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jacobmg

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    Comment #2160114

    >> I have never claimed that whole of Israel has systemized racism, you are putting words into my mouth. I would have more respect for you if you said for instance yes we have thes…

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    Comment #2159774

    Right, you want it to be easy to just assume that an entire country has rampant racism because of some general perception of the middle east whereas I'm asking for evidence that an…

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    Comment #2159759

    You are just reciting the typical myths about racism/Israel. For example you mentioned road use discrimination, instead of that being any sort of discrimination based on race/relig…

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    Comment #2159746

    You are implying that Israelis vote based strongly on race. This is entirely untrue. There are Jews of many different races in the Israeli government. I suppose every country that …

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    Comment #2158742

    >> I think there is a double standard that is being applied and it is rationalized and back-propagated from a knee-jerk reaction to a perceived criticism of Israel. >> All of the s…

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    Comment #2158449

    You really are mistaken. The hearsay of some hackernews posts amounts to zero evidence, while you can verify the legal equality of races in Israel in any decent book. Unless of cou…

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    Comment #2158419

    >Segregation is a real fact in every day Israeli life Are you referring to the fact that Jewish and Arab populations live mostly separate towns and cities? This isn't segregation, …

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    Comment #2158407

    I said all races are equal under law, the Law of Return applies to ones religious status, and anyone can convert to Judaism. Besides immigration criteria does not effect discrimina…

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    Comment #2157418

    No, everything claimed is easy to verify. Races aren't segregated, racism isn't taught (as in, it's not part of the curriculum.) All races are equal under Israeli law. Your educati…

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    Comment #2157263

    It is easy to draw intuitive statistical conclusions in a small town ; you bet if there weren't usually race based violence in a small town, that if you saw 4-5 incidents in a shor…

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    Comment #2157212

    PBS is a better fit to be compared to BBC. You can find low-brow entertainment based news in the UK and every other country with a free media. It's not like you can't access qualit…

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    Comment #2157199

    >Do you think Americans are that stupid that they won't see antisemitism? Do you think we're little children who can't think for ourselves? Well that's the thing, perhaps those who…

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    Comment #2157195

    Not all criticism of Israel is anti-Jewish, but some can be. Just because someone claims an anti-Israel group is anti-Jewish, don't assume that they would whitewash all Israel crit…

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    Comment #2157143

    Just an American here, but there is no racial segregation or systematized racism of any kind in Israel. 'Racism' and 'Apartheid' are just thrown around carelessly at Israel by some…

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    Comment #2157025

    > Are you implying that anyone criticizing Israel should be automatically discarded on the basis of intolerance? You don't seem to have listened. It wasn't about that one article, …

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    Comment #2156935

    Here's why: http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/ "Israel: The ugly truth", "A week of racism in Israel", "An education in inequality" Notice something out of proportion here? I kn…

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    Comment #2030273

    The latter or incompetence or they just don't care enough about it to really investigate a viable solution (most probable.) Their technical reasons are invalid after all, so someth…

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    Comment #2029881

    Perhaps this explains one of the most ridiculous posts I've seen from a corporate blog in a long time? http://blog.netflix.com/2009/06/closed-captions-and-subtitle... Essentially t…

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    Comment #2020321

    > blockades are stifling, putting fences through people's land is stifling. Are you really prepared to argue otherwise? I never argued otherwise. It can be argued that Israel doesn…

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    Comment #2020288

    Because you side against the blockade because you either don't believe the Israeli reasons why the risk of not blockading are serious enough to warrant something as harsh as a bloc…

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    Comment #2020261

    He didn't say the word evil, but he characterized Israel as evil, which is just as bad. >he stated that Israel has taken actions to stifle Palestine. That is an objective fact... F…

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    Comment #2020172

    That is trolling. All you're doing is reciting your standard "Israel is evil occupier" routine typical of someone of a certain political bias. No sources or added incite. It is how…

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