Thread by @gauravsabnis

It's as if Hindus never ever lived in Israel and are thus not really a relevant factor in the Israel-Palestine equation, so Dhume the rich Indian Hindu tourist in Israel did not get a first hand experience of what Palestinians experience in Israel.

This is classic Dhume BTW.
He starts off with a convenient strawman that he can then write a whole column tearing down.

Straw man this time is suggesting that all or most activists who criticize Israel say it's unsafe to be bearded or brown in Israel. Eh? What? But Dhume.

Dhume knows that the complaints against Israel are not that brown bearded people are treated with suspicion in Israel. Why would they be? It's absurd.

But Dhume has a column deadline and no other ideas. So he decides to make that a thing.

That Israel doesn't harass him. 🤷🏽‍♂️

So he will first build up this straw man, usually borrowed from the AEI/Bannon/Breitbart/Reason/FoxNews ecosystem.

And then pretend like being a brown Marathi boy in Israel with a beard and not being harassed is proof that Palestinians are cool and Israel is cool.

I have rarely met a dumber man

No one has ever suggested that Israel is a place where bearded brown folks will get treated differently.

Dhume makes it up and then writes a column giving Israel a medal and ignores actual criticisms of how Israel treats Palestinians, regardless of facial hair or skin tone.