Israel/Palestine

Here's a post from yesterday's Mondoweiss:

It starts early: Netanyahu warns first graders Hamas is trying to kill them

http://mondoweiss.net/2015/09/netanyahu-graders-trying

Here are some of the comments:

"It’s shocking to me the world puts up with this horrible human being. And shocking that he is so stupid he can’t see that what he’s doing is basically the same as what the Nazis did."

"Israeli politicians use the word ‘peace’ so cheaply and in such a perverse and dishonest way that I nowadays feel a wave of irritation whenever I hear the word ‘shalom’ "

"This is why they have their segregated school system, because of the different messages they need to send to the young ‘uns. The Jews get the one articulated above while the Palestinians and other non-Jews are instructed to be obedient and grateful and not make trouble."

"If asked if I wanted north korea or israel as a neighbour it would be a rough choice to make."

"Now: sone London Zionists seem to have surpassed even the Israelians. They teach 3-year-olds that (all) Gentiles staged the genocide, and they (all) want to kill the Jews."

"This is the behavior we would expect of the leaders of the Lord’s Resistance Army in Africa, recruiting child soldiers."

Again, these are moderated comments. And none of these comments are challenged or criticized. It makes sense to a regular Mondoweiss reader that Israel ought to be compared (unfavorably) to North Korea and to the Lord's Resistance Army. And these sorts of comments are not outliers but are rather the general thrust of what you find there.

Look at this comment in particular:

"I nowadays feel a wave of irritation whenever I hear the word ‘shalom’ "

Is that not anti-semitic? If you agree that it is, can you not see how Mondoweiss guides its readership to such feelings? Or at least makes it a seem like a reasonable thing to post.

Just flip it around in your mind. Certainly there have been speeches of this nature by Palestinian leaders as well. Imagine a site presenting such a speech as evidence of Palestinians teaching their children to hate Israelis at a young age. And then imagine a set of comments like this but about Palestinians/Muslims.