Hi Colin, Palestinian Arabs have been murdering Jews long before the 1967 Six Day War—indeed before Israel was recreated in 1948. Also: Jews are indigenous to the land & Israeli Arabs have greater political rights than the Palestinians ruled by the Palestinian Authority & Hamas
A genocidal US-designated terrorist group is raining rockets down on the world’s sole Jewish state but ppl like Colin know whose to blame: the Jews (of course). Bravo, Colin! Well done! You tell those Jews that they deserve those rockets
It is a long standing staple of antisemitism that Jews are blamed for the violence perpetrated against them. This is why the Nazis charged Jewish shopkeepers etc for Kristallnacht; they “provoked” the violence perpetrated against them.
As i recently noted in @TheNatlInterest, the Palestinian Authority—long one of the most repressive entities in the Middle East—has been ramping up repression against dissidents&critics &political rivals to PA President Abbas, who hasn’t held elections in nearly 16 years.
The Colins of the world, of course, haven’t had anything to say about that long history of repression. Because they don’t really care about Palestinians. That’s just a pretense. They just hate Jews. But it’s no longer acceptable to state as much in a forthright fashion.
So instead they just hate the Jewish state. That is acceptable—indeed it is encouraged by many press and politicos.
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More than 600 rockets fired into Israel last night alone. All fired from a genocidal terrorist group. No other nation would tolerate that. Israel could flatten Gaza in an afternoon if it so chose. So spare me the false claims of "disproportionate use of force"
Palestinians have been offered a state on at least six occasions. They've declined every single one. Israel even withdrew unilaterally from Gaza. The response? The election of a terror group that calls for Israel's destruction and which *immediately* began launching rockets
Each of which is fired at civilians while using human shields--a double war crime. The problem--crystal clear and undeniable when one looks at history and the statement of Palestinian leaders themselves--is simple: Hamas--& Fatah--consider all of Israel to be an "occupation."
Interesting to note, yet again, that so many of the I/P analysts who have spent decades pushing for failed policies—policies which, in many respects, brought us to where we are today—are incapable of learning from their failures.
*analysts and organizations
At some point someone needs to step in and say “Look, we’ve done things your way for decades. The results have long been in: They failed. Indeed they’ve made things worse. Further they were a regurgitation of sorts of British policy decades before you came on board.”
It turns out that what Hamas shows and allows naive Western journalists to see is, um, not the whole truth and maybe,just maybe, part of their propaganda/disinformation ops
But Hamas knows that they can count on Western journalists to amplify their propaganda. Take for example this claim about “protesters” here
Jews 1. Aren’t “white” 2. Are disproportionately victims of hate crimes. While Jews account for less than 2% of the American population, the new FBI Hate Crimes Statistics report found that more than 60% of religious-based hate crimes in 2019 targeted Jews, an increase of 14%
This tendency to minimize rising antisemitism is nothing new for journalists who, raised on critical race theory and a pathetic understanding of Jewish history, can’t see the truth of the matter. I documented the phenomenon here: camera.org/article/camera…
Question: Why is it only antisemites that the media writ large feels the need to coddle and empathize with?
Should the individual profiled in this piece have directed her hatred at another minority, I very much doubt that it would've been similarly explained away
The gist of this piece: 'Oh it's just Bonnie, the friendly neighborhood antisemite. Yeah, she hangs up signs calling to Nuke Israel and protesting circumcision, but she had a horrible family tragedy, so it's understandable.'
Even by the admittedly low standards that I have for @washingtonpost this is remarkably pathetic