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Palestinians carry the bodies of members of the Kaware family that hospital officials said were killed in an Israeli air strike on their house, during their funeral in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip July 9, 2014.
Palestinians carry the bodies of members of the Kaware family that hospital officials said were killed in an Israeli air strike on their house, during their funeral in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip July 9, 2014.
The civilian casualties, though almost certainly overstated to include Hamas fighters in civilian clothes, are tragic. The death of so many children is heartbreaking.
But there is another important phenomenon on which we should reflect now, even before the conflict is over: The widespread global eruption of openly anti-Semitic rhetoric and violence in the name of anti-Zionism.
Anti-Semitism has reared its head almost everywhere there are pro-Palestinian street protests.
A heavily Jewish section of Paris was looted and attacked as crowds shouted "Gas the Jews," in what correctly has been called a pogrom. Multiple synagogues and Jewish centers in Paris and elsewhere in France were firebombed, and neo-Nazi salutes were center stage.
Comment: The author makes it seem like he's sympathetic to the plight of the Palestinians, yet is very clearly blaming the victims. What a fine piece of propaganda from a slime bucket called Thehill.com
"Anti-Semitic theory therefore is Zionist trope. Even the term 'anti-Semitism' is a ruse. After all, the intermittent animus directed towards Jews has little to do with their Semitic origins or even 'Semitism' itself--whatever that may be. Arabs, of course, are a Semitic people; yet Americans are continuously steered towards mistrusting or despising them."
The virtue & necessity of deconstructing 'anti-semitism'