On Sunday, dozens of people gathered near the Aish Hatorah synagogue in Thornhill, Ont., to protest an event that organizers say was aimed at helping people in the Toronto area buy property in Israel. They were met with pro-Israeli counterprotestors and Jewish leaders took issue with the Sunday protest taking place outside a synagogue.
But Pro-Palestinian protestors say companies associated with the event market property in the West Bank, where over two million Palestinians live under Israel’s military occupation, according to the United Nations (UN).
The UN, alongside Canada, consider Israeli settlements in the occupied territories to be in violation of international convention, with the federal government saying they “constitute a serious obstacle to achieving a comprehensive, just and lasting peace.”
“There was no sales for anything in the West Bank, anything on disputed territory,” she said, noting the projects on offer were being built on “existing” and “established” areas.
People using the anti-semitic jibe when Israel is criticized are invariably Racists.
They’re both they’re presuming that “all Jews are the same” (a pure racist way of thinking) hence they all agree to be represented by Israel and with its acts (even though plenty of people who are Jews have said otherwise, so this prejudiced presumption goes against easilly found evidence), and hence criticism of Israel is critcism of the Jewish religion (i.e. anti-semitism) and because they’re demanding that acts should be judged differently depending on the religion of those who commit them as should the response of others: they’re demanding that people refrain from critizing things like land theft, murder and, more recently genocice, when such act are commited by Jews.
Non-racists just look at the actions of a group (specifically the successive governments of the nation of Israel and wrll as a significant portion of its civil society) and judge them on the merites and demerits of said acts quite independently of the etnicity of the perpetrators and victims.