Anti-Semitism's increasingly thin and hard-to-see line

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32. I agree with 3, 4 and 5...

1. I suspect there's a lot of people who use the Nazi comparison because it's the default setting for 'Something that's the worst thing I can think of!'. Some people tend to compare anything they don't like to Nazis, and it's just clumsiness. If it keeps on happening after it gets explained to them why it's insensitive, then that's when I'd be putting my money on it being anti-Semitism.

2. Not all Zionists are Jewish, and not all Jews are Zionists. Plus the original idea of Zionism was a sound one, but what sounds great in theory doesn't always end up so fantastic in practice (think communism). Zionism's morphed into various forms with one of the worst ones being some sort of rocket fuelled mixture of ultranationalism and religion, as displayed by the extremist settlers in the West Bank.

Just a correction, there's no more than a small handful of Muslim states. They're the ones that identify themselves as being a Muslim state and use religion as the basis of their criminal codes. The rest would be countries where the majority of people living there are Muslim (think Indonesia as an example).




I've got another one to add that like some of the others can be seen clearly in recent bigotry aimed at other minority groups. That's where someone says something like 'No-one supports anti-Semitism!' or 'There's no such thing as anti-Semitism!'.