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Norm Finkelstein argues back that anti-Semitism is defined as an "irrational" hatred of Jews, but that the resentment is rational.
Hasan argues that no people are monolithic, and the scapegoating of Jews is a common tactic. That people understand that when Tucker Carlson says America has "demographic concerns", that is white supremacy.
He says that if Jews were monolithic there would not be such a generational divide on Zionism and billions spent to maintain its indoctrination.
Finkelstein says he would not tell someone who has experienced the Holocaust that they should not hate Germans. And that he would not argue with a Palestinian who feels the same way about Jews.
Norm cites that 95% of Israeli citizens agree with the force used against Gaza, and that its citizen army that represents its population carried out mass starvation as a method of war.
Hasan Piker says he agrees with the facts, but he has a more optimistic perspective in terms of changing people's minds on conflating Judaism with Zionism.
Aside from these, there's another argument I've heard Finkelstein make, equally valid. He's explained that anti-Semitism as exists in most places it's found, isn't the sort of bigotry that anti-black racism in the US and such are in its effect.
Even disregarding all the conflation of anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism, the vast majority of instances touted by Zionists are someone saying or implying something against Jewish people. The lists are full of microagressions, not people being discriminated against for having Jewish-sounding names in applications, not their communities being overpoliced and undervalued to keep them down, and certainly not people being rounded up on the thousands on suspicion of being Jewish, on the basis of some visual characteristic, to be assaulted, brutalised, mistreated, raped, deported, or even murdered.
I'm convinced, due to the actions of the Zionist entity, the rabid behaviour of its people and the inaction/support of the west, the lingering resentment in the populations is something Communists will have to deal with after the Zionist entity and its patron hegemon fall. Nevertheless, I cannot emphasise how minor this concern is today, considering an ongoing genocide against Palestinians and all other crimes imperialism commits every day. This issue deserves to be raised once every ten thousand times the question "What's to be done to stop this genocide?' and its ancillaries are asked.