@MicahLasher@electprogress@PramilaJayapal oh gosh she's awful. I spoke with you in the street and told you why I wasn't voting for you in the primary. I hope you remember to "turn down the temperature" like you said you would, if you win.
George Orwell, in April 1945, was discussing how otherwise intelligent, seemingly reasonable people could accept demonstrably false accusations about Jews.
He described people who insisted that their hostility toward Jews was based on objective observations rather than prejudice.
He then wrote:
“Yet one of the marks of antisemitism is an ability to believe stories that could not possibly be true.”
Orwell followed this with an example involving a deadly crowd crush at a London Underground station in 1942 and the false stories circulated about Jewish responsibility.
Haviv Rettig Gur, whatever you think of him and his views, hosted me twice on his podcast to speak about Palestinian perspective and views, no matter how divergent and different mine are. He did not condition his hosting upon me appearing next to other Palestinians who disagree with me or agreed with him, or even other Israelis; he did not set this up as a debate, but as a conversation and a discussion that was elastic and allowed for mutual learning and engagement, not "gotchu" moments, even though we strongly disagreed on a variety of subjects.
On the other hand, Mr. Mehdi Hasan would not entertain talking to me after he blocked me for two years on social media unless I debated another Palestinian who disagreed with me on his platform, "Zeteo News," with him as the moderator of said debate. He was not interested in a one-on-one conversation with me as he has done with several other guests of his. You make of that what you will but it is absolutely the case that Zionists can often be exponentially easier to engage and speak with than anti-Zionists and the oracles of the “pro-Palestine” industrial complex, particularly when it comes to embracing new and diverse Palestinian perspectives outside of the militantly-enforced orthodoxies, for the anti-Israel crowd is almost always interested in making a point, never actually making a difference.
@mehdirhasan don't be intimidated Mehdi, he isn't full of shit, that's why he's more popular than you. just try being more honest and I think your stock will go up.