[lprd]

I’ve often pondered the same. Seems like Israel gets a lot of special treatment from the US.

[imzadi]

Because anti-Semitism is used to derail any conversation about Israel. If you criticize Israel, you're accused of being an anti-Semite, and actual anti-Semites flood the conversation with actual anti-Semitism that immediately shuts everything down.

[issafram]

Also, people ignore that Palestinians are Semites as well.

[recursivedoubts]

if i were a government and any conversation that criticized me could be shut down by calling it something I would pay people to do that something

[bell-cot]

You might want to ask a few old politicians about what effects "being perceived as insufficiently pro-Israel" has historically had, on Election Day.

[vmladenov]

Well, them and Saudi Arabia. It’s useful to have allies in the Middle East to protect trade routes.