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Originally Posted by Bill Bumface
The problem is this statement:
There isn't "lots of blame" to go around. Jewish people who don't support the war being targeted because they are Jewish is not the fault of the Israeli government, or the fault of the Jewish people in question - it's the fault of the racists.
Now "racists" isn't really the word here, so we reach for "anti-semites".
In this case they are absolutely hated because they are Jewish. To say it's the fault of the Israeli government for innocent people of a certain ethnicity to be targeted is letting the racists off the hook.
When Black people are getting lynched do we stop to say "Is it really because they are Black, or because of what that bad gang of Black guys did to those other innocent people, and they are just convenient targets?"
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Agreed, thank you. Looking back at my post, I was really struggling with communicating what I was getting at.
It's a common theme in history where uninvolved indivduals get lumped in with actions of their government or other groups, like our own Japanese internment camps, or the backlash against Muslims after 9/11.