Anti-semitism is evil and should be eradicated. So is Islamophobia. Both of these are out in full force and neither is justified no matter how you feel about Israel and Palestine. It doesn’t help that you have politicians feeding into these.

I’m strongly opposed to Zionism in its present form, but doesn’t mean anyone can cross the line into anti-Semitism. Also, criticizing Zionism is NOT anti-semitism no matter how often the far right tries to claim otherwise.

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 funny.

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.

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?

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?