Now it's Daily Kos's turn.
A reporter for Swedish Radio News asked Israel's Ambassador to Sweden:
“Do the Jews themselves have any responsibility in the growing anti-Semitism that we see now?”
When he refused to dignify the question she poked and prodded until he shut her down:
“To ask the question of whether a woman contributes to being raped is irrelevant altogether. I don’t think there is a provocation that the Jews are doing. They just exist.”
The interview:
The radio station apologized. Hopefully, a lesson was learned.
But was it learned on Daily Kos?
I doubt it.
Every single post about anti-Semitism is greeted with announcements that it is "tangentially related to Israel," and therefore it is perfectly acceptable to turn every conversation about dead Jews into an I/P debate.
Will we learn the lesson to quickly absorbed in Sweden?
No. Of course not. Instead, this diary, and every diary that includes the word "Jew," will turn into a hotbed of I/P hatred, with people insisting that the very use of the word "anti-Semitism" is really an Israeli-government funded plot to shut people up. Because as everybody knows, there wasn't any anti-Semitism anywhere until 1948. Right?
Because the most important thing about anti-Semitism on Daily Kos is blaming Israel. The people who are anti-Semites are victims, they're the downtrodden Muslim immigrants to Europe whose hatred is understandable, right? It's not like there's a huge increase in anti-Semitism right here in the US. Oh, wait. There is:
This week, a Boise woman attacked her Jewish neighbor and stood on her neck until she said she believes in Jesus. Also this week, swastikas were spray painted on some 30 homes in Madison, Wisconsin.
In January, pro-Palestinian protestors stormed a New York City Council meeting that was discussing a resolution commemorating the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. And later in the month in California, two swastikas were found spray painted onto the wall and at the doorstep of the Jewish Alpha Epsilon Pi (AEPi) fraternity at UC Davis.
And now, I release this diary to the cauldron of I/P accusation and cross-accusation that any call for the same respect to Jews on Daily Kos that people offer to blacks, gays, women, or any there group that finds itself in the cross-hairs of hate.
Because some of you just can't help yourselves.