COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE BY BRE PAYTON IN THE FEDERALIST
“Anti-Semitism At The
2016 Olympics Is Completely Out Of Control”
That is a completely misleading headline.
Anti-Semitism is a form of prejudice, actually a form of
superstition, not unlike fear of black cats.
Objecting to a country's atrocious and law-breaking behavior
is not prejudice.
Objecting to murder, theft, and abuse has nothing to do with
superstition.
Objecting to such behavior is about disturbing facts and
one’s ethical response to them.
It is quite tiresome to see this false equality perpetuated
yet again.
Of course, it is always indicative of an extreme and
thoughtless bias towards Israel in the media using it, and that prejudice is
the only one involved in all cases of labeling critics of Israel as
anti-Semitic.
