Steven 'JP' Dionne: Defining those opposed to Palestinian slaughter 'antisemitic' is subterfuge

To The Daily Sun,

I once thought stupidity was the primary socio-dysfunction. However, stupidity is the resulting fallout of a delusional mindset, counterfactual biases, oblivious to a fragment of fact-based evidence.

I read recently, that one should "travel to Israel ... to witness a democracy ... representing all Israeli ethnicities." (BS)

A 2015 survey indicated that 65% of Israeli Jews believe they have greater rights than other citizens. (pewresearch.org)

In 2015, Benjamin Netanyahu stated, “Israel is the nation-state of the Jewish people, and only them.”

In 2018 the Israeli Knesset passed the "Nation-State Law". At the heart of the legislation, Jews receive preferential treatment. (truthout.org)

Since October 2023, 1,800 settler movement attacks have occurred in the West Bank, confiscating Palestinian property, and making way for "Jewish only settlements". (amnesty.org)

Eighty-two percent of Israeli Jews like Donald Trump’s plan to permanently expatriate 2 million Palestinians from Gaza. (middleeasteye.net)

Governing a community, by two sets of rules, by any metric, is apartheid, not democracy. (amnesty.org)

Readers lament the kidnapping of 251 Israeli civilians (timesofisrael.com), in the same breath excusing the "mass incommunicado incarceration and torture" of 9,000 Palestinians, under Israel’s Administration Detention Law.(amnesty.org)

Palestinians are held indefinitely without being charged. (btselem.org) (amnesty.org)

The validity of readers' rationale evaporates when they attempt to justify the actions of the extremist Likud government, as the salvation of Judaism. This war, since 1947, is the pursuit of a Zionist Doctrine and not the biblical sanctity of The Torah.

One has only to read Shlomo Ben-Ami's "Prophets without Honor" (lead Israeli negotiator, Camp David 2000), to realize neither side wants peace, extremists on both sides are fully prepared to spill Palestinian blood to win the day.

Defining those who stand opposed to the slaughter as "antisemitic" is subterfuge, to camouflage racist hatred of all Muslims, it’s called "monochromatic racism".

Steven "JP" Dionne

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