Pointing out the obvious isn't "playing the race card", but I'll tell you what, if the Left agrees to put it away and not use it again, we'll stop pointing those things out. Agreed?
No, it's the anti-semite card in general. It's interesting to me how conservatives who so constantly complain about the race card being played are so excited to... play the race card.
Read the work of the Israeli historian, Ilan Pappe, "The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine" (2006).
Pointing out the obvious isn't "playing the race card", but I'll tell you what, if the Left agrees to put it away and not use it again, we'll stop pointing those things out. Agreed?
No, people should always be free to point out when people involved are being racists. I mean think of all the racist things conservatives have done since 2008, why would you not want to call that out when it has happened? That being said, of course simply criticizing Obama doesn't make you a racist.
There are also lots of legitimately anti-semitic people out there, but simply disagreeing on Hamas doesn't make you one either. It's funny that by simply criticizing Israel while simultaneously saying that I find Hamas to be a horrible organization I have been repeatedly called an anti-semite. It's disgusting.
No, people should always be free to point out when people involved are being racists. I mean think of all the racist things conservatives have done since 2008, why would you not want to call that out when it has happened? That being said, of course simply criticizing Obama doesn't make you a racist.
There are also lots of legitimately anti-semitic people out there, but simply disagreeing on Hamas doesn't make you one either. It's funny that by simply criticizing Israel while simultaneously saying that I find Hamas to be a horrible organization I have been repeatedly called an anti-semite. It's disgusting.
Hating Zionism != racism
Preaching that Israel should be destroyed = racism
Hamas does both, the Right ignores the former while the Left ignores the latter.
Those two are basically the same thing.
While I'm willing to bet the vast majority of people who think Israel shouldn't exist are anti-semites, not all of them are. In fact, there's a large segment of the ultra-orthodox in NYC that is fervently anti-Israel's existence. Presumably they aren't all self-hating.
Nope, but you are a fascist redneck, so it makes sense you'd think that.
No, they aren't. The first is at least a place to start a discussion, the second is going to be ignored or heavily criticized.
"Large"? A dozen ex-pat rabbis with ~100 followers is a "large segment"? Do you have any idea how many Hasidic Jews are in NYC?
I do! I used to live in Williamsburg, which is bordering one of the largest Hasidic communities in the city and now I live next to another large Hasidic community. There are a lot, lot more than 100 of them that are anti-zionist in this way.
Either way, they serve as a clear example of how one can be anti-zionist and believe Israel should not exist and not be an anti-semite. For the record, I am a strong supporter of Israel as a state, just not what Israel is doing in this case.
boo hoo war is hell.....you keep posting this picture in every thread. the IDF is not a humanitarian army. they proved it over and over.
here is a recent one of them shooting a kid and mocking his injuries. classy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xmvh0LXlhY
did you not see the first 10 seconds of the clip where the 2 boys are throwing stones at whoever is down there? (probably some soldiers)you keep posting this picture in every thread. the IDF is not a humanitarian army. they proved it over and over.
here is a recent one of them shooting a kid and mocking his injuries. classy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xmvh0LXlhY
That's consistent with most of this thread though. The big mean jews should just let the kids throw rocks at their heads and in no way try to defend themselves.did you not see the first 10 seconds of the clip where the 2 boys are throwing stones at whoever is down there? (probably some soldiers)
that was not live ammunition, but rubber bullets. standard procedure for dealing with stone throwers in the west bank.
otherwise they were just cracking jokes. the only thing you can blame them them for is having a bad sense of humor.