re: #7 wrenchwench

I’m not looking for purity. I don’t even agree with some of the opinions I myself held in the past. But I believe racism requires flawed thinking, and I won’t trust a racist’s thinking on any subject. In this case, I wouldn’t trust VDH to continue his support for Israel if liberals came to power there and were able to make peace with the Palestinians.

I actually haven’t a clue how he would react in such a case. (Nor do I much care. It’s Hanson.) I am fairly sure, however, that the anti-Israel activist community would not come to tolerate the existence of the state of Israel under a more liberal government than the current one, and they would protest any peace that did not include the dismantling of Israel. The anti-Israel crowd turns out to protest Tzipi Livni and Shimon Peres when they appear abroad, same as Netanyahu. They are described as ‘war criminals’.

This doesn’t have a lot to do with Hanson, but I mention it because it’s really, really important to me that people understand that the kind of anti-Israel voices I, and many other people who aren’t VDH call anti-Semites are not just opposed to Binyamin Netanyahu, or Israel’s ‘policies’. They’re opposed to Israel, period.