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This is a brilliant interview that exposes the greatest threat to liberalism in Europe and N America since the fascist movements in the 30s. In "Jew and AntiSemite" Sarte said that non-Jews view the Jews as somewhat mythical, an abstract group of people that they don't understand, and it's that abstraction that creates the space for attributing to Jews one's own sins. Every N. American person calling for the annihilation of Israel because it's on stolen land is....on (actually) stolen land. But it's easier to call for the removal/killing of Jews that to act on one's own apparent principles.

Brendan is quite right in drawing the overlap between older explicit forms of Jew hatred and today's anti-Zionism. I'd like to add that the expressions "from the river to the sea" and "by any means necessary" were created in the 1940s (before Israel existed) when Islamic leaders were collaborating with the Nazis to create a plan to slaughter all M. Eastern Jews after they were wiped out in Europe. Today's left fails to see that they are following the Nazi playbook word for word.

If Israel loses this war, Islamists will control the entire middle east. They will become a dominant world power, develop nuclear weapons, and work to undermine liberalism--which they despise--wherever they can. And that includes killing 'heretics' as well as other cultural opponents: gays/lesbians, unionists, Jews, and yes, the same Leftist activists who made their dominance possible (read about the Iranian revolution, they slaughtered the left activists who worked to get them into power).

As for Israel, it won't become Palestine. It'll be carved up by Jordan, Lebanon and Egypt and the Pali's will be worse off than they are under Israeli governance, if they even survive.

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Gulp!

Anti-genocide = anti-semitism...

To some... few.

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I don't think that's the view... I don't see the genocide, though... I mean, how should Israel have responded to the attack? What did Hamas expect the result to be of such an attack?

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Progressives do tend to project the sins of the West onto Israel. That's a big part of what's going on -- it goes a long way to explaining the more broad (and shallow/reflexive) opposition to Israel -- but it's also the case that a significant percentage of people who hold strongly anti-Israel Jews use said anti-western academic dogma/cant about colonialism and racism etc as cover for their deep-seated animus against Jews, who were a virulently despised/disfavoured people, including, or especially, in the ME, long before the creation of the state of Israel.

One of the most obvious tells for this deep-seated animus is the use of the word "genocide," which is a ridiculous libel against a nation where 21% of the population are Arabs, most of them Palestinian. Arabs have lived safely in Israel, and prospered, and have been members of the Knesset, ever since Israel's founding.

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Over the last many decades the Palestinians migrated en masse to Egypt, Jordan and I believe Lebanon. Those countries welcomed them in to create their own society and home. Then they booted them out because they couldn't kick the habit of suicide bombing public gatherings. Take a look at the wall separating Gaza and Egypt. It's a hundred times more prohibitive than any wall Israel ever built--I wonder why. And for the record, Israel built the wall with Gaza as a last resort to stop the torrents of Palestinian terrorism against Israelis (including Muslims and Christians).

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