I am reading a book at the moment that has rattled my cage and set me to some serious thinking
It is a book written by a Palestinian and is really about the Israel/Palestine ‘situation’
I do not know very much about the situation to be honest. I am shamefully ignorant in fact. But what I find so interesting is my struggle with maybe actually thinking Israel is wrong. Phosphorous bombs that set babies alight for days? Really – how is that not a war crime I wonder?
And yet it is very hard to conceive of being anti-Israel and by extension anti-Jews and by extension again anti-Semitic when the other option is to be anti-Arab and anti-Muslim
Being anti-Semitic is something no one wants to be called – I certainly do not. But anti-Muslim – well since 9/11 and the ‘with us or against us’ speech – anti-Muslim is kinda almost expected
Why is that okay? Why is anti-Semitism so not okay but anti-Muslim practically applauded? In what way are they different at their core? How is anti-any group more ‘okay’ than any other prejudice?
And how does any group who was massacred for who and what they are even contemplate doing the same to another group.
I think maybe I am just anti-human. We are a disgusting species.
