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Originally Posted by Wandrin
Forgive me if I am naive, but antisemitism is a dislike for and/or prejudice against the Jewish people, only some of which live in Israel and only some of which support Israeli political policy. I don't understand how disagreeing with political policy translates to antisemitism.
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I think...
think, the point was that it seems like anymore if you are critical of Israeli policy your quickly labeled anti-semetic, not that it truly is or makes you anti-semetic.
Thats my feeling anyway. We're so married to this path and it is deeply and wholly centered in our ideology and its relation to their ideology when it comes to your average christian voter. Thats where most of it comes from, beyond that its politicians using that need to be approved of for obvious reasons. When it comes to others though, there is in my opinion a group who feels like that keeps a window open between us in which we maintain our foothold, our only foothold in the middle east in which we have an interest where we arent completely hated. So, there is a sort of mutually assured abandonment in parallel to the destruction. Over there though, almost no one likes the Israelis, and pretty much us. So, you stick with who likes you at all even if at times tenuous and you defend that.
In both those cases that defense does not have to be correct or even rational or reasonable.