Re:Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and Holocaust Sur...
by tanderson92 on Saturday July 02, 2016 @09:53PM
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Thanks for this. It's a good explanation which addresses the point I was thinking about. You raise some good points which I'll have to think more about.
Just quickly, I am thinking that the fact there are Palestinians alive today who have been displaced renders the question much more urgent and potent than the problematic elimination of Native Americans >100 years ago, for example.
Typically I don't like to engage in political discussion about the middle east because most people have no clue about the history of the region and interpret what's going on over there through some lens with a very shallow depth of field. That tends to apply to Israelis as well. That said I think antisemitism is still a concern that we have to speak out about and definitely some modern incarnations of antisemitism are directed towards Israel. That doesn't mean that any criticism of Israel is antisemitic but it's just something that makes things more complicated.