One of her readers asks, "Of all the challenges I face dealing with leftists, one of the most difficult is contending with their anti-Israel bias ... How can I deal with the growing, overt liberal animus toward Israel?"
Rogers indicates two key issues: ignorance and anti-Semitism. Check the post for her discussion of the facts about Israel. The facts speak for themselves. She correctly notes that when people refuse to accept the facts on Israel --- when they deny the evidence --- and when they demonize Israel exclusively, using double-standards to attack the existence of the Jewish state, that's anti-Semitism. And she concludes by reinforcing a point I made in my devastating exposé of the hate-Israel Occupy backers:
Unlike anti-Israeli sentiment based on ignorance of history ... you don’t stand a chance of persuading bigots by using facts, logic, or reasoning, because their attitudes are irrational, deep-seated, and often unconscious.
Education may help with the factually-ignorant. With the deep-seated anti-Semite, nothing will succeed.
When you encounter such a person, I recommend minimizing contact — indeed, if you can, cutting off contact entirely.
Life is too short to subject yourself to an unrepentant bigot, no matter how charming or attractive he or she may appear to be in other respects. I’m with Moses Seixas and George Washington on this: “give bigotry no sanction.” None.Progressives hate Jews. And the Occupy Wall Street movement has been driven throughout by anti-Zionism and exterminationist attacks on the Jews. And of course the very denials of these facts are themselves despicable and f-king reprehensible expressions of anti-Semitic bigotry. These people are the pestilence destroying democracy in the West.
