I suggest you drop this and start working on regaining some of your lost respect. How about that?
Nah, I am not interested in the "respect" of morons who accuse me of antisemitism. Particularly when they offer advice on regaining respect while doubling down on that absurd slander.
I haven't been saying I think a lot of the pro-Palestine rhetoric is antisemitism because I'm trying to insult anyone, or hurt anyone's feelings. I haven't intended it as slander. I'm saying it, because I think it really is antisemitism. Western culture has a deep cultural grove cut into its thought, which makes it harder for us to think critically about Jews. Whatever side is fighting Jews we have a tendency to feel more sorry for the other side. The word for that is antisemitism. And Jews are not bulletproof to this way of thinking themselves. Western Jews are embedded in a gentile culture. They're bound to be influenced. A lot of Jews in Israel also are. Israel is part of the wider world and consume the same media. The Israeli left say a lot of the same things that the left does all over the west. But it's delusional. When delusions hit reality, they often shatter. This is the reason the Israeli left is so weak today, and why Netanyahu still is in power, despite his enormous failure as a prime minister in his previous term.
I think it's more nuanced than just racism. The western left is today postmodern. It's obsessed with structural oppression and to identify who is the most victim. Whoever has suffered the most is automatically the one who is morally superior, no matter culpability.
While Islam is a victimhood culture. Pretty much, the only people they elevate are martyrs. Having suffered for your cause, and ideally die, is the highest status.
These two in combination is an ideological dynamite, that the western left doesn't seem to know how to deal with. Arabs can commit all manner of horrific acts of violence, but since they never really use any win to enrich themselves. That's not the goal of it. As long as all they do is make themselves and everyone around them more miserable, the left struggles with condemning it.
When Netanyahu said that Jews have been losing the propaganda war for 2000 years, he wasn't wrong. Most Jews are resigned to antisemtism. They're aware of it. But treat it as a force of nature. They do little to combat it, argue their side or convince anyone. Since they've largely opted out of the propaganda war, they lose it even more than they would otherwise.
When I call things antisemitism, I'm not doing it flippantly or as a knee jerk reaction. Each time I've used the term here I've given the person I've been talking with every opportunity to make a coherent argument. I've only ever called people antisemetic when they're out of arguments. If you lack rational arguments, that leaves the irrational arguments.
