baboon2004
Darned cockwombles.
But to actually get down into this point: an idea I've come across a number of times recently, and which I think makes a great deal of sense, is that many people - white and Muslim alike - are motivated far more strongly by a hatred of Israel than they are by any particular love of, or solidarity with, Palestinians. The disparate Palestinian death tolls in Syria and the occupied territories over the last seven years, and the relative amount of outrage over each in the Muslim world and among anti-imperialist circles in Western countries, is a case in point (as if there were anything special or particularly worthy about Palestinians compared to the countless other ethnic and cultural groups being brutalized by this state or that jihadi group throughout the MENA region, which there clearly isn't.)
Palestinians don't care about Palestinian death tolls? And they're not allowed to hate the Israeli government, because...? I suppose the people floating this 'idea' are totally in touch with their own motives?!
The thing that is special about Palestinians in the occupied territories is that they are being brutalised by a state that the West supports, endorses and arms, and makes only very weak criticisms of at best. As far as I'm aware, Britain is at war with Assad (although he is still killing people with weapons supplied by British firms, of course), and was at war with Islamic State, so the pressure that it can bring to bear in that case is somewhat different in nature.
It's not so much that they can't be 'trusted', it's more a case of 'why would you listen to a group who are so clearly for one side, and even more importantly against the other side, if you weren't already in full agreement with them?'.
So no-one who objects to the activities of the Israeli government can legitimately have any view on issues around anti-Semitism, in your opinion.
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