Anti-Israel bigotry and bias Anti-Israel Protests

THE GAMES ANTI-ISRAEL ACTIVISTS PLAY: PROTESTING ISRAEL WON’T GET YOU KILLED…….

 

Like a drunk looking for his keys near the street lamp.

It’s the easiest place to look, looking around in the dark could get you hurt.

H/T: Vlad

The spoiled leftist radical

Op-ed: Provocative foreign activists exploit Israel’s tolerance and comfortable lifestyle

During my first year at the Hebrew University I worked at a typical Jerusalem bar – coffee and pastry in the morning, hamburgers for lunch and plenty of beer in the evening. The bar’s proximity to Jerusalem’s city center made it popular with the foreign peace activists who arrive in Jerusalem quite often. On numerous occasions I spoke to those who grabbed a drink after another day of protesting in Sheikh Jarrah or Bi’lin. Time after time I found myself wondering – why do they even bother coming here? How can a 20 year old Danish boy wake up one morning and tell his parents he’s flying to the Middle East?

A foreign reporter from Spain, who loves Israeli red wine, told me once how every foreign correspondent dreams of being stationed in Israel. “This is a foreign correspondent’s paradise!” she said. “Where else can you go to restaurant in a city such as Tel Aviv, grab a drink, or go dancing on Dizengoff Street, and sleep at a fancy hotel, when the only thing that separates you from your authentic ‘battle field’ report is a 45 minute drive into Jerusalem or Bil’in and Naalin?

Indeed, Israel holds a strange dissonance that we have developed throughout our years of living by the sword. The south is bombed, one million citizens sit in bomb shelters, but 15-20 kilometers away – everything is just the same. We have created a situation where little Israel consists of two parallel universes. The foreign activists fit perfectly into one and only one of those universes – the good, comfortable and quiet one.

The second reason was explained to me by two Swedish activists who loved the mixture of Arak and fresh grapefruit juice in their cocktails. I asked them once this one clichéd question that always comes to mind – “So why Israel of all places? Why not Syria? Egypt? Russia or China?” One of them put on a serious face. “Are you insane?” he asked me. “These are all extremely dangerous places!”

And that’s when it hit me.

These people know that nothing bad is going to happen to them here. The massive exposure of the high-ranked Israeli officer who

This is just a game

After all, in Egypt or Syria you would become another dead body on the street. In China or Russia you would find yourself imprisoned for the rest of your life if you even attempted to raise your hand against a local police officer or soldier.

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