Poisoning the Well: The False Equation of Anti-Zionism and Anti-Semitism

It´s a sad thing this equation of anti-zionism with anti-semitism, and these people who make this false equation are either totally ignorant, fanatics or ass lickers. Usually their "logic" is as twisted as that of real anti-semites. In many ways anti-semitism and this modern filo-semitism spring from the same fountain - from the unability to see Jews as normal human beings and the self-proclaimed Jewish state of Israel constrained by the same laws as other states. Where anti-semites have their Jewish conspiracies and other nonsense, the filo-semites have as ludicrous claims of Jewish superiority and special privileges of both Jews and Israel. Usually it seems that the claims of anti-semites have just been turned upside down. Where the Nazis believed that they had the right to murder innocent people because these people happened to be Jews, the filo-semites believe that the state of Israel and it´s representatives have the right to murder innocent people and steal their land because Israel calls itself a Jewish state.

Anyway, if one believes that the history of Jews should give Israel free hand to commit ethnic cleansings and other atrocities, then one also has to believe that because of the death of tens of millions of Chinese and Russians during the last century as a consequence of violence and oppression, China and Russia must have a free hand to do whatever they wish in Tibet, Xinjiang and Chechnya. Because if we believe that past sufferings give some group of people the right to make other people - innocent to their past suffering - to suffer, then we have to conclude that all other groups who have suffered must too have a right to commit atrocities.

The fact that Jews endured a genocide 60 years ago doesn´t give Israel any kind of special privilege to broke international laws or to forget basic human decency. Claiming otherwise is either pure stupidity or evilness. And when all sane people can see the truth about Israel and it´s actions, that it isn´t a poor, innocent little victim of a state, that it is a rogue state if anything, then it doesn´t do any good to Jews to make these kinds of claims of special rights of Jews and Israel. The mantle of a victim doesn´t fit Israel.