Why U.S. supports Israel

[Justin Schwartz]

>
>I actually agree with this point, but it points out why another argument 
>used
>by some pro-Palestinians, namely that Arabs can't be anti-semites since 
>they
>are the same race as Jews, doesn't hold up.  Jews in Israel get denounced 
>as
>white colonialists when it serves one rhetorical purpose, then get treated 
>as
>just one more semetic race among many when their unique history wants to be
>denied.

Ashkenazi Jews aren'rsemites, anyway, we're descendents of Causaian 
tribesman, closer, "racially," to Georgians and Azheris than anyone else. 
But this is besidesthe point. "antisemite" means Jew-hating; it's not a term 
referring to real or purported "racial" ancestry.


>
>Given the large number of Mizrachi/Sephardic Jews in Israel due to fleeing
>oppression in Arab states following the 1948 war . ..it would seem that the 
>one
>million plus Jews in Israel who had to flee Arab oppression have a similar
>claim.
>

This is not exactlt a hotly contested point outside, maybe, Hamas, I mean, 
even the PA and PLO agree that Israel has a "right to exist."

jks

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