re: #173 Paco from Sefarad

I haven’t made any straw man of you, you are instead a slippery fish of your own making.

Just an attempt to respond to some of your points:

Jews are currently persecuted in Europe. Whether more so or less than Muslims or Roma is of no interest to me.

It is no longer the Fascists who hate us but the Liberal Left. Get with the program.

How very noble of you. However, I feel the first responsibility of a Jew is to speak up for Jews and Israel.

I still don’t understand why you dragged the red herring of Roma persecution into this thread, and I still disagree with you that the persecution suffered by them is in any way comparable with that suffered by Jews.

If you, as a Jew, don’t find the rise of the Fascists in Europe to be chilling, I don’t know what to say. They haven’t changed. Just because they say they hate Muslims now doesn’t mean they like Jews. They still hate us. The UK is hypocritical and asinine about Israel, quite often. But the Fascists would love to see Jews and Muslims war with each other; they’d be happy to have us kill each other off.

If you’re not interested in the persecution of the Roma, why should anyone who isn’t a Jew be interested in the persecution of the Jews?