This article, if even half the quotes are correct, was a real eye, or rather mind opener. The man, stripped of his cleverness, is little more than an intellectual charlatan.

as being european and gentile too, i suggest you to read more news, hopefully analyses and good books on the topics of European anti-Semitism, Islam in general and on Zionism and Israel. as you didn’t get the point of Zizek on Christian Zionists, even though he is to the European acadmia, what Justin Bieber is to American pop-music, i suppose, you will need to start from the foundational history (Arthur Goldschmidt and Martin Gilbert both work on this level).
Europeans gulping their daily portion of hasbara and blah-blah are part of the problem in general.
cheers.

Like an alligator who can’t eat its meal without first dragging it into the water, you attempt to make my analogy vulnerable to your critique by changing its context entirely. My comparison was not between any part of “Jewish history” and any part of the history of “white people in America”, it was between commentators of all stripes/backgrounds who attempt to downplay human suffering, in specific cases, by relativizing it.

But I’m quite certain you wouldn’t want your grandparents or children to live the way most (if not all) Palestinians live today, whether or not you would consider it even worse for your loved ones to live in the Congo.

It’s bad enough that even small steps towards alleviating that suffering in real terms are blocked, at every turn, with the powers of an advanced technocracy (or two)… but the fact that you would deny the suffering the *dignity of basic recognition* (when such recognition would come at no real cost to yourself) is particularly pernicious… which is why your comment savors of the irrationality of self-exceptionalism and unexamined hatred.

Not that I suspect the same of Zizek. His problem (as I comment above) is different from yours.

Your analogy to the American South does not make sense. Certainly you’re aware that Jewish history leading up to and after the creation of Israel is significantly different than the history of white people in America? That the history of Islamist anti-semitism began before 1948?

All nationalism ought to be opposed equally.

They should have pushed him *out*….of the building.