declare that [s]he hates Israel. The proof is therefore by preponderance of evidence.

People who bash, demonize and vilify Israel only, people who never have a good word to say about Israel and who never have a bad word to say about Israel's many enemies, people who nitpick on Israel's every minor fault or violation while ignoring/justifying/excusing every atrocious and reprehensible action committed by Israel's enemies, people who blame every problem in the middle east (if not the world) on Israel, people who write diaries about "Israeli atrocities" but are completely silent about real genocides elsewhere in the world, people who write diaries about the suffering of the Palestinian people in the west bank and are completely silent on suffering of the palestinian people in Lebanon or Kuwait....Well you got the idea.

There is a very significant number of posters who truly passionately hate Israel, I know who they are and you know who they are. Your defense that we can't read their minds and therefore they are innocent is simply too childish to be taken seriously.

Precisely.

Posted by Karmafish