@BenRossTransit why were Americans all “Free Tibet” 30 years ago and hardly thinks about Tibet today? there is no content to demands for consistency in people’s indignation and attention. if it soothes you that you can scry in these inconsistencies some bigotry if those which criticize a party you sympathize with, maybe that’s psychologically useful, but it has no normative content other should defer to.

@BenRossTransit (the obvious answer by the way with Arab obsession with Israel is that they consider it theft of “their” dominion, not merely oppression of coreligionists in random places. indeed we’d probably agree that Arab countries have worked assiduously to ensure the conditions of oppression are not relieved in a way that might diffuse the conflict rather than freeze it in a position of transgenerational agony.)

@BenRossTransit (i consider this Arab irredentism as illegitimate as all irredentisms, and view the UNs complicity in it as a perhaps fatal wound to that organization’s already flagging hopes for legitimacy. but irredentism is distinct from antisemitism, the implicit charge that usually lies behind calling attention to an “obsession” with Israel and its atrocities.)