JVP Dissociates Itself From Alison Weir

[Little Tich]

40. No, no...

The problem is that it's very complex to argue for someones true motivations when they're not readily apparent. It's all about inductive arguments, more or less cogent, and then trying to fit it into a deductive conclusion.

In a way, this is little bit of a standoff, as there are statements that clearly shows that a person is a racist, there are statements that indicate that a person may be / probably is a racist, and finally there are statement that don't indicate anything.

When it comes to anti-Semitism, which I see as a subgroup of racism, I think we agree that there are these three types of statements, but we fundamentally disagree on which kind of statements constitute these groups.

We also seem to disagree on what anti-Semitism is on very fundamental level, as for me anti-Semitism isn't actually what I'm against - I'm against racism, and my views on anti-Semitism are actually my views on racism. And then we also disagree on whether attacks on things suposedly connected to Jews, like Zionism and Israel, if those attacks would be anti-Semitic.

All in all, I would say that you let your bias lead you a little bit too much, so that you think that those who criticize Israel and Zionism are somehow driven by anti-Semitism when they actually aren't.