Israel/Palestine

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I think that most of your argument is that you don't like Gideon Levy, so therefore he must be an anti-Semite. It would be easier for you if he actually harbored negative sentiments towards Jews instead of just being a vocal critic of Israel's racist policies.

Now, Mondoweiss is problematic, because the site isn't intentionally anti-Semitic, but its use of outside material with little vetting makes it possible for some really dubious material to be posted there. I don't have a good link to any of that dubious material right now, but maybe I'll have a look later. However, you'll have great difficulties proving that Philip Weiss himself is an anti-Semite, simply because he isn't one.

At the same time, if the Jerusalem Post introduced a no-tolerance policy against racism towards Arabs, it would mean an end to them publishing any opinion pieces at all... Or maybe not, as the Jerusalem Post seems to lack a functioning editorial board.

I really wish there was a functioning definition of anti-Semitism out there that everyone could agree on, so that there was an end to the idiotic conflation of Anti-Semitism with criticism of Israel like in the OP.



Edit: Interesting that you should mention Atzmon - his revisionist buddy Topham is in the news: http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/antisemites-website-should-be-closed/