Sunday, May 03, 2015

This is part of a series: another American revision of the defintion of anti-Semitism

"The complaint claims that Mahmud, AJAM's senior vice president of broadcast operations and technology, said that supporters of Israel "should die a fiery death in hell." He once tried to replace an Israeli cameraman with a lesser qualified Palestinian cameraman, the complaint alleges. "  Now there are two components to the charge of anti-Semitism here: 1) the first one deals with the wish by that person, Mahmud, that those who support Israel should die in hell.  But how and why is that anti-Semitic, when that wish could include people from different religions? It is as described non-referential to Jewish people? 2) why is favoring a Palestinian cameraman over an Israeli cameraman, qualifications aside, anti-Semitic?  Can someone help me out here?