P F Tinmore
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. I don't dispute that historically, the Jews have been treated like shit and not just from Islams or even the worst by Islam.
Then they shouldn't be Jews and declare themselves the superior race tasked with slaughtering unbelievers. Jews are hated because of the actions of Jews, which they refuse to repudiate.
You're lumping all Jews into one category, which is no better than those who lump all of Islam into one category, and is no more accurate. The vast majority of Jews do not consider themselves tasked with "slaughtering unbelievers" any more than the vast majority of Muslims or Christians.
Israel's actions are the actions of a state - not a religion and should be criticized with that in mind. Even within Israel there is a diversity of opinion supporting and opposing Israel's policies towards the Palestinians. The most accurate information and some of the most vocal opponents come from within Israel itself.
Jew's are "hated" for a variety of reasons most of which stem from events over a thousand years ago, centuries of oppression by the dominating religions at the time which passed religiously-based laws restricting them, killing them, driving them out of their lands defining them through conspiracy theory style stories that have fed centuries of anti-semitism.
The settler movement of "fundamentalist" Jews in Israel is a pretty small group with an outsized political voice, kind of like the Dominionist Christians in America. To hate all Jews for the actions of a few is ignorant and define them all by this means is anti-semitic, wouldn't you say?
The last statement..."which they refuse to repudiate"....reminds me of the ongoing and equally false claim against Muslims, that they refuse to repudiate the excess' of extremists. If you read the Israeli media or information from sites such as B'tselem, you will find there is substantial repudiation.
That's true. You can't say the Jews or the Muslims, the blacks, or the anybody. There are a wide variety among all of them.
There are many Palestinians that you will not see on MEMRI.
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oGx3-1gAnQ]Dr Mustafa Barghouti's address to Compass conference 2007 - YouTube[/ame]