rylah
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Not really. It is not about religion. It is about colonization. What would be the narrative about Zionists or Jews be if Palestine was colonized by Hindus?I don't see the relevance to all this. This is not a religious conflict. All of this so called "Jew hate" and "anti-Semitism" is merely a distraction.First, let's get some old chestnuts out of the way:
This is what I do believe:
- I don't believe that the terms “antisemitism” and “anti-Zionism” are synonyms.
- I don't believe that anti-Zionism is the same as Jew-hatred.
- I don't believe that every single anti-Zionist is a Jew-hater
- And I don't believe that every single criticism of Israel is inspired by Jew-hatred.
Very many (though not all) anti-Zionists and critics of Israel are indeed Jew-haters; though there's no necessary political or conceptual link between anti-Zionism (or the criticism of Israel) and Jew-hatred. What often happens is that very many people who have a problem with Jews are drawn to anti-Zionism and become obsessed with Israel.
Thus, anti-Zionism and the obsession with Israel are examples of Jew-hatred by proxy. So there are, indeed, very strong historical, theoretical, and political links (all contingent, sure) between anti-Zionism (or the criticism of Israel) and Jew-hatred. One of those links I will discuss here: the history of Far Left Jew-hatred.
The Left's Historical Obsession With Jews and Israel
It obviously is a religious conflict, certainly from the Arab-Moslem perspective, as that has been delineated for you on multiple occasions.
The world would see a small headline about some Hindo-Arab war and yawn thinking "Oh look another Ayrab war", and move on with their life, clearly there's a systematic obsession that drives people nut whenever Jews do something that is considered normal when done by another: