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I only wonder why you conflate the Gaza massacre with "real" anti-Semitism. That's an excuse that the Israeli government is using to silence their critics. Talk about crying wolf! And it's working about as well as crying wolf always does: it's creating the very anger it seems to decry.

You misunderstand my point. After gaza, the depth and breadth of the underlying true antisemitism that already existed was revealed

People are so bent up over gaza that it can be difficult for them to not force points of view to fit their internal framing

What do you think of the slaughter of tens of thousands of civilians in gaza?

You didn't ask me Daniel but I'll tell you what i think. Intentions matter. And credibility matters.

NYT and BBC have had to eat too much crow, after having accepted Hamas claims of Israeli atrocities at face value, and then later made fools when faced w/ electronic data captured by Israeli and US intelligence. BBC in particular ran multiple stories with Crisis Actor Mr. FAFO playing his many roles before they finally, finally woke up to the fact they were being duped.

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The intentions of zionists have been to get rid of the palestinian people since the beginning of all of this when they took their land. Israel is an apartheid terrorist state.

Wasn't it the vaunted UNITED NATIONS who after WWII ended, VOTED to give the Jewish people a tiny slice of land in what had been Jewish land a couple thousand years ago?

The UN discussed it and I'm not sure there was an overwhelming agreement, but Truman was on board which I believe paved the way. The Brits had control of that area after WWII.

The UN, even at that time, I'm sure was planning ways to devise future conflicts and a state of Israel would be one way.

I have a different memory. We actually opposed but ussr pushed hard for it seeking an open door into the Middle East.

We did - our State Dept pushed hard to stop it while Russia was for it. Truman, against their advice, made the US the first to recognized the new State and was followed by the U.S.S.R. who I believe had perhaps millions of Jews in their country, they still do.

Lets not forget that an obscure state department EMPLOYEE - Alger Hiss - who just happened to (also) be a member of the CPUSA and an active Soviet agent, was instrumental in formulating the Charter (of) the soon to be "United Nations"; or that Alger Hiss was the "1st secretary" of the fledgling UN at its 1st meeting in San Francisco; or that he 'rigged' the UN Charter giving the U.S.S.R., (2) votes in the UN Security Council; or that Hiss was finally convicted (via the evidence provided by anot…

Perhaps that speaks to why Israel operates in many ways, like the old USSR.