..among liberals in general. It takes a number of forms, all of which serve to explain the explosive and virulent hatreds of the Muslim world for Israel and the Jews (who support it), as a function of the evil that Israel has done to the Palestinians. It includes the widely held assumption that suicide bombings were a response to the despair that Palestinians felt because Israel denied them independence and dignity. ...
The argument, of course, can work inversely: Palestinian anti-Semites have produced icons of hatred that, through modern media, have spread the virus throughout the Muslim world...
Because the Western mainstream news media (MSNM) has mainstreamed some of this propaganda, many people, .. whose only data points are the TV images of terrible violence Israelis do to Palestinians, and TV images of Palestinian hatred assume that the hatreds are at least in part justified. No wonder French Muslims hate you, the French would say to their Jewish co-citoyens, look at what your brethren in Israel do to their cousins in Palestine.