Is singling out Israel for boycotts anti-Semitic?

[King_David]

A paradigmatic characteristic of all bigotry is to take a fault that is widespread among all cultures, races, religions and nationalities and to attribute it singularly to one group.

For example: “Blacks are violent.” “Jews are cheap.” “Asians are sly.” “Gays are pedophiles.” “Women are irrational.” “Romanies (gypsies) cheat.”

The truth, of course, is that all groups have some among them with these negative characteristics.

The bigots who make these claims correctly point to the fact that some members of these groups display the negative characteristics attributed to the groups as a whole.

But the bigotry consists of singling out any such group for unique condemnation on the basis of these widespread faults without acknowledging that members of other groups have them as well, sometimes in greater proportion than the group that is singled out.


http://www.ejpress.org/article/69482

[Deep13]

1. Nope.

Based on official behavior, not religion or ethnicity.

[dipsydoodle]

2. No

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[TexasProgresive]

3. Opposing a country for its policies

doesn't mean you hate the people for their ethnicity.

[azurnoir]

4. Was singling out South Africa anti-white?

but do keep up the good work, promise?

[King_David]

5. What is a 'good work,promise'?

[azurnoir]

7. why the good work your doing here of course

couldn't ask for more

BTW you added dit-dits where there were none, why?

[King_David]

11. Was quoting you because they were your words

That's why I had quotation marks, if that's what "dits" meant.

[azurnoir]

12. except you did not add quotion marks "q" you added these 'dit' 'dit'

which generally signify something else

[Ernesto]

6. Check the definition of the term............

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semitic

[msongs]

8. Israel is a politcal entity. it is not semitic or otherwise nt

[polly7]

9. Not at all. nt

[WatermelonRat]

10. In broad terms, I'd say yes.

The concept of boycotting Israel but not countries with far worse records is anti-semitic.

Individually, however, I'd say not necessarily. Given how much media coverage the issue attracts and how much more prominent the conflict is in the collective consciousness of our society, a bit of tunnel vision is understandable, if not necessarily laudable.