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It's been feeling like there's been a general rise in anti-Semitism in the US lately. Trump, Kanye, Kyrie Irving. And now this swing in the other direction, or whatever you want to call it.
WTF.
According to Shlom Asiraich’s promotional pamphlets, its beneficiaries include Yigal Amir, who assassinated Rabin in 1995; Amiram Ben-Uliel, convicted in the 2015 murder of a Palestinian baby and his parents in an arson attack; and Yosef Chaim Ben David, convicted of abducting and killing a 16-year-old Palestinian boy in Jerusalem in 2014. The group also assists an extremist ultra-Orthodox man who fatally stabbed a 16-year-old Israeli girl at Jerusalem’s gay pride parade in 2015

What a nice bunch of people >

They're unhinged enough that the AP is describing them as "extremist Israelis". >

I mean what other words would you use to describe Israelis who believe God has decreed they live within a certain geographically defined area and will forcibly expell anyone else living there >

Oh, it's a fairly mild description if anything. It's just that I can't think of another time the straight press has talked about any Israeli in those terms. >

Huh? Even Israeli press talks about them in such terms. >

They don't get called antisemitic and hit with lawsuits either. >

As opposed to… what?
If you’ve read the article you’d see all these murderers were convicted in Israel by an Israeli court.
I don’t see anyone getting called antisemitic for being against these murderers. >

"It also comes against the backdrop of a new, far-right government inIsrael led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, where ultranationalistsand extremist lawmakers have gained unprecedented power."
Once the ultra-nationalists gain power, it can be very hard to get them out of power again. We've seen that happen before. >

How is he not in jail, let alone prime minister AGAIN >

Berlusconi keeps doing that too. I think some people take pride in electing PoS >

You’re not wrong, but what keeps getting Netanyahu’s party elected is very weak opposition. It’s his more extreme and crazy right wing partners that get “spite votes” as you describe, from people with a similar agenda to many Trump voters… “if we don’t vote for our own crazies, these socialists/LGBT/globalists/agnostics will continue to influence our country!”. >

I kind of wish I was a politician... Just so I could take their money, pretend to listen, and do my own thing. >

That's not how it works. If they don't get a return on their investment, they invest elsewhere. >

They want the time to be heard. That is what they buy.
Even if they decide not to try to buy my influence, I still wasted their resources for a bit >


An Israeli group raising funds for Jewish extremists convicted in some of the country’s most notorious hate crimes

Yikes. I mean, imagine an equivalent group raising funds to help people like Timothy McVeigh, Matthew Sheppard's killers, etc. >

This is what BDS is for. Boycott, Divestment, Sanction. Get Israel out of your life and the AIPAC bagman out of your representative's office. >

BDS doesn't actually call for a general boycott of all Israeli goods and services.
From its website:
BOYCOTTS involve withdrawing support from [...] and from all Israeli and international companies engaged in violations of Palestinian human rights.
A tech company in Tel-Aviv that doesn't fall under this category, unless you can show that its products are being used to violate Palestinian human rights. >

I think that's a distinction easily missed. Thank you for pointing it out. I can see some making the argument that any Israeli company is inherently supportive of Palestinian oppression, but I'm not sure that I could support that. >

The organizers of BDS themselves don't make this argument though... >

There’s always been extreme Israel groups in the US. It’s s damn shame the US can’t get a more unbiased view of the region for decades. ( said as someone who lived here and noticed the huge bias in media coverage )