"...as for 'belaboring the racism theme', you all keep defending what is a blatantly racist statement and basically, while i find the racism not in the slight bit humorous, my comments were more about your and other's stupidity in defending, applauding, or remaining silent about that racism and how it did not help your cause at all."
Who is 'you all'?
Frankly, only a couple of pro-Israeli folks in this thread have 'defended' the comment(s)-in-question, and most of the rest of us feel no particular compulsion to serve-up 'condemnation', as you have been so stridently and annoyingly calling for, mostly because neither the person who made the comment nor anyone who have backed-up the comment-maker are truly perceived by most of us as (1) racist or (2) intending those remarks in a 'racist' context, despite they way they were received in some quarters.
Rather, consider both the original comment and any lightweight indicators of support to be more
Intentional Irritant or
Intentional Provocation in a heated debate context.
And, consider the Deafening Silence from other non-involved pro-Israel supporters to be
more a matter of not being willing to play your game and allow you to control what they say and when they say it and how they say it, through some kind of juvenile exercise in berating a large audience segment for not lining up behind you in support of your mini-jihad to discredit a couple of colleagues who are largely in good standing.
When the vast majority of pro-Israel supporters hereabouts, who have seen your posts, see you engage in a juvenile and partisan process of attributing Racism to all supporters of Israel, and foolishly clamoring about how an off-color remark or two is to be hung about the necks of all on on side of the debate, and how everyone who doesn't line up behind your Condemnation Campaign is guilty of what the off-color remarks suggest, or worse, well, you've gotta expect some 'negative feedback'.
Most of us don't have the same pressing need to be militantly proactive about matters of race, to the extent suggested by your present avatar (1968 Mexico games, right?), and consider such belaboring to be over-doing it... a pain in the ass, and then some.
We're not on the same page, with respect to priorities and intensity. Sorry.
We're also unwilling to sit still and to take shit about being 'racist' when nothing could be further than the truth for so many of us. And I'm
NOT sorry about saying
THAT, in the slightest.
Hope that helps.