Can we compare right-wing reaction to the Black Lives Matter movement to left-wing reaction to the current Gaza War?
The Gaza War has simply added fuel to an existing fire of growing anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism was already on the rise for several years before the Gaza War. “When violent conflicts occur in the Middle East, there are those in the U.S. that exploit these horrifying events to inflame antisemitism." It's as if the reality of Israel's military assault on Gaza has only boosted the anti-Semites' fantasy of the evil Jew.
It's the way racists reacted to BLM in 2020. For right-wingers in the U.S. BLM only fueled the fire of pre-existing racism.
"[Statistical analysis of Twitter posts] reveals differences in how different political groups talk about BLM. Most notably, the murder of George Floyd appears to have solidified a right-wing counter-framing of protests as arising from dangerous 'terrorist' actors."
[i]Compare[/i]: Hamas' murder of 1400 Israelis on October 7 appears to have solidified a left-wing counter-framing of the subsequent Gaza War as arising from the "dangerous genocidal government" of Israel.
@MethDozer As I said, Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005. Your comment doesn't dispute that. The UN Partition Plan envisioned a Jewish state and an Arab state. The Arabs rejected that. The day after Israel declared independence in 1948, several Arab countries invaded Israel. Israel won the war and gobbled up even more land. Ever hear the expression, quit while you're ahead?
@MethDozer In 1917 the area is question is misleading because the land was at times referred to as “Palestine” as a geographic designation. Jews were even referred to as Palestinian Jews. World War 1 saw the transition of the area controlled by the Ottoman Empire to being administered by Britain.
Further, the 1948 map is misleading because the partition plan wasn’t accepted by the Arabs.
Prior to 1967 The West Bank was Jordanian and Gaza, Egyptian.
@MethDozer You lose a war that you start, you lose land. Again: the Arabs never heard the expression, quit while you're ahead.
The Palestinians had a good chance at having an independent state during the Clinton Administration. Yassir Arafat scuttled that. Again, quit while you're ahead.
@MethDozer I don’t consider facts irrelevant, especially when they are being used to prove a point. If you want to discuss the settlements, then I agree they should not have happened. The other items I discussed are important unless one simply prefers the propaganda value.
