Pro-Palestine protesters being their antisemitic selves ✨

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Because attacking American Jewish business owners is so great for the Palestinian cause, just like Hamas!

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Abstraction · 61-69, M

Yes, they are making a basic human error: to lump everyone together.
So...
* [i]Some[/i] pro-Palestinian protestors confuse actions of the Israeli government with Jewish people. Most pro-Palestinian protestors are simply decrying the current war crimes of the Israeli government and constant inhuman treatment of the Palestinian people. These are not the actions of 'the Jewish people'. It's by the Israeli government.
* Many, but not all, Jewish people confuse the words and actions of Hamas with all Palestinians (eg, the mistaken idea that all Palestinians want to see Israel destroyed).
I speak as someone who has been in Israel, spent time in the West Bank and listened to people there also and have colleagues from both these places.

Most of the arguments on SW are from this same error. Statements about all Republicans, all 'leftists', all atheists, all feminists, all christians, all 'woke' people, all... anything where we look at extreme words and actions of a few and assign them to the entire group. It's just completely unintelligent, stupid, dumb, damaging.

hippyjoe1955 · 61-69, M

@Abstraction So a young Jewish man put on a Catholic clerical cossack and hung a cross around his neck before he walked down the street in Jerusalem. Within minutes he was spat on 5 times and told to take off his offensive cross. Not all Jews in Israel are saints.

Abstraction · 61-69, M

@hippyjoe1955 Agree 100%. I visited a Palestinian village where the local Jewish settlers stole their well and fenced it off. The well had belonged to the Palestinian village for centuries. The Jewish kids from the settlement come down and throw rocks at the Palestinian villagers' cars. The morning I arrived the Israeli army were doing exercises nearby and fired tear gas into a girls' kindergarten we had built there. It was Ramadan so there was no-one there. No provocation. I searched the grounds and found multiple used tear gas canisters in the grounds.
But the actions of the Jewish settlers don't represent all the Jewish people. Most people I've met on both sides just want peaceful co-existence.

Zeuro · 26-30, F

@hippyjoe1955 link? What’s so offensive about a cross? Christians wear them all the time

Zeuro · 26-30, F

@Abstraction honestly the people that agree to move into the settlements are mostly extreme right-wingers. Most Israelis have no desire to expand into the West Bank.

I can’t wait for the day that Israeli liberals have enough government control that they give Palestine an inch, like ending the expansion of the settlements, sending more aid to Palestinian civilians, etc. of course even giving them back every single acre of Palestinian land that currently has settlements, that just won’t be enough to satisfy the extremists, but at least the international criticism of Israel that would remain would be more easily separated out from the healthy, productive criticisms that aren’t oozing with anti-Zionist contempt.

hippyjoe1955 · 61-69, M

@Zeuro Go do some investigation. You think you need to discredit my sources not counter them with real information.