Not long after the Anti Defamation League (ADL) released its report on anti-Semitism, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu commented on anti-Semitism in the PA (Palestinian Authority) at the start of the opening of the weekly cabinet meeting on Sunday, 18 Iyar 5774.
“Last week, the Anti-Defamation League issued a global report in which it compared levels of anti-Semitism among adults in various places around the world. It seems that the place with the highest level of anti-Semitism is the Palestinian Authority, where 93% of adults hold anti-Semitic views.
“This is the result of the Palestinian Authority’s unceasing incitement, which distorts the image of the State of Israel and the Jewish People, as we have known in other places in our past. This finds expression in the fact that they hold parades to commemorate what they call the Nakba.
“They define the existence and establishment of the State of Israel as a disaster that must be corrected. This also finds expression in the increased activity that the Palestinians are allowing in Yehuda and Shomron for Hamas, which directly and openly calls for our destruction. Whoever sees the establishment of the State of Israel and its continued existence as a disaster does not want peace”.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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However when Palestinian terrorists get arrested, they seem to prefer Jewish lawyers. Given that most Israelis tend to think that Jews outside of Israel should support Israel simply because they are Jewish, is it a surprise that most Palestinians feel that most Jews do in fact support Israel.
And prejudice against someone you are at war with is not bigotry but is rather normal. Note how America in the 1940s rounded up Americans whose ancestors had lived in Japan, and how during World War I the anti-German campaign reached such absurdities that people refused to refer to “sauerkraut” as such since the name was Germanic, and called in “Liberty cabbage.”
Take out the part about hamas and your talking about chareidim