An op-ed about the anti-Semitism of anti-Zionists in the Globe and Mail:
Anti-Zionists promote their cause by propagating phony charges against Israel to discredit and delegitimize the Jewish state. Wishful thinkers ignore the anti-Semitism at the core of anti-Zionist criticism and fantasize that, if only Israel avoided this or that behaviour that anti-Zionists decry, the two-state solution would be at hand.
This fantasy world has many imaginary constructions. One of these is that Palestinians who support anti-Zionists do not want to destroy Israel. Mary Corkery of KAIROS and Etienne De Jonghe of Pax Christi International asserted this remarkable proposition in a letter to the editor published in The Globe and Mail on Dec. 22. They wrote that Palestinians who voted for the anti-Zionist terrorist organization Hamas in last January’s Palestinian election “did not vote to destroy Israel, nor do they want this.” The authors do not explain how they know that Palestinians wanted something different from the platform of the party for which they voted.
Read it all.
Sadly, the comments left by Globe and Mail readers simply prove the author’s point. With few exceptions, the comments were filled with hate, distortions, exaggerations, lies (I loved the citation to Wikkipedia as “proof” of the average Israeli’s supposed hatred of Arabs), false history, charges that anti-Semitism is being falsely invoked to stifle criticism of a racist apartheid state, moral outrage that anyone would even try to defend Israel’s existence let along actions, and all the other charming attributes of the “progressive, peace loving anti-racist” anti-Zionist camp, yemach shemam.
Yankev, Even more sadly, as a Canadian, those comments don’t surprise me coming from my fellow Canadians. They disgust me, though.