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Ricemills posted...

If support for Palestine are allowed to be called antisemitic, then support for Israel should be allowed to be called Islamophobic too.

Support for Palestine isnt necessarily antisemitic. Support for Hamas is. One is a national identity that just so happens to have a claim to the same land that Israel does. The other is a terrorist organization whose sole purpose to exist is to murder Jews and wipe out the Jewish state. Nuance matters. Just like support for Israel isnt Islamaphobia, but support for Israeli expansion into the West Bank is.

The problem is that damn chant. It really depends on what your interpretation of what it means. If you are calling two states living side by side freely, its not. If you are calling for one state called Palestine, which at the same time eliminates the national identity of Israelis and Jewish self determination in Israel, well then its a different story. Theres nothing wrong with wanting to improve the Palestinian condition as it pertains to their national sovereignty and basic human rights. Hell, there are a lot of Israelis who want the same thing.

But if your solution to a situation that you believe to be ethnic cleansing is only more ethnic cleansing, well its the hypocrisy of your idea that shows who you really are. Because even if you are right, you cant call it a crime and then do it anyway.

I really do not understand why you guys continue to try and oversimplify this to a black and white issue all the time.