In the news today was a piece about there being more Anti-Semitic attacks lately
It would help if you provided a reference... where are the attacks and who is doing them?
Whom would it help? Certainly not anybody wanting dialogue instead of fact-checking
Are the actions of Israel responsible?
There could be all sorts of reasons for the attacks in the minds of the attackers which may or may not be the real reason for their actions. For example neo-nazis may attack jews because they believe that they are part of a world wide conspiracy to destroy the white race.
I do not buy that anybody seriously believes that. Also Jews, if you insist on using that word, has a capital J like Jon and Jim. Personally, I prefer to talk about Jewish people. I did used to work with a Jewish guy, and he was quite happy to talk about Jews but I'm still not comfortable.
The white race destruction conspiracy may be the story they tell themselves over and over until they're in their hate zone.
However their actual motivation may be that they are trying to compensate for psychological inadequacies.
Their inadequacies may be more basic. I can believe that what's going on there is "You may have more money and success than me but I can duff you up good." Pretty much straight envy.
Having said that it seems pretty clear to me that many of the actions of the Israeli state are objectionable and unfortunately the worldwide outrage about this has enabled anti-semitism to creep in the back door in some instances.
Yes, the answer to "Who shall I hate today?" might be different without those objectionable actions.
What about the way in which those actions are reported by our biased media?
Well different segments of the media are biased in different ways, so you would have to ask the attackers how they formed their views I think.
Yes, I'm sure the attackers would be willing and able to enter a well-formed discourse on the matter. They'd probably mention their psychological inadequacies.
Then again, in not asking them I am perhaps falling into the same trap that they have. After all, racist bully-boys are humans too.
Are racists who attack Jewish people striking a blow for Palestinian liberation?
No, they are striking a blow for racism.
Specifically, racism towards Jewish people. If Israel wasn't (being reported as) oppressing Palestine, would they be striking a blow for racism towards somebody else?
A Jewish guy living in England opens the newspaper one morning. The headline is about Israeli oppression in Palestine and he's all like, "thanks guys."
By the end of the day he's had so much race-hate directed at him he wants to leave the country.
"Where can I go?" he asks himself.
The same paper that has Israeli Oppression on the front page has the rise of European Antisemitism on the second page.
Maybe this is why people move to Israel? And once they're there, somewhere has to be found for them to live. It's a feedback loop.
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