• published: 06 Nov 2010
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What do you think? Is Anti-Zionism a form of Anti-Semitism? Why do we see massive "pro-Palestinian" or more accurately anti-Israeli campaigns, rallies and propaganda? Why do we hear continuing calls to boycott Israel? Why do we see the Israeli "Apartheid" week? Can all these be ruled off as driven by some sort of anti-Semitic notions? Can it maybe at least put a question mark behind some of the critic's motives? If you don't think so then please explain to me, in-light of the numbers below, why don't we see massive pro-Kurdish rallies? Why isn't there a boycott Turkey campaign for what they are doing to their own Kurdish civilians? Why don't we get Turkish Apartheid week? Take a look at the numbers and answer: * Israel - Palestine - Duration of conflict: almost 100 years. - Duration of armed conflict: ~60 years - Palestinians killed by Israelis: 6,000 -- 10,000 (avg. 8,000) - Palestinians killed per year of conflict: ~133 - Palestinians displaced: 750,000 - Palestinian terrorist organizations: 7 major groups (list at the bottom) - Number of people killed by Palestinian Terror: 1142 (in last 1,000 attacks) - Percent of population killed by Palestinian Terror: ~0.015% (population: 7,645,600) - Civilian targets attacked by Palestinians: 78.6% - Right of Arabs to speak Arabic: Yes (Arabic is a formal state language in Israel) - Political rights: Full (2 Arab parties in Israeli parliament) - Security Council resolution violations: 31 (mostly about illegal occupation and aggression in the West Bank and Gaza - list at the end) * Kurdistan - Turkey - Duration of conflict: almost 100 years - Duration of armed conflict: ~30 years - Kurds killed by Turkey: 35,000 - 40,000 (avg. 37,500 - ~30,000 more than Palestinians) - Kurds killed per year of conflict: ~1250 (1000 more than Palestinians) - Kurds displaced: 3,000,000 (2,250,000 more than Palestinians) - Kurdish terrorist organization: PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party) - Turks killed by PKK: 2,698 (in last 1,000 attacks) - Percent of population killed by PKK: ~0.00003% (population: 72,561,312) - Civilian targets attacked by PKK: 50% - Right of Arabs to speak Kurdish: No (Nor name children in Kurdish names, sing Kurdish songs, ware Kurdish clothes, etc. - COMPLETE OPPRESSION!!!) - Political rights: None - Security Council resolution violations: 24 (mostly about illegal occupation and aggression in Cyprus) For more research: * Videos: - Documentary: Good Kurds, Bad Kurds http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x33grBe_wjQ - Kurdish genocide http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2FjZKdUsMM - The Kurds A People in Search of Their Homeland http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/191643-1 - Turkish State Terror Against Kurds- A soldier threw grenade at Kurdish kids, says eyewitness http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uUczdChIOs - Attack against Kurds - turkey kill women and children http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_TlQ0OeBWs - Turkey kill and torture Kurds http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6ID8jSGHZM - Inside Story - 'Crushing the PKK' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spfdppvIk1s - Antisemitism Or Antizionism? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MnpRK2LMj8 - Arabs speaking about Israel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbrIWyEhl8A http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8Fmw45rKW4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijQJpKkNCdk * Links to read: - The accepted genocide of Kurds in Turkey http://www.kurdmedia.com/article.aspx?id=13491 - The PKK and the US State Department's Terror Report http://www.fas.org/irp/world/para/docs/mfa-t-pkk.htm - Internally Displaced Persons: The Kurds in Turkey - A KHRP Repor http://www.khrp.org/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage;=shop.flypage&category;_id=12&product;_id=71&vmcchk;=1&option;=com_virtuemart&Itemid;=139 - Turkey's displaced Kurds often cannot return home TopNews http://www.topnews.in/turkeys-displaced-kurds-often-cannot-return-home-2186144 - List of political parties in Turkey http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_parties_in_Turkey#Kurdish_nationalist - Terror attacks research resources http://www.start.umd.edu/gtd/ * A little perspective: - List of wars and anthropogenic disasters by death toll http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_and_anthropogenic_disasters_by_death_toll - UN Security Council resolution violators From Occupied Palestine http://www.fromoccupiedpalestine.org/node/569 - List of United Nations Security Council resolutions concerning Cyprus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_Nations_Security_Council_resolutions_concerning_Cyprus - Guilty Until Proven Guilty http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/06/09/guilty_until_proven_guilty *Palestinian Terror Organizations Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade; Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP(; Hamas; Palestine Islamic Jihad; The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO(; Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP(; Popular Resistance Committees (PRC);