Thursday, December 04, 2008

"Not Necessarily Antisemitic"

few, if any, Pakistani militants have been known until now specifically to target Israelis. I say, Israelis rather than Jews because the single surviving terrorist noted that they chose Chabad House to avenge the suffering of the Palestinians. Therefore, the attack was anti-Israeli, though not necessarily antisemitic.
Richard Silverstein at Comment is Free doesn't think that targeting a Jewish Community Centre for a massacre is antisemitic.

2 comments:

Mark Wadsworth said...

Well quite! As the man explains, it wasn't actually Israel that made a mess of partitioning India, inadvertently drawing the line to the west rather than the east of Kashmir. Or something.

Letters From A Tory said...

As long as they massacre people from other religious groups as well, I suppose it counts as 'equality'. The logic looks fine to me!