Comment by jameshilliard
19 hours ago
> "And so they [Germans] have accepted the Jews, but not all of them. Especially those who have learnt that to survive in this world they need to be superior. No longer a fragile minority. No longer diasporic people. No longer the People of the Book. But the Chosen People. ‘Chosen to dominate?’ One may wonder looking at what Israel has become. But Israel does not represent all the Jews."
This quote matches up reasonably well with the antisemitic world domination conspiracy theory.
> So she was talking about Israeli Jews, not Jews in general.
That doesn't make it much better, so you agree she's clearly targeting Israeli's at least in part due to them being Jewish?
> That's the whole point of her post. It's ironic that in fact the ADL is being antisemitic here by equating Judaism with Israel.
These antisemitic conspiracy theories predate Israel being a country. Swapping out Jews for Israeli Jews or Jews that support the existence of Israel in statements doesn't negate the statement being fundamentally rooted in an antisemitic conspiracy theory.
> That doesn't make it much better, so you agree she's clearly targeting Israeli's at least in part due to them being Jewish?
I disagree, I think you're missing her point if you get that impression. That said, she does seem a bit anti-German though.
> These antisemitic conspiracy theories predate Israel being a country. Swapping out Jews for Israeli Jews or Jews that support the existence of Israel in statements doesn't negate the statement being fundamentally rooted in an antisemitic conspiracy theory.
Which part of the above quote is a conspiracy theory? There do in fact exist jews which consider themselves the chosen people, and who want to dominate Palestine Lebanon Iran Syria etc, and who consider themselves superior to others (e.g. saying Palestinians aren't even people), including many in israel's current government.
Indeed, many of their words and actions are evidence for an ongoing international case against israel for genocide. I guess there's a globe-wide conspiracy theory against israel for doing nothing wrong?
Given that proper context, the quote reads to me as defending jews like me against the condemnation that israel regularly rightly receives for its behavior.
Also, please stop doing this:
> Swapping out Jews for Israeli Jews or Jews that support the existence of Israel in statements
When you take a criticism of the behavior of a limited group of people, and try to extrapolate it to all jews based on their identity, you are propagating a common antisemetic trope, and engaging in collective blame spreading, which is hurtful. Jewish people have agency, we don't just do whatever israel tells us to do.