Thread by @dilanesper

What I wish people would realize about anti-semitism is that it isn't enough to say "it's theoretically possible to harshly criticize Israel without being anti-semitic".

Yes it is. But lots of Palestinian Cause types traffic in anti-semitism and don't face sufficient opprobrium.

And again, hashtag "not all Palestinian Cause types". Absolutely right. Some strident advocates for Palestinians and even some one state solution types do express proper horror about October 7, Bondi Beach, etc.

But lots of others look immediately to justify and minimize.

And again, they don't face sufficient opprobrium for it.

Remember Russell Rickford, the Cornell professor who said he was "exhilarated" by October 7? He should have been shunned. Confronted. He shouldn't be canceled, but people should stand up to folks who say stuff like that.

Same with all the public figures in Palestinian movements who engaged in post-October 7 rape denialism. Nobody should lose their job, but this sort of thing should be SOCIALLY unacceptable. People should think less of you if you say that garbage.

What has happened is the Palestinian Cause has become a movement that systematically denies Jewish pain and suffering, based on its asserted theories that Jews as a group are an oppressor class because they have a state in Historic Palestine and deserve what they get.

And all who don't believe that-- including ESPECIALLY the folks who intensely dislike Israel yet don't believe that-- have to stand up to it and make it unacceptable to say in polite company.

The folks who shoot Jews on the beach should know they will get no support.