Since when is dissent inherently equal to racism?
Recently I delivered a speech about Palestine to a packed auditorium at the College of Staten Island. Afterwards, one of the members of the audience asked why the UN or the US has not gotten involved in the Palestinian conflict by sending peace keeping orces. I responded with a well-based accusation against the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), stating that Washington is corrupt and awash in money of pro-Israeli interests. Immediately one of the other panelists, a well known professor, claimed my remark to be anti-Semitic in nature. Conveniently the academic also failed to factually challenge my accusation, probably because he knew my claim to be completely true.
Dissent has never been appreciated by any power structure, but few factions of our society have developed better ways of squashing it than the self-proclaimed Zionist defenders of democracy in the Middle East.
Recently I delivered a speech about Palestine to a packed auditorium at the College of Staten Island. Afterwards, one of the members of the audience asked why the UN or the US has not gotten involved in the Palestinian conflict by sending peace keeping forces. I responded with a well-based accusation against the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), stating that Washington is corrupt and awash in money of pro-Israeli interests. Immediately one of the other panelists, a well known professor, claimed my remark to be anti-Semitic in nature. Conveniently the academic also failed to factually challenge my accusation, probably because he knew my claim to be completely true.
Dissent has never been appreciated by any power structure, but few factions of our society have developed better ways of squashing it than the self-proclaimed Zionist defenders of democracy in the Middle East. These racist wolves have managed to cover themselves in sheep’s clothing of equality and freedom while cramming accusations of anti-Semitism down the throats of anyone who dares to question their dirty politics.
There is a well-known definition for the loaded, overused and unnecessarily complex term “anti-Semitism”. The definition is simple – racism, specifically against the Jews. Since the holocaust, which has somehow conveniently become a larger tragedy in our history than other no-less-tragic events where members of other races have been slaughtered or enslaved, charges of anti-Semitism have been routinely flung at anyone who dared to dissent against actions of Jewish peoples, especially in any matters related to Israel. The claim of anti-Semitism has sadly become little more than a noxious tool of those seeking to exploit the tragedy of the holocaust for their political ends.
There is nothing racist about questioning policies of a government of a self-proclaimed “Jewish state” anymore than there is something racist about questioning policies of any of its self-proclaimed “Arab” neighbors. To imply otherwise, is in fact, to become a racist by effectively claiming a specific race to be less human and infallible than others.
As for the accusation of anti-Semitism lobbed by the academic, well it really should be directed towards the source for my claim, which happens to be the Pro-Israeli AIPAC itself. Their own website, in fact, states that “Fortune magazine has consistently ranked AIPAC among America’s most powerful interest groups.“ But of course who would dare to accuse the Pro-Israeli lobby of anti-Semitism!
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