Lester Golden
Nov 2, 2024

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I'd point to the deafening silence of your never expressed reservations about other conflicts:

Darfur, Yemen, Xinjiang, Yazidis, Syria, Turkish, Syrian an, Iraqi and Iranian Kurdistan, Baluchistan, Lebanon. If you apply higher standards of behavior to Israel than to Muslim states, that's double standards anti-semitism. As usual, it's "no Jews = no news."

Criticism of Israeli govt policy is welcome. Israelis do it all the time. But asking Israel to not engage in legitimate self-defense that any other state would do if faced with a similar exterminationist terrorist threat, is double standards anti-semitism according to the IHRA definition of anti-semitism accepted by over 40 countries: https://holocaustremembrance.com/resources/working-definition-antisemitism

"Applying double standards by requiring of it a behavior not expected or demanded of any other democratic nation."

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Lester Golden
Lester Golden

Written by Lester Golden

From Latvia & Porto I write to share learning from an academic&business life in 8 languages in 5 countries & seeing fascism die in Portugal&Spain in1974 & 1976.