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You're conflating Israel and Judaism. Same questions to you, why does Hamas exist idealogically and practically? Look in to those and you may find your answer. If you don't think Hamas exists as a response to decade of oppression but instead as some sort of innate Islamic radicalism then I'm afraid you're dancing with islamophobia
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I'm not conflating the two - my exact point is that you are criticising Israel and don't see that as anti-semitic, but are accusing those who criticise Hamas as islamophobic.
In either case there's a distinction between the race and the organisation doing bad things, in both cases they expressly cite religion as part of their motivation and charter, and in both cases you can look at history for causes as to why they've got their (Israel as a reaction to longstanding persecution of Jews, Hamas as a response to the plight of Arabs in Palestine).
You could say "if you don't think the actions of Israel are a result of a valid fear of persecution following centuries of anti-Semitism but instead as some sort of innate colonialism then I'm afraid you're dancing with anti-Semitism"
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'Dancing with Islamophobia' wut
Ridiculous to deny that religious fundamentalism plays a huge part here. On both sides I might add.
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So to be clear - when you say that this is all Israel's fault and reject any attempt to apply even a little bit of nuance - that's not anti-semitic; but you think others are "assuming the worst of" the Palestinian people (which I don't think anyone has - they may have blamed Hamas though) and that's islamophobic?
On the same logic as you use, you're anti-Semitic. I doubt that's actually true, but then I don't think the other posters are islamophobic either