re: #455 Obdicut

I know plenty of people who protest against Israel and want Israel to make concessions who do not in the least bit hate Jews, including many Jews.

It is facile to say that everyone who makes unreasonable demands of Israel hates Jews. Many are simply utterly naive. Lots of Berkeley students fit this mold, for example, as do many general ‘anti-war’ protester types who see Israel was waging war, rather than involved in a struggle that literally cannot be ended unilaterally.

There are plenty of Jew-haters, Jew-fearers, etc. etc. who attack Israel, I’m not in the least bit denying that. But there are also plenty of people who’s feelings on the subject are constrained to Israel, and not to Jews in general. They’re no less wrong, and no less misguided, but it’s certainly an error that’s easier to correct.

How would you classify Medea Benjamin and her compadres? Utterly clueless, naive, stupid, a Jew hater, or all of these?

As for the stupid claim that some people make, “I can’t be an anti-Semite because I’m Jewish myself” I say utter bullshit. These people hate all other Jews except for themselves. This especially applies to the goons of Neturei Karta.