Crickets from the media. Let a Confederate Flag show up a conservative rally and over half of the reporting from the media will fixate on the flag.
Via Seattle PI
The Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle, scene of a gruesome 2006 shooting, is voicing concern at an increase in anti-Semitic slogans and imagery seen at recent pro-Palestinian rallies at Westlake Park and the Seattle Center.
The Federation cites such examples as a Nazi swasstika drawn in the center of an Israeli flag, and a photo depicting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as Hitler and a photo equating Zionism to Nazism.
“Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia and all bias-motivated speech have no place in our political discourse,” said Keith Dvorchik, president and CEO of the Jewish Federation.
“We urge our local elected and religious leaders to condemn this speech. When so many people are suffering and tensions are on the rise around the world, now is the time for us to come together and reject hateful speech which relies on centuries of lies and fear to divide us.”
Criticism of Israeli policy, in the Seattle area, dates to a late 1970s trip to Palestine by Protestant church leaders.
It has often embraced Jewish peace activists, and sometimes featured young people from Israel and Palestine . . . although the sun will rise over the Olympic Mountains before a defender of Israeli foreign policy is invited to speak at a St. Mark’s Cathedral conference.