Let’s be real. This has nothing to do with Qatar. It’s just the Trump administration retaliating against any institution that doesn’t fall in line. That’s the only thing these people care about: loyalty and control, plain and simple.
I was commenting to OP blaming the situation on AIPAC, which is not even in the top 10 list of donors, and has much less impact than most people believe.
It basically made criticising Israel automatically "anti-Semitic".
While someone who has previously said that the Jews are importing immigrants to intentionally undermine the USA who gave multiple Seig Heils was an ambiguous situation that they didn't want to rush to judgement on.
They basically destroyed all their credibility by becoming an advocate for Israel not for Jewish people.
They consider being anti-zionist to be antisemitic. This one section alone. The remainder is fine but I believe this shows they can't disconnect Israel from Jewishness
"Examples of when such critiques cross into antisemitism include when they ostracize and vilify Zionists and Zionism"
It's perfectly fine to criticize the government of any country. But is anyone in the UK, or Syria, or Iraq (my birthplace) saying those countries don't have a right to exist? Why just Israel?
When you have a standard that exists for one country or people that doesn't exist for anyone else, isn't that the definition of bigotry in all its forms?
1. Hating someone for an attribute they can't fix or were born with is wrong. For example, skin color, sexual orientation, or being Jewish*
This is wrong because a Black person can't stop being Black, a gay man can't stop being attracted to men. In other words it's not the fault of the person.
2. Hating a person because of a belief is different. Hating all Nazis is bigotry but almost all people wouldn't consider that wrong. Hating all people who think Israel should be a country is also bigotry. The big difference is the person has control over their belief.
> standard
What standard? Who is setting this standard?
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* Being Jewish is considered both an ethnicity and religion, it's complicated. Hitler didn't care if jews converted, his definition was ethnic. In this conversation I'm considering it an ethnicity.
