Sorry, let me get the full quote and some more context:
In an interview published on Tuesday by the Israeli Basketball Association, Saar addressed the upcoming match with Ireland. “It’s known that they are quite antisemitic and it’s no secret, and maybe that’s why a strong game is expected,” she said. “We talk about it among ourselves. We know they don’t love us and we will leave everything on the field always and in this game especially.”
An official quote at a formal press interview that implicates the entire team.
Largely because of ireland's history of being brutalized in their own home, they have consistently had the strongest support for the palestinian cause in all of europe. The israeli player was almost certainly mischaracterising support for palestinians as antisemitism.
They refused to shake hands because one of the israeli players called them all antisemites in the pre game interviews.
Ireland has a long history of supporting the palestinian cause - consistently the highest in europe - which is what the player was intentionally mischaracterising as antisemitism.
I just can't agree with this line of reasoning. It's so close to all the violent white supremacists who whine about how unfair and damaging it is to be called racist.
Hatred against jews has uniquely strong roots in western cultures that merits a specific term - every right wing conspiracy theory is still just reheated blood libel and protocols of the elders of zion. It's deserving of a powerfully negative term.
If your opponent in an argument is antisemitic, you should win. Of course, anti-zionism is not antisemitism and criticism of the state of israel is not antisemitism.
Misuse of the term is something to be challenged through discourse, rather than scrapping the term, I think.
Antisemitism is understood to mean prejudice against Jews.
Semitic languages is the formal name for the branch of the Afroasiatic language family that includes modern Hebrew, Arabic, Amharic and ancient languages like Akkadian and Phoenician.
Semitic people isn't a term that anyone uses for real, but if they did it would refer to peoples who have traditionally spoke semitic languages.
It's frustrating that the term antisemitism refers to prejudice against only a specific subset of the peoples who would fall under the semitic label. But deliberately misunderstanding the term antisemitism is also quite frustrating.
At a restaurant in Taiwan they'd hired a guy to do slight of hand magic at tables. He was real good and quite charming. I was asking if he had a stage name so we could keep an eye out for him and he said no but his friends called him Mr Broccoli. Our Taiwanese friend laughed and I asked why Mr Broccoli? He'd made some bad choices when younger, he explained. Ok, I still don't get it. After we finish eating our Taiwanese friend explained that broccoli is slang for a diseased penis.
Irish solidarity with the Palestinian cause has been massive for decades.
That's almost certainly what the Israeli player was referring to with this malicious mischaracterization:
It’s known that they are quite antisemitic and it’s no secret, and maybe that’s why a strong game is expected
Something about being brutalized and treated as second class citizens in your own home by a militarily dominant power seems to generate empathy for the plight of Palestinians.
I love how much effort christians have put into explaining away things like it's easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for the rich to go to heaven. It's a mistranslation, you just need to unburden yourself, blah blah blah. When really it was quite a common idiom meaning impossible.
I dunno if 'you came closer to being helped then ever before' is a very persuasive argument, but without knowing where they were it's just like, an opinion man.
How about quoting how evil Biden is from the mouth of his biggest haters regarding equity.
Because biden's not evil, evil is silly concept and I prefer not to quote crazy people?
I'm honestly not sure what your point is. Are you trying to say biden's actually an evil socialist, or a that he's really doing the good work of socialism by stealth? Cause both of those arguments seem quite outlandish.
none matter as much as what Joe Biden has done to restore stability and decency to the presidency
I expect more from a president than just not being an incompetent criminal.
Obviously biden not being an incompetent criminal is a huge plus, but I'd be embarrassed to cheerlead someone who's greatest accomplishment is not being trump.
It's not inaccurate, just a little hyperbolic. I would say greater than 10:1 rather than a hundred fold. That's comparing the mismatch of civilian killings and assuming that at some level of mismatch democrat leadership would care.
It seems pretty accurate to suggest that democratic leadership looked at Palestinian civilian deaths on the one hand, and our foreign policy interests in the region and domestic politics on the other and made a choice.
A democratic pollster interviewed on NPR repeated a great quote from a focus group participant: "My hood didn't get any better under obama, or any worse under trump. What's biden got to do with me?"
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Sorry, let me get the full quote and some more context:
An official quote at a formal press interview that implicates the entire team.