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lees1975

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4. Where is the anti-Semitism, specifically?
Thu May 9, 2024, 12:04 PM
May 9

Just being critical of what Israel is doing, or even calling it genocide, is not anti-Semitic.

No doubt there are those among the protesters who are anti-Semitic. Anti-Semitism is, by definition, hostility toward and discrimination against persons of the Jewish race, though Arabs are also Semitic, by racial definition, and many of them are also descendants of Abraham. Some protests have individuals who do express anti-Semitism by definition, but the vast majority of them are protesting what they see as a military over-reaction, extending into vengeance, of the IDF at the orders of the Israeli prime minister and its far right wing Likud party's majority government. I do not see protesting a violent war that has an inordinate number of civilian casualties and this large of a field of destruction of civilian property being waged by Israel as anti-Semitic.


I think that's roughly the same point you're making.
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