Is there any solidarity movement with Kurds, Chechens, Tibetans, people who suffered more and have a much stronger claim for statehood. Any awareness of the plight of Bahai in Iran (to describe it suffice to say that they have it worse than Jews and Christians there). Does anybody even know of ethnic cleansing of Eastern Prussia, where 100% of Germans where removed from their historic land and replaced with Russians, who never lived there before. The numbers of refugees from Eastern Prussia was much greater than the number of Palestinian refugees, but the year was coincidentally the same 1948. And there are more, much more instance of relegious and ethnic persecution that, if based on objective criteria, deserve attention way before Palestinians, but not given any. There is no "solidarity" (except for the displaced compatriots) with any of them.
The term Palestinian was not even applied to Arabs until 1960th, but to the Jews living there. Even if you assume that Palestinian Arabs have a separate identity from the rest of the Levantine Arabs there is a state - Jordan: 4 times the size of Israel, 15 times the size of "occupied territories", just on the other bank of river Jordan. It has about the same ethnic composition as "Palestine": predominantly Palestinian Sunni Arabs, with sizable minority of Bedouins, some Druze, a handful of Christians. No Jews to harass though, what a petty.
As is often, and rightly said, criticism of Israel and its policies does not constitute antisemitism. However, it has become increasingly clear that antisemitism has permeated “Palestinian Solidarity” politics, and that very little has been done either to recognise or to challenge it.
by Lucy LipsThere are two consequences to this state of affairs. Antisemitism has been normalised in a section of Palestinian Solidarity advocacy, which now argues that combating antisemitism is “anti-Palestinian”. As a consequence, the impression has been created that pro-Palestinian activism is part and parcel of the promotion of antisemitism.
