If you persist in this argument, you run the risk of losing yr comment privileges (again).

In other words the term Israeli people is misleading because a Palestinian can hold Israeli citizenship but there is no Israeli nationality per se in Israeli law.

I discuss terminological issues in Makdisi Overlooks US Journalistic Nazification.

Any history of Jews there in Seattle carrying out violent, let alone murderous, attacks on Muslims

Actually, we don’t have to kill our Muslims here because we know Israel is doing such a good job of it in Lebanon and Palestine. Why be an amateur when there are professionals to do the job?

ignoring or diminishing the significance of ones on Jews

In yr warped, twisted view I diminished attacks on Jews because I refused to see them as part of a world wide conspiracy of Muslims against the Jewish people. But yr view of things, thank God, isn’t shared by many others in the world.

he was sentenced to 65 years in jail for his role in promoting terrorism. You can send him your well wishes at the Federal Correctional Institution, Seagoville

He’s appealing his conviction and I have every confidence that with a new Justice Dept. that will not prosecute these idiotic anti-Islamic cases that he will eventually win exoneration.

If you want to have a propaganda war or score debating pts go elsewhere. I’m severely tired by your sort of anti-Muslim ranting. The next comment of this sort will lose you yr comment privileges. My comment threads are not meant to prove that Islam is an evil Jew-hating religion. If that’s what you’re about there are other venues which you will find more supportive of that sort of racism.

A hijab-wearing woman carrying her child in a public place is verbally abused by a low-life sociopath, who waves a sheathed knife and threatens to physically attack her with it. He is promptly arrested by the police. For you, what needs to be said is, “Given the history of Muslim-Jewish violence in our local community, I believe it is imperative that the local Jewish community strongly denounce this Islamophobic act.” I know that Haq, a deranged Muslim, shot 6 Jewish women, killing one and seriously wounding 5 others there in Seattle not that long ago. Is that “the history of Muslim-Jewish violence in (your) local Jewish community” that you think makes it “imperative that the local Jewish community strongly denounce this Islamophobic act”? Any history of Jews there in Seattle carrying out violent, let alone murderous, attacks on Muslims, or has that history only been one of Jews as the victims?

I didn’t see any mention here of the student at Wesleyan who was stalked and murdered by a man who wrote about his desire to kill Jews and make a Jewish Columbine out of that school. You missed it, or you didn’t want to encourage Jews to claim victimhood or make a fuss about antisemitism?
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/09/nyregion/09wesleyan.html?_r=1&pagewanted=2

So many times you have spotlighted random attacks on Muslims in different countries, while ignoring or diminishing the significance of ones on Jews, e.g., Mumbai; US Holocaust Museum (cautioned Jews about playing the victim card and fussing over antimsemitism; gratuitous mention of Baruch Goldstein, but not of killing of a yeshiva student and serious wounding of two others in NYC a month later by a Lebanese immigrant); Halimi murder in France (sentenced this week); and many other examples.

Do see that you continue to allow that outspoken antisemite Joachim Martillo into what you see as the functional equivalent of your living room. And you permit him to link to his excrable website, something you don’t permit those of “nonprogressive” persuasion to do very often.

It all is very telling.

(BTW, two days after you reproached someone for calling CAIR’s Elashi a felon, he was sentenced to 65 years in jail for his role in promoting terrorism. You can send him your well wishes at the Federal Correctional Institution, Seagoville.)