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LostYonder wrote

I've always wondered why anti-semitism is constructed as an exceptional form of racism. While the Holocaust looms large in western guilt, slavery, Congo genocide, genocide and oppression of the Americas, Islamobophia and the destruction of Muslim country after country, and on and on the list goes of white liberal racism, all seem to be of less significance. Why do we put anti-semitism on a silver platter? Why can't we just say that white liberal enlightened west is inherently racist?

The degree to which critiques of Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Iran, etc. are couched in extremely racist, Islamophobic, Orientalist discourses is also extensively present - why are we not concerned with those discourses and only focus on Israel and the specter of anti-semitism? Should we also stop critiquing these other countries because of the racist nature of the discourse about them?

Further, isn't there an inherent contradiction here - racism is the building block, the foundation, of every nation-state. To pussy-foot around critiquing a particular nation-state for fear of being seen as racist is idiotic. It is the nation, and our nationalist mind-sets that are racist. Of course Israel doesn't have the right to exist! Neither does the US, France, China, or Burkina Faso - fuck them all...

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