The UN: Spewers of Hate

Not everyone who hates Israel, hates Jews, even our US State Department recognizes that oftentimes the two are connected

The collective effect of unremitting criticism of Israel, coupled with a failure to pay attention to regimes that are demonstrably guilty of grave violations, has the effect of reinforcing the notion that the Jewish state is one of the sources, if not the greatest source, of abuse of the rights of others, and thus intentionally or not encourages anti-Semitism

I disagree. I think it is a rhetorical dodge to pretend opposition to Israel as distinct from hatred of Jews.

The reason for this was the strident condemnation of antisemitism after World War II. Anyone who expressed antisemitic opinions was immediately dismissed as a kook, *and* what they said was discounted as intolerable ravings.

So criticism of Israel was used to evade such condemnation.

Importantly, it got extra justification from trying to piggyback on Jews, when *they* criticized Israel. But this is as hollow as a white person who uses the “n” word when attacking blacks, using as the excuse that “black people call each other that all the time.”

Looking at Israel objectively for a minute, and the question comes to mind of why, exactly, would Americans criticize Israel, as a nation, in the first place?

To start with, the US is as divorced from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as it is, or at least should be, from the Hutu-Tutsi fight in Africa. Any interest that exists in the first place has questionable, and likely, antisemitic origins, mostly from the political left.

So what remains? Why be upset with Israel?

And this goes back to the first point. Leftists and Democrats are coming out of the closet about their hatred of Jews, and by extension, Israel. They are no longer as fearful of being openly antisemitic, so why keep up the pretense on their behalf?

Let them be openly antisemitic. Let the hate both Jews and Israel, as the same thing.

Because this will show everybody else who the left really are. And the rest of us will still look with disdain at antisemites, thus dispelling even more the left’s illusion that they are other than kooks, spewing intolerable ravings of hate.

“I think it is a rhetorical dodge to pretend opposition to Israel as distinct from hatred of Jews.”
I think we are agreeing on this point.
I would just add that hatred of Jews is generally religion based. It is not restricted just to Liberals, but liberals are exceedingly embarrassed by their anti-semitic beliefs because it displays just how bound they are to religious precepts. Mel Gibbs is not so far from the Liberal Left, he just has the drunken inhibition to say what he is thinking.

Remember the truth lies in the wine.

Except that philosophy is even more vehemently antisemitic than are religions other than Islam. And while there are clearly religious roots to atheistic philosophies, philosophy itself has reached a point where it must destroy the concept of monotheistic God to survive.

And the very foundation of this idea rests with the Hebrews, and their descent, the Jews.

It is a reoccurring theme in the Pentateuch that the one thing that could be done that often resulted in divine retribution was to challenge God’s supremacy. And modern philosophy is nothing but that.

It has to do with origins, purposes and ends.

At its worst, Ferdinand and Isabella required the Jews to either convert or leave their realm. Much of the justification of this was the idea that Jews living side-by-side with “conversos”, converts to Christianity, would lead the latter to stray from their new faith.

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But to these modern philosophies, conversion or expulsion wasn’t enough. Jews had to be annihilated, as they believed in God, not the state, as supreme being. This is seen across the spectrum of philosophies. The state must destroy God to become the new god.

And this was not limited to just Jews.

I think we agree on many things, but I disagree on your conclusion of causes. Origins,purposes, and ends are justifications. What underlies those justifications is the true evil. Christianity, (mostly in the past) and islam today preach and teach hatred of Jews in particular. This is a rather Freudian in nature since the Jewish religion is the parent of both Christianity and Islam.
Judaism was not, obviously, a willing parent nor are the children legitimate in a marital analogy sense. This “family” although excessively disfunctional, is a family.

As a historical note, during the Inquistion many Jews were never given the option of leaving, many more forced to leave without family members and most had their property confiscated by the Crown and the Church. The Inquistion was as horrendus and as tragic as the Holocaust. The differences between the two is that the Spanish are simply less organized then the Germans.

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