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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow, it's been busy since I stepped away to enjoy myself with friends last night. Doesn't anyone have holiday plans?

I'm the poster from yesterday who explained in a nuanced (thank you, PP, for acknowledging this!) way why I, as an American Jew, support Israel. It may shock you to learn that I am nauseated by the actions of the violent settlers and also by Ben-Gvir and his minions just as I am by the January 6th thugs and Trump. That doesn't negate my attachment to Israel and its people. [b]Do you demand of the Chinese people on this site that they renounce China due to its treatment of the Uyghurs? How about Russian posters--are they allowed to have warm feelings toward their homeland and their relatives or must they sever ties because of Putin? How about the Syrians here? Hungarians? You see how silly that all sounds?[/b]

Anyway, you can keep at each other's throats if you like. I'll be finishing my application for a volunteer program in the Holy Land later this year and enjoying a good Mary Gaitskill novel and some chocolate. Peace to everyone. [/quote]

DP.  Funny, I just wrote something similar.  It is funny, isn't it, how other countries receive a completely different reaction when they commit atrocities.  The hypocrisy is so blatant it's palpable.[/quote]

You have no idea. Try being a Chinese American professor these days. The FBI might come knocking on your door. There are trainings that you and your colleagues take about how China is evil. You are denied grant funding because one of your students goes to China and works there after he leaves your lab. You are racially profiled by the government. One is forced every day to acknowledge that some of this is justified (not the FBI shit - everything else) because the CCP is in fact a dangerous govt and we are right to be wary of how they use their diaspora. What do think the climate is like for Iranian students in the US?  When we can get to the place where Israel is treated at arms length and people are free to celebrate their connection with the land while US policy holds their govt accountable for crazy stuff, let’s talk. [/quote]

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