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1. Anti-Semitism, and especially American anti-Semitism, is not a discussion about Israeli social and political policy. Saying Israeli issues and American Jewish issues are one in the same is inherently anti-Semitic...
1. Anti-Semitism, and especially American anti-Semitism, is not a discussion about Israeli social and political policy. Saying Israeli issues and American Jewish issues are one in the same is inherently anti-Semitic...
2. Many American Jews, who as a demographic group are far more left-leaning than other Americans who identify with a religious affiliation, share in the belief that this far right-wing Israeli gov’t is wrongfully oppressing the Palestinian people. By conflating issues of...
anti-Semitism with the Israeli gov’t actions, you are excluding American Jews from joining your ranks.
3. The Israeli gov’t doing bad things does not invalidate Israel’s right to exist. There’s a big leap between saying Palestinians should be freed from their current...
3. The Israeli gov’t doing bad things does not invalidate Israel’s right to exist. There’s a big leap between saying Palestinians should be freed from their current...
...oppression, and saying Israel should not exist as a whole. The modern state of Israel is the only place in the last two thousand years where Jews have not been a targeted minority. In any conversation that takes place about the future of Israel and Palestine...
...that notion must not be lost. But this is not a conversation about Israel or Palestine. It’s about anti-Semitism, which is again, a completely and totally separate thing!
4. Anti-Semitism in today’s society often holds the Holocaust as the beginning and end of Anti-Semitism in the modern world. In reality, pogroms and other targeted attacks have been exacted on Jews going back hundreds and even thousands of years. Many of them are motivated by...
emphasizing the “otherness” of Jews, and perpetuating stereotypes that Jews run the banks/media, etc. Comments like those made by DeSean Jackson and Stephen Jackson in recent days are not new — they can be found circulating in European texts during the pogroms in...
...Eastern Europe, and culminating in the pre-Holocaust propaganda of Nazi Germany. By not standing up to these comments today and allowing them to perpetuate, we as a society are making the same mistakes of the past which led to these horrific crimes in the first place. /thread
