France has recorded nearly 1,250 antisemitic acts since the attack.
Among the long list of recent antisemitic acts, Paris prosecutors are investigating an incident on October 31, when buildings in the city and suburbs were daubed with dozens of Stars of David.
Anti-zionism isn’t the same as anti-semitism.
But the attention and criticism Israel attracts, while other conflicts and far worse governments are largely ignored, does make me raise an eyebrow.
If you treat someone differently because of their race, it’s hard to see how that’s not racist.
If you judge governments differently, based on the main ethnicity of the country they represent, that can also be deeply problematic.
I’m sure people mean well, but the road to hell is paved with good intentions. People should be more critical of the media they consume and do their research.
They are being judged harshly because of their repeated lack of empathy and their willingness to commit genocide in broad daylight, as if it was their right. They are being judged harshly because children corpses becomes their main export every few years. It’s getting even more media attention because our governments are funding said genocide. There’s also the David vs Goliath angle, where the Israel gov looks like a grown man mercilessly beating on a child.
To imply they are being framed as the bad guys simply because of racism is so far off the mark it’s laughable.
Since 2014, roughly 400,000 people have died in Yemen. 85,000 of those are Children. France, the UK and the US are involved in that war.
Last time I checked, the death toll for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is something like 40,000 since 1948.
And yet if you go on social or traditional media, you’d think it was the other way around.
Currently, Israel is killing civilians and children at a higher rate than Yemen. And yemens population is 16 times that of gaza.
The main thing separating both situations is one country has an army of staunch defender ready at a moments notice to hand wave away corpses.
Do you go into the comment section in articles about Yemen and blame the hate and indignation on racism as well? Why not?
I’ve never seen an article about Yemen discussed here on the fediverse.
Have you?
That’s because there is nothing to discuss. Everybody agrees its fucking terrible.
Why is there always a debate with Israel. What is debatable about making corpses out of children and keeping prison ghettos? Why are you defending them?
I’m not.
I’m pointing out the Israeli-Palestinian conflict gets a disproportionate amount of attention, compared to comparable or significantly worse conflicts.
Do they?
Is ignoring something a sign someone cares a lot about a subject?
It gets more attention because the west is directly arming and throwing bombs at Palestinians. Whereas Yemen is a proxy which is a lot more obscure, and the Saudi’s and Iranians are directly responsible for that one. And the west was condemning Saudi quite a lot lately because they supposedly needed to catch up in human rights.
Seemingly the west decided it was time to stoop down to Saudi’s level though.
I’m saying the conflict gets more attention because there is a side defending the undefendable.
Implying the criticism Israel recieved is because of racism is not only defending them but also rhetoric.
There is always a side defending the indefensible in a war or genocide. Eg. Xinjiang.
There are very good reasons to be critical of Israel.
The level of media attention and debate is however disproportionate, which is at best weird.
It’s not because of their race. It’s because of the geopolitical interest in Israel other countries have.
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I judge Israel more harshly than some other governments because quite frankly, they are meant to be the good guys. Similarly, I judge my own government harshly
Why are they supposed to be ‘the good guys’?
Why are other middle-eastern countries implicitly considered ‘the bad guys’?
What’s wrong with holding Israel to the same standards as other MENA countries, China, Russia, the US, the world?
Why do some victims matter more than others?
Why do some perpetrators get villified more than others?
This is an emotional reaction on my behalf, but various reasons - historically Israel was formed as a safe place forfor a horribly oppressed people. Historically, their government managed to maintain a separation between religion and the executive powers - the government weren’t religous radicals. Obviously this has been eroded substantially in recent years. Internally, there was decent equality between the sexes and it was a fairly liberal democracy. BUT yes - they treated the Palestinians horribly - I was pretty shocked by the dehuanisaing attitude I came across when I visited on business aboout 30 years ago.
Nothing - I would hope that Israel would hold itself to higher standards that some Islamist countries in terms of liberal society, compassion, adhering to basic human rights
They don’t
You’d have to ask the people doing the villifying.