Too late, girl. You have already smeared Israel with the genocide lie, which Is what antisemites do. You also addressed me with an antisemitic slur some months back, a smear a different poster condemned you for. And don’t now put on your mod hat and delete this post.
And I’ve never lied about blacks. Pointing out double standards is not racism.
Where have I accused Israel of genocide?
I have said that the elements for possible genocide exist: rightful public anger at what Hamas did, a public desire for retribution, fears of more attacks, a public narrative that teaches negative things about Palestines making it easier to see them as less than human.
I know what your response will be here…but Hamas. Let’s head that off:
what Hamas did is indefensible, and yes, the Palestinians need a major ideological shift away from a culture of violence. None of that gives Israel a free pass, which is what you appear to claim for Israel (or you yell antisemitism). If you keep using the anti-semitism card, you end up effecting the very real cases of antisemitism that occur, like the boy that cried wolf (racism is the same).
You throw accusations of antisemitism left and right like a screeching harpy when ever someone pokes you by disagreeing with Israel’s policies.
It is a good tactic to avoid discussion isn’t it? When you do that, you open yourself up to assumptions. If you think a statement or position is antisemitic, then explain why. I’m happy to do that and DO when it comes to racism. That’s discussion.
These are the assumptions I make based on your posting:
You feel Israel is a sacred cow, beyond criticism, unlike any other country. A search of your postings fails to find a single actual criticism of anything.
You have stated support the mass expulsion of Palestinians from Gaza and dispersement to other Arab countries (a form of cultural genocide).
I don’t know what you feel about West Bank Palestinians. Do support the settler violence that is leaving villages and farmland abandoned out of fear? Does the Israeli government not have a DUTY to reign in violence and
apply the laws equall….? Or are you going to you jump in with what-abouts - what about the Israeli’s forced to flee their homes in the border towns? Two wrongs do not make a right do they? I don’t have any issue with Israel sending strikes into Lebanon given Hezbollah’s attacks into Israel civilian areas, they have a right and a duty to protect their citizens and borders. But it isn’t free pass and it doesn’t absolve them from criticism of their actions in Gaza.
It is easy to pass off killing aid workers as a “collateral damage” or a “tragic mistake”
if it weren’t for a pattern of reckless targeting, some of which is being based on AI rather than human determinations. It doesn’t absolve Israel from it’s willingness to accept a high civilian death toll (like 200) in order to take out one low level Hamas target. Humanitarian aid workers in conflict zones work closely with all parties involved in the conflict. In this conflict they have coordinated carefully with both Israel and Hamas to ensure safe routes and timing. They are typically in clearly marked vehicles.
Yet this conflict has seen more humanitarian aid workers (and journalists) killed in just six months than any other comparable conflict in a year (including urban).
Is it it deliberate targeting or is it an an attitude based on the belief that Palestinian civilian lives are less than human and aid workers are just in the way, leading to poor oversight and recklessness in targeting and choice of munitions? Stuff is emerging from this indicating that this is not isolated but part of a systemic problem.
When the international community, including Israel’s staunchest, long term, democratic supporters and allies are questioning their support for the way Gaza is being handled, it isn’t anti-semitism, it is a serious questioning of Israel’s policies and conduct in this conflict.
We, as country cannot keep supporting that.
(oops…is this too long a read for you?)