“Completely unfounded”, huh? Oh, you’re just ASKING for it….
1.) You get angry that Arabs call your state the Zionist entity, but don’t mind denying the very existence of Palestine.
2.) You think the concept of a Master Race is atrocious, but you don’t mind the idea of the Chosen People.
3.) You think Hitler was a monster for stealing land in Eastern Europe where “Aryans” used to live, but you don’t mind massive Jewish immigration into Palestine based on religious fables from 4,000 years ago.
4.) You call people antisemitic when people compare you to Nazis, but you don’t mind embracing ethnic nationalism, land annexation, and ethnic cleansing because those are just part of Jewish liberation.
5.) You say Palestinians are really just Jordanians and Egyptians, but you’d be offended if we called Israelis Russians or Germans or [insert country] instead of Israelis.
6.) You think that Hitler’s war machine rolling through Europe is not justified for “preserving Germany”, but you don’t mind that Israel struck pre-emptively in 1967, avoided peace talks and had a history of attacking its neighbors.
7.) You call Jewish suicide bombers of the 1948 war patriots and heroes, but you can’t fathom why a Palestinian might blow himself up after his house has been demolished.
8.) You think the Jewish ghettos in Poland during the Holocaust were a human rights crisis, but you have no problem starving Palestinians from food in Gaza and walling them in in the West Bank.
9.) You say Israel is the lone democracy in the Middle East, but don’t mind having pro-Israel groups like AIPAC or the AJC screw up the democratic traditions of the USA.
10.) You say Israel is the freest country in the Middle East, but you don’t mind when Israeli troops fire at courageous Jewish anti-occupation protesters in Bi’lin or orthodox Jews in Jerusalem.
11.) You think the Jews should be able to freely celebrate their heritage, but you think the Palestinian flag (raised 30 years before Israel was even created in 1948) is antisemitic.
12.) You think aerial bombardments, house arrest, land annexation, and other forms of collective punishment are “defensive,” but you consider suicide bombings “inhumane” and “terroristic”.
13.) You consider it antisemitic when Nazis and racists identify Jews with the State of Israel, but you have no problem identifying Jews with the state of Israel yourself.
14.) You would be horrified if someone told you that Nazism is in the blood of the German people, but you don’t mind the idea that all Jews should support the State of Israel.
15.) You hate antisemites, but you think Jews don’t have enough individualism or moral consciousness to disagree with Israeli policy without being “self-hating Jews”.
16.) You think the Palestinians hate democracy, but you don’t mind assassinating democratically elected Palestinian leaders AND democratically elected Israeli leaders like Yitzhak Rabin.
17.) You believe in the “right to return” of Jews to a country they’ve never been to, but not if the Jewish person is critical of Israel (i.e. Norman Finkelstein).
18.) Expressions like “the supremacy of the nation,”"the sanctity of our historic values,” “the cradle of our ancient culture,’”"the eternity of war and the sanctity of blood” are common, as is “gentile” for “cattle.”
19.) You create conflict with neighboring countries and seek to dominate them and drive out unwanted ethnicities (i.e Lebanon and soon Iran). You also consistently break ceasefires and continue this genocide because you know the U.S. will back you up thanks to AIPAC and neoconservative thugs.
20.) You’ve built up to 400 nuclear weapons and have refused to acknowledge them or sign the nuclear non-proliferation treaty.
Now they’ll have no choice but to fit me in the Brown language classes, ha!
