@Pull Up the Roots you got some serious explaining to do! 


Because he doesn’t actually believe what he is arguing. It’s weird.Edit: I don't understand the instinct to try to catch internet posters in a gotcha moment vs interrogating the kind of obvious hypocrisy of the CBC.
And also antisemeticConflating criticism of Israel and their actions as criticism of all Jews is what has stifled legitimate criticism of what's been happening for decades.
The core point of your argument is that "Israel causes antisemitism." You're blaming people for their own hate, and that is sloppy.
You're shifting the responsibility away from the people choosing to be antisemitic, especially when you say "Israel single-handedly has caused the rise in antisemitism."
You're also unintentionally absolving people like Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, Nick Fuentes, and the social media engine at the center of it all that's driving a lot of the narrative. That is dangerous.
This is Protocols of the Elders of Zion babble. You have completely lost the plot.
That's what you *think* you're doing but the way you word it is doing more than that. Look at the wording *you* used.
I'm not reaching. That is what you're doing.
You're basically saying: antisemites are reacting to something external, not consciously choosing hatred. You have removed their agency. You are treating them like passive actors. You are effectively absolving them of any responsibility for their conscious choice to hate and spread hate.
Yep, I'm a zionist because I don't invoke racist tropes about Jews. Social media really did a number on some of you.
These are the post I made on this subject. Quote or highlight the parts doing what you claim. If you can't do that, admit you were lying and apologize.There's a critical distinction between political critique and prejudice. It's reasonable to critique Israel's violent, genocidal behavior, Zionism as a supremacist ideology, and the structures empowering it. It's reasonable to analyze how political actors exploit narratives about Jews in ways that can fuel antisemitism. But it's not reasonable to claim "Israel single-handedly has caused the rise in antisemitism." That is excusing far-right ethnonationalism, something that has been consistent and historically rooted in antisemitism.
Groups like Patriot Front, the groyper movement, and so on, and events like "Unite the Right," didn't emerge as a response to Israel. Neither did conspiracy theories like the "Great Replacement" or animals like Robert Gregory Bowers. These are rooted in longstanding far-right ideologies that predate and operate independently of Israel, repackaged for today.