Comments on: AP: Israel causes anti-Semitism https://www.yourish.com/2009/04/21/7238 Cutting straight to the point Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:53:22 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Eric J https://www.yourish.com/2009/04/21/7238/comment-page-1#comment-36489 Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:53:22 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=7238#comment-36489 They seem to have left out at least 3278 anti-Semitic attacks from 2008. In fact, in my skimming of the report, there were, amazingly, no anti-Semitic incidents occurring in Gaza, the West Bank or Israel.

]]> By: Alex Bensky https://www.yourish.com/2009/04/21/7238/comment-page-1#comment-36487 Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:22:28 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=7238#comment-36487 If Israel cannot defend itself in a manner that causes not a whit of harm or inconvenience to the Palestinians, then by golly it’s going to have to expect the world to roundly criticize it and how can you expect people to do anything other than assault Jews and otherwise participate in anti-Semitic acts?

Israel could forestall this sort of righteous response if it made more of an effort to conform itself to what the world wants. And what that is Golda Meir discerned years ago, “a fine, liberal, anti-militaristic, anti-colonialist dead Jewish people.”

Somehow “blaming the victim” is a defense against almost anything unless it involves Jews. I wonder why that is. OK, I don’t wonder.

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