The reason criticism of israel is so often characterized as anti-semitic is because it often is. If you reserve all your condemnation for israel and have none to offer for any of it's neighbor's, you might be anti-semitic. Israel is by far the most open and liberally minded society in the middle east.
I feel bad for the palestinians more because of their own government (hamas and the plo) than anything israel does, which is essentially always defensive in nature. Meanwhile if you're openly gay, good luck living anywhere in the middle east other than israel.
Once again libs get so rabidly confused on this issue because of their boneheaded marxist worldview where power differentials are the only thing that matters. Because israel is powerful, they're supposed to just accept rockets being fired at random into their civilian areas? It doesn't matter that all of their neighbors commit horrible human rights abuses against their *own people* routinely, because they're less powerful? It's morally incoherent like so many leftist ideas.
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07-08-2023, 11:34 AM
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