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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Elroy who wrote (221965)3/2/2007 4:17:57 AM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (4) of 281500
 
Perhaps you can summarize it in a nutshell - why does objection to Israel (implied in my Pasreal "Plan for Peace in the Middle East") necessarily equate to anti-Jewish sentiment? Can his point be summarized in a few quick sentences?


Because the Jewish people are a people, have been one for thousands of years, have spent much of that time being driven out of one place after another. When somebody who all for national self-determination in every other case suddenly starts decrying and/or demonizing Jewish particularism and nationalism (which is what Zionism is), it is part and parcel of holding the Jews to a standard that never applied to anyone else. The Israelis are constantly being judged for not living up to a standard of behavior which in their circumstances would be suicidal.

That is one of the oldest tropes of anti-Semitism. Pretend fairness, then judge the Jews 10 times as harshly as anyone else. There is usually no risk involved.
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