Israel/Palestine

I despise antisemitism unconditionally...I just don't accept the right-wing notion that THAT prejudice must be combatted, but other prejudices are of lesser importance. Why shouldn't we, as human beings, simply be working for a world in which no one hates or kills anyone else?

I support Israel's right to exist-it's just that I don't see why a person MUST take that position just to prove they aren't an antisemite. It's not as though Zionism, in its current Likudnik form, is the only effective means to combat antisemitism or protect the world's Jewish communities from antisemitic violence-particularly since a significant number of those who insist that support of Zionism is the only way to be an opponent of antisemitism also insist that the ONLY way to be pro-Zionist is to be an unquestioning supporter of everything Netanyahu does...as if Netanyahu himself is somehow the representative of the entire Jewish population of the planet, or as if he does is itself the only way(or even an effective way) to combat antisemitism?

If you really, really want to defeat antisemitism, standing with Netanyahu is not the way to do that-especially since it's far from clear that Netanyahu himself even wants antisemitism to go away. If I were you, I would not trust him to want that-given how much his continued political survival depends on the survival of antisemitism. He's a man who's party and whose worldview is built solely on a program of fear...not the creation of a decent society for the country he governs, not the end of war and the demilitarization of that country, not reconciliation with the surrounding countries...but a perpetually escalating sense of fear. He can't LET Israel make peace and continue to get elected.