Avoiding stereotypes

The Israel Project is a Zionist propaganda unit based in the US. They’ve recently released a TV advertisement that reminds viewers: “They [Palestinians] turn perfectly healthy children into hateful robots…” It is about as useful as telling Americans that all Israeli soldiers are baby-killers or that all Jews hate Palestinians and Arabs.

Ramallah Online wants an end to the “hate speech” and a campaign against Comcast for screening the offensive ads:

Comcast needs to know that you feel this grossly discriminatory ad, sponsored by The Israel Project, depicting an entire race and generation of children as “hateful killing robots”, is a clear form of bigotry and racism! These ads are neither informative nor educational. They are simply promoting racist perceptions rather than facts.

As with so much of the anti-Palestinian, anti-Arab and anti-Muslim material in the West these days, the sheer hypocrisy of the message is striking. When an Arab newspaper publishes an anti-Semitic article or cartoon, it is rightly condemned. When an American or Israeli organisation pumps out derogatory material against the new, socially acceptable punching bag, barely a murmur is heard. If you’re the Australian Prime Minister, of course, displaying base ignorance about Islam is almost expected.

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