Philadelphia

I'm sorry, what would you call the deliberate, indiscriminate massacre of forty-thousand men, women, and children, and displacement of millions more if not terrorism? I call it terrorism, and genocide, and the incitement of terrorism and genocide and the response to terrorism and attempted genocide, going back not to arafat, but to 1948 and arguably even further back, but at least then. I feel I went over this pretty thoroughly already. Eyes and blood and vendetta and blindness and all that.

As for our- or I should say my, I guess- agreement, I took your statement:

... casually swapping out “Jew” for “Zionist”.

to mean that you agree with me that these terms are not synonymous. Do they mean the same thing in your opinion? They do not in mine. One is a person who supports a state, the other a person who practices a religion, at least in my book. I'm not catching whatever nuance you're presenting, and you haven't presented any sort of evidence to support that these protestors are using the one to mean the other, but merely asserted it.

I'd also like to draw my audience's attention to the complete lack of whatever evidence you have of nazi imagery and language in these protests.

I must ask you either withdraw your unsubstantiated accusations against my fellow protestors or substantiate them. Of course, you could (and I suspect probably will) just leave them up, but I fear the juxtaposition of my asking for evidence and your begging the question by re-asserting the as-yet-unsubstantiated claim, changing the subject, and then refusing to speak further will do more harm to your position than you could wish.

"Willful misunderstanding" he says. "Bad faith," forsooth. "Hurrumph," say I.