re: #109 windsagio

Seriously, this is silly.

The meme seems to be “I don’t agree with what they did, so they must be evil people.”

They could be foolish, mistaken, stupid, whatever. I’d put good money down that most of the European/American peace activists really don’t hate Jews.

I’ve stood opposite these people and their supporters at demonstrations, and they hate someone.

I’ve heard, as recently as last week, people on San Francisco City Hall’s back yard yell ‘itbach al Yahud’, to no disapproval from those around them.

They may not personally hate everyone who is a Jew, (especially if that person bolsters their arguments) but they’re deliberately putting themselves to considerable trouble at the service of people whose goal is to destroy Israel.

That’s close enough to hating Jews for me.

“I don’t hate black people. I resent all of their organizations. I assume that any black person in a position of power got there through affirmative action. I will argue that black culture is inherently inferior, and try to insist that innovations by black inventors were invented first by white people. I will quote endless statistics about black men in prison to justify my fear of black men on the street. But I’m not a racist. Black people who live just like me and agree with my political beliefs are OK.”

Doesn’t fly.