It reminds me of when individuals from BME communities are found to be fraudulent or wrong-doing, say in the police or in politics, the voices of condemnation are usually much louder and shriller than they would be for white people. The subtext, imv, is one of, 'see, we can't trust these people'. When western people criticise the actions/warmongering of their governments, they do not refer to the fact that the majority are white, christian men. As far as I can see, Christians has wrought untold suffering, exploitation and conflict upon the world. As a non-jewish person exposed to anti-semitism in mainstream culture throughout my life, as well as hearing it from my father, I have had to do a lot of work on challenging these deep-rooted prejudices. The tendency to link the actions of Israel to all Jews is unacceptable, as is the expectation that Jewish people must account for every wrong-doing committed by the state of Israel. I remember challenging my father, in response to his, "they all stick together and help only eachother", along the lines of, "what about all the white christian men in the old boys network helping eachother". Not a very sophisticated argument, I acknowledge, but he did begin to look at it a bit differently.
