The main reason there are civilian deaths is because Palestinians literally fire them surrounded by children to increase the collateral damage if Israel responds. You can go online and watch videos of dude firing rockets and mortars surrounded by school children. I’m over worrying about the type of people who attempt…

The original article provided a pretty good one: One of the pro-Palestine people that Rabab Abdulhadi met on her trip was Sheikh Raed Salah, leader of the northern branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel, who has publicly accused the Jews of using children’s blood to bake their bread.

And what do you feel should happen to the Israeli citizens after their country is disbanded?

“Reasonable” is used a bit freely here. What should a “reasonable” person’s reaction be to multiple invasions to “drive the Jews into the sea,” decades of terrorism deliberately aimed at civilians, multiple rejections of land for peace deals that included an autonomous Palestinian state with Jerusalem as the…

If they were shooting IDF in the West Bank, you may have a point. That isn’t what they are doing when they fire rockets indiscriminately at population centers. It is nice how they fire from school buildings and hospitals to make sure the Israel response results in civilian casualties though. Nothing fucked up about…

I’ve met/known Iranian civilians. I agree. I’ve known some who went to Israel for healthcare. Just like I don’t want to be judged by Trump, I don’t judge Iranian civilians for their leaders. But their leaders encourage, sponsor and fund terrorism.

“SJW” was originally used to deride a certain kind of liberal, who would protest on Facebook and Twitter, and do pretty much nothing else. The warrior part was used ironically, because they were the farthest thing from actual warriors, doing almost nothing to help their cause except complaining on social media. They…

Well, if you’re talking about the people criticizing Israel I, when I’m feeling charitable, like to think it’s not so much anti-semitism as it is a sort of mass laziness. These are people who want to feel politically active and right-on but don’t actually want to make sacrifices in their lives.

Like not too recently I was having a conversation like this where all I wanted was for someone to admit that in a world with China, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, etc. it was understandable for Jewish people to look at the fact that the UN had passed more resolutions criticizing Israel than every other country…

In response to Palestinian rockets.

One easy way to tell whether someone is sincerely criticizing the Israeli government or just an antisemite is to ask him about Assad’s slaughter of Palestinian refugees in Syria. People honestly angry over Israeli policies in Palestine also condemn Assad, but people who excuse Assad’s crimes don’t actually care about…

I don’t even know if it’s necessarily a case of just isolated incidents of horrible bigotry. It seems like people who are generally big on the BDS movements can’t admit that there’s anything off whatsoever in the way their movement is structured.

The difference is, Israel has them and doesn’t use them. The ‘drive them into the sea’ folks would use them the moment they could.

“As to solutions: cut off all aid to Israel immediately until they agree to talks”

Yes! I had such similar experiences. I feel like there’s this missing space in activism for co-existence. There are some great co-existence initiatives, but they’re more program based.

Yes, this has been my experience. There is horrible bigotry involved in both pro- and anti-Israel, and very little willingness on either side to confront their own wrongdoings. That lack of willingness then taints activism. At this point, I only support and am only interested in co-existence initiatives.

Your sharply limited anecdotal experience must, necessarily and logically, be true for all experiences.

However, so much of what I hear calls for what is essentially the complete dismantling of Israel as a country, that it’s difficult to have any kind of nuanced conversation.

This article is incredibly selectively (and therefore, poorly) researched and cited. It ignores the very real concerns about use of “Zionism” as a a dog-whistle for antisemitism, which is what the Senate bill aimed to combat. It also fails to note that the online and job harassment discussed is used by some groups on…

I just don’t have the heart to read this whole article, it’s too painful. All I want to say that as a Jewish woman with Israeli family who believes in peace, human rights, and a two state solution, it can be just too much to try to stand between two pillars who are intent on crushing you, and each other, into the…