(JEWISH GROUP) Majority of Antisemitism Online Posted by Palestinians or Progressives

[Beastly Boy]

5. I too question the exclusion of Iran from the list of major souces of world's antisemitic rhetoric.

But we don't know the methodology that went into this report. It was presented at a cabinet-level meeting of the Israeli government. It included, according to the article, "the data on the number and geographic distribution of incidents." This makes it difficult to dismiss the report as a fabrication or a pile of bullshit.

Since we have no data at all to confirm or deny the contents of the report, we have no standing to categorically reject or accept it. We can only offer guesses, and not well informed ones at that, about the relative accuracy of the report, which makes our argumentative stance pretty weak. We know that certain data which is sufficiently impressive, at least in its appearance, for a cabinet-level meeting, is present in the report, and we know that no such data is present in our guesses.

In the contest between my opinions and the contents of the report, I would have to concede defeat.