Likewise the only reason masses of westerners join mass protests against Israel, and not say Sudan or Syria or Saudi Arabia or Hamas, is because these people hate the Jews in particular. They dont care about Palestinians. It's antisemitism and the protestors and apologists here should know precisely the answer to the question of what you'd have done had you been in Germany during the Holocaust.
To an extent, indeed. I didn't explicitly say this, but it was part of my thoughts. The kneejerk reactionaries that are against the Anglocentricness of Earth have also latched on due to the hyperfixation on that sort of thing.
Going back to the Indigenous American analogy from a few pages back, however. Part of why it took so long for white men to NOT see Indigenous Americans as "savages" is because of the fact that extremist Natives did indiscriminately attack white people, regardless of whether they were a direct cause of Native plight or not. And likewise, people were quick to discount the black Civil Rights movement in America, because of the attention that the violent fringe of the movement was receiving. Don't throw out the baby with the bathwater here. Palestinians IN GENERAL definitely have been unfairly discriminated against for a long time now.
"I don't favor violence. If we could bring about recognition and respect of our people by peaceful means, well and good. Everybody would like to reach his objectives peacefully. But I'm also a realist. The only people in this country who are asked to be nonviolent are black people.". - Malcom X
"If violence is wrong in America, violence is wrong abroad. If it is wrong to be violent defending black women and black children and black babies and black men, then it is wrong for America to draft us and make us violent abroad in defense of her. And if it is right for America to draft us, and teach us how to be violent in defense of her, then it is right for you and me to do whatever is necessary to defend our own people right here in this country." - Malcom X
"I myself would go for nonviolence if it was consistent, if everybody was going to be nonviolent all the time. I'd say, okay, let's get with it, we'll all be nonviolent. But I don't go along with any kind of nonviolence unless everybody's going to be nonviolent. If they make the Ku Klux Klan nonviolent, I'll be nonviolent. If they make the White Citizens Council nonviolent, I'll be nonviolent. But as long as you've got somebody else not being nonviolent, I don't want anybody coming to me talking any nonviolent talk." - Malcom X
"I don't mean go out and get violent; but at the same time you should never be nonviolent unless you run into some nonviolence. I'm nonviolent with those who are nonviolent with me. But when you drop that violence on me, then you've made me go insane, and I'm not responsible for what I do." - Malcom X
"They call me 'a teacher, a fomenter of violence.' I would say point blank, 'That is a lie. I'm not for wanton violence, I'm for justice.'" - Malcom X
Edit -- clearly I don't ultimately believe in Malcom X's words here, since I truly believe in those nonviolent decrees I posted above from the Sermon on the Mount. Just trying to demonstrate, tho, how someone could easily slip into this mindset. Malcom X was a brilliant man.
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