[richardjordan]

It's amazing how often I - as a non-Jew - hear rants about the Palestinian territories eventually drift off into anti-semitic stereotypes with the assumption I'll be sympathetic to the opinion.

Just like yes, most Europeans I know (which is kinda a lot given that I'm British and just happen to live in the US nowadays) who are ballistic about NSA spying give their own countries, often much farther along as surveillance states, a free pass because basically it's just another reason to attack the US (as is European left's recent flirtations with Islam, an ideology which in many ways you'd think is diametrically opposed to much of what the European left professes to believe - but anti-Americanism trumps all).