"Poor defenceless Palestinians", I love that image.
I have met poor defenceless people. One thing they usually have in common is that they do, in fact, have no weapons and do not, usually, call for genocide.
Where does it say that Israelis must be racists? In the case of Israel it's often enough simply to state that they do not necessarily have to be the good guys and suddenly they are the bad guys.
But you can try it out.
Dress up as an Arab and walk through a typical Israeli city. Try the same thing dressed up as a Jew in an Arab city. I think you will find out what racism is and whether Israelis are very capable of it.
Believing that Israeli can be racists is not enough. You will have to find out. Otherwise you have no point. There mere capability of imagining Israeli racism is no argument for or against anything. I can imagine that the Pope is secretly a Protestant, but that doesn't mean that he is or that we should take the possibility into account when discussing Papal decisions.
Now I had to justify myself to you for criticing anything at all, see how that works?
No, you had to justify why your "criticism" of people had so much to do with their Jewishness.
If I find a TV host annoying I would not typically mention his nationality, especially not if he is of a people who are constantly attacked by people worldwide who are already prejudiced against that nation.
And if I tried to find an example of where political correctness goes to far I would not choose a politician who compares Israel with Nazi-Germany just because it's Jewish.
Again, the comparison was no accident. And a non-Jewish country is not usually compared with Nazi-Germany just because it is involved in a war that kills a few hundred people.
If in some region in North-America violence was ripe and hundreds of thousands would die in civil wars and terror attacks and ALL the inhabitants in the region where white except in the one town where violence levels are lower by a factor of 100, and somebody would compare exactly that town with the Ku-Klux-Klan; would you not assume that
a ) the person making the comparison did not choose the Ku-Klux-Klan comparison by coincidence
b ) the person making the comparison ignored all the violence and instead focused on the most peaceful town for a reason
c ) the person is indeed most probably a racist bigot and that that explains not only why he picks on the one black town (for no violence-related reason) and chose the Ku-Klux-Klan for the comparison specifically BECAUSE of its relevance to anti-black racism?
If you believe that someone who is not an anti-Semite but merely worried about violence, would pick Israel as his target just out of coincidence, despite the fact that Israel is only ONE SIDE in the LEAST VIOLENT CONFLICT of the region, you are incredibly naive.
And if you believe that this person would then compare Israel with Nazi-Germany (and not with North-Vietnam or any other evil power), also out of coincidence, and not because of the fact that Israel is specifically a Jewish state, you live in a fantasy world.
And if finally you think that the fact that so many people do exactly that while ignoring the Algerian Civil War or the war in Darfur can in any way be reconciled with an alleged political untouchability of Jews in Germany, you are an idiot.
A non-anti-Semite would see no particular reason to choose the Arab-Israeli conflict over the Arab-African conflict (in Darfur), the Algerian Civil War, the Arab-Kurdish conflict, the Arab-Assyrian conflict, the Arab-Aramaean conflict, the Arab-Somali conflict; certainly not if his interest in the matter had to do with the actual violence and innocent deaths caused by the conflict.
And a non-anti-Semite would not compare Israel exactly to those people who wanted to exterminate all Jews and who, coincidentally, where during World War 2 the allies of the groups that became the PLO. Anyone who makes that comparison is either downplaying the crimes of the Nazis (who did NOT kill a few thousand Poles and Jews while defending Germany against a a genocide announced by Poland), or is somehow thinking that a few thousand victims killed by _Jews_ are somehow as bad as millions killed by non-Jews and that Jews are morally lower than others to begin with and have hence to commit smaller crimes to qualify for the Nazi-of-the-year award.
If you have sympathy with the "death to all Jews" crowd, that's your business. But don't go around claiming that despite the fact that Israel is CONSTANTLY criticised in Germany by almost everyone (whereas Israel's enemies are under no such scrutiny or can you even remember a demonstration against the Algerian Civil War?) Jews and Israel have some sort of shield in place which forces you to keep your mouth shut.
If you compare Israel with Nazi-Germany or defend politicians who do that you are downplaying the Holocaust. If you don't realise that a few thousand Arabs killed when THEY attacked Israel is not morally the same as the murder of six million people because they were Jewish, gay, or Roma, I cannot help you.
_IF_ the Holocaust had been about the killing of a few thousands Jews who tried to throw the Germans into the sea, we wouldn't even use it as an example of evil.
