So criticizing the State of Israel or condemning anti-Arab racism amongst Jewish Israelis is now "anti-Semitism"? Do you even see the racist, bigoted irony in your speculating about the writer being an Arab-American, or a "self-hating" Jew, or Brit?
The post referred to "racist Jewish Scientologists" due to the fact that Jaffa is an Arab neighborhood and there's been reports of friction between the Arab residents and the local Scientology staffers who are all Jewish. Many of the Arabs in that neighborhood are also Christian, and Christian graves have been desecrated by Jewish hooligans, which has all been reported by the Israeli media and confirmed by the police.
The post also showed a photo of Jewish Israeli Scientology staffers mocking & disrespecting Christianity -- you may think that's alright, but Christians would find such behavior to be bigoted and disrespectful. Given that Arab Christians suffer extreme hardships & discrimination in Israel, which is legally & officially a Jewish state (thus non-Jews are legally second-class citizens) and gangs of Jewish hooligans, often ultra-orthodox youth, harass, assault, and commit various hate crimes against Arab Christians & Muslims (all of it confirmed by the media and police there), there is nothing racist or anti-Semitic about pointing these things out.
Perhaps you should study up on the situation of Palestinians & Israeli Arabs -- the UN, every single member country of the EU, and most NGOs like Amnesty & Reporters Without Borders have all condemned Israel for their racist atrocities against Palestinians & their illegal razing of Palestinian lands for Israeli settlers.
There are plenty of Israeli Jews & Jews in the diaspora who also condemn the actions of the Israeli government and the anti-Arab racism in Israeli society. Nelson Mandela didn't refer to Israel as an "apartheid" state just for kicks.
Oh, but I guess even Mandela is a racist anti-Semite. And I suppose every Jew who criticizes Israel & condemns racism in Israeli society are also all self-hating Jews.
Thanks for that bit of Orwellian irony.
Perhaps you should not assume so much from an offhand comment and a tentative observation.
I have not seen a reference to Israelis on that site that does not begin with the word "Jewish", kinda like a lot of people from where I come not being able to say the word "Yankee" without the word "damn" in front of it. It sounds like an epithet. That's a pattern. One that points to Arab-American or British origin, based on common usage in those groups.
Assuming that these Scilons are trying to offend Arabs rather than Christians in general is a pretty big step, but maybe they are right. And while I think it's a dick move, a lot of Scilons think what we do here is a series of giant dick moves. no one has the right not to be offended in the public sphere.
Even if they are correct that this is a shot at Arabs and not Christians, the rabidity and repetition their posts points to someone with an emotional iron in the fire. Language usage in the site points to at least one (I suspect there is are more than one poster) being British. I've run into a fair amount of old-School anti-semitism from Brits disguised as anti-Israeli rhetoric. Americans assume "Israeli" means Jewish, and use the word "Arab-Israeli" to indicate that minority, and most Jews here, self hating or not, tend to make the same assumption. The kind of use of the word "Jewish" almost as an epithet in those posts, leads me to believe that the poster, if Jewish, has a lot of emotion in the game, hence, self-hating.
That is NOT to say that anyone who criticises Israel, Haredi Israelis in particular (I can't
stand their religion), is wrong, or if Jewish, self hating. But go back and read those posts and the undercurrent of venom there.
Coupled with this OP's "Zionist" comments, it might or might not be part of a larger pattern. Two points always make a line, and one must be careful. That's the kind of thinking that got a lot of people into SCN in the first place. (The twisting of that natural curiosity impulse, and then shutting it down to keep it from going on to criticize the cult, was a main part of El Wrong's genius). But two points are also enough to make you say hmmm and investigte further, hence the tone of my question to Mike.
Sounds like you have an emotional iron in this fire, too, no?