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Anti-Semitism and You

By Manila Ryce
Published Wednesday, July 5th, 2006, 6:27 pm
Filed under: Terrorism, Personal Posts

So I’ve occasionally been accused of being anti-Semitic by faceless internet personas regarding my criticism of Israel. While this would normally make me laugh at the utter idiocy of that logic, I feel I should say something due to my latest posts implying that Israel is a terrorist state. Simply put, it is. But why is Israel off limits to criticism, while the rest of the world is fair game? When people criticize North Korea do we accuse them of being anti-Korean? It seems as though international sympathy for the holocaust has given Israel the right to do as it pleases, including the orchestration of its own genocide against the Palestinian people. Furthermore, the number of Chinese and Russian civilians massacred in WWII exceeded the number of Jewish holocaust casualties. Why then are China and Russia not entitled to the same rights of unchecked power that we allot Israel for their victimization? Hell, even the biggest terrorist state in the world, America, is not immune to criticism from the international community regarding the legality of its actions. Is the world really that concerned with being politically correct that they’d stand by and say nothing as Israel wipes Palestine off the map? Something as trivial as race shouldn’t effect foreign policy. I for one will not remain silent for fear of being called a racist.

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4 Responses to “Anti-Semitism and You”

  1. I don’t think you need to justify your criticism of Israel’s military overkill by downplaying the holocaust, cuz that does seem anti-semitic, and I know you’re not. The actions and behavior of the State of Israel, while justly deemed terrorist, vengeful, and rife with inferiority complex, should not be seen as necessarily indicative of the Jewish people in general. And yes, I absolutely agree, the capture of one Israeli soldier by a small group of militants in Palestine does not justify a complete and systematic annihilation of that country’s infrastructure, nor of her peoples. The US remaining silent, even in the face of the fucking Swiss, historically renowned for their neutrality, criticizing the blatently over-militaristic actions of Israel is just one more reason for “them” to hate us so much, a fact that an alarming number of Americans just can’t seem to comprehend.

    PapaFigue
    07/6/06 at 4:31 am

  2. @PapaFigue
    my intention was not to downplay the holocaust in any way by saying that the chinese and russians have a higher number of casualties. i believe that facts are facts, and identifying the holocaust as a uniquely jewish tragedy is to lose part of the lesson behind that event. during WWII dozens of nations lost millions of people. We should be mourning the loss of human life, not jewish life specifically. i even hate using the word anti-semitic since it’s a separatist term which places jews and non-jews into two different categories. it’s this very ideology that lead to the holocaust in the first place.

    Administrator
    07/6/06 at 4:41 am

  3. Hold on,
    as horrific as the holocaust was it wasn’t only Jews affected. Gypsies, disabled and even Greeks suffered the holocaust and experiments in WWII.
    It happened, it was horrific but we need to move on, Looking back while time is advancing is the most stupid thing to do.
    One thing i hate is a kid searching for an ancient scar on their body as an excuse to cry!

    DarkAngelJG
    07/7/06 at 3:18 am

  4. It’s not numbers that determine a genocide, it is intent and action. All war related deaths are horrific. May people suffered and many died. Bur Russians and Chinese were not marched into death chambers and killed solely because of their ethnicity. That’s where the difference is. i discount nobody’s suffering, it doesn’t serve to move us forward. there is , however a dirfference in quality to the genocides in Europe in WWII, be they of jews, gypsies, serbs, greek, homosexual, whatever. Just like there is a qualitative difference in what is hap[ening in Darfur, and happened in Rwanda and Congo - those are inter ethnic genocides, rather than wars over land, water, etc..

    Ellen
    02/5/07 at 10:35 am

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