Calling Out Israel’s Campaign Against Palestinians Is Not Anti-Semitism

[Galraedia]

Every American knows intrinsically there are two mortal sins that are not in any legal statute, the United States Constitution, or federal legislation, but violating them is tantamount to burning the American flag and committing crimes against humanity. One is questioning, or uttering a negative comment about, Christian fundamentalists imposing religious tyranny on the nation. The other is questioning, or failing to praise, the nation of Israel that brings accusations of anti-Semitism, throwing Israel under the proverbial bus, or supporting extremist Muslim terrorists.

Supporting Israel unconditionally has become the hallmark of American patriotism, and questioning anything it does is of the Devil, treason, attacking god, anti-Semitic, assaulting the holy bible, and an affront to Christianity. So be it. But one would rather be a pariah than sit idly by while America’s protégé wages war against innocent Palestinian civilians who were herded onto a Native American-like reservation under threat of annihilation, or tricked into going there with a false promise of being granted a homeland. A promise Israel, and American conservatives, will spend eternity seeing never comes to pass.

The current Israeli invasion of Gaza, an area basically the size of Detroit, where two-million Palestinians are sequestered with no means of escape, was allegedly reprisal for a criminal act that resulted in the killing of three Israeli students. It is precisely the same situation that George W. Bush took advantage of to launch two wars against Muslim nations whose people or governments had nothing whatsoever to do with the Bush’s Saudi friends flying commercial airliners into American buildings.
According to Israel, the altruists were “minding their own business” and seeking a peaceful resolution with Palestinians when Hamas launched rockets into the Jewish state. First and foremost, like its partner in crime under Republican administrations, Israel never minds its own business; it minds the business of aggression against Arabs whether in Gaza, the West Bank, or Iran.

Regarding the kidnappings, Israel blamed Hamas but never produced an ounce of credible evidence, so fundamentalist Jews kidnapped and killed a Palestinian child according to the Old Testament’s “eye for an eye” legal statute. However, the kidnappings on either side are not the reason for Hamas allegedly firing missiles into Israel any more than Israel invading Gaza and killing hundreds of Palestinians is about exacting retribution on Hamas over the kidnappings. It is a continuation of Israel’s land grab of a promised Palestinian homeland with increasing Israeli occupations and settlements that are squeezing the Palestinian people into an ever-shrinking interment camp.

Read more: http://www.politicususa.com/2014/07/22/calling-israels-violent-campaign-palestinians-anti-semitism.html

[HERVEPA]

1. Sometimes is, sometimes isn't. Depends on how it's done.

[msongs]

2. Palestinians are semites too ....

definition of semite/semitic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semitic

[tritsofme]

3. Wow, fun fact. Totally irrelevent to the meaning and etymology of the term Anti-Semitism

But fun fact to share nonetheless.

[Codeine]

6. Amusingly, the very article you've linked to

makes it clear that the term "antisemitic" applies to Jews specifically rather than Semites in a more general sense.

That's only been pointed out to you about a brazilian times now, of course.

[oberliner]

4. Hamas allegedly firing missiles into Israel?

It's just alleged that they are firing?

Also, how is invading Gaza part of a land grab?

[Codeine]

5. Of course it isn't. But sadly, it too often goes hand-in-hand with Antisemitism.

I think some people use it as a way to veil generic Jew-hating even here on occasion (a few posters have felt the banhammer because of it), but being opposed to what Israel is doing does not automatically make a poster an anti-Semite.

[LexVegas]

7. One of the biggest red flags for me is when someone immediately tries to tell me...

the definition of "Semite" or that anti-Semite is not just hatred of Jews.....which is bullshit.

[davidpdx]

8. The question is how they can say "mind your own business" yet at the same time

take billions of dollars of aid and ask our country to assist in attacking other countries. I'm personally becoming sick and tired of the situation going on between Israel and the Palestinians as it sucks up so much of our focus (and money) in foreign policy all the time.

How long have things been fairly quite with North Korea? It's a sure bet Kim Jong Un will start making more noise soon since we are paying very little attention. (Yes, I know about the shelling off the coast and the missile launches, but those are both extremely mild compared to what he, his father, and grandfather have done in the past)