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"If I were a Jew I would be concerned about my insatiable appetite for war and killing in defense of myself."

Could you say something like that about any other group of people and not get fired?

The problem is the somewhat uniquely strong correlation between "Jews" and "Israel". You can usually bet money that somebody saying "X race/religion is hungry for violence" isn't saying much that's useful, and is mostly expressing hatred. But replace "X" with a country or government, and there's a higher chance they're making a legitimate point (disregarding how provocative the words they've chosen are, and how appropriate that choice is). In either case, one should of course try to get more context, but the unity of race + religion + nation + historical persecution into a single word, "Jew", makes it extremely difficult to filter the noise out on this topic.

It doesn't help that the choice of headline wording I've seen on every single instance of this report is, while not absolutely a lie, certainly misleading and clickbaity, and should be changed.

I agree, he should have been more precise on who he blames. he generalized a bit with saying the jews. However, the essence of his writing is somewhat true. He talks about different jews that suffered and asked us to see the compassion in them and what they went through, surely we should be more humanists, I agree with most he said. apart from the generalising part

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