if you want to make a case that antisemitism plays an unusual role in the US discourse surrounding Israel, your best point of reference is Yemen and US support of Saudi Arabia’s conflict there, which conflict (whomever you blame for it) did lead to mass famine and death, but not to mass protest on US campuses.
@interfluidity@Alon@BenRossTransit Whatever it is, IMO it's kind of late for any stable transition. I agree with @shadihamid 's take which is basically that the path to stable democracy in the Muslim world runs through allowing destabilizing and illiberal elements to run their historical course, and the longer this is postponed, the worse the rebound will be. By that light, the Arab Spring was possibly the last opportunity for a manageable shift.
@asayeed@Alon@BenRossTransit@shadihamid i think the US is likely to go for a Taiwan/Korea solution—support illiberal autocracy until it mb someday becomes secure enough to relax into liberalism. that may not succeed, but if you think ugly illiberalism is an unfortunate historical necessity, is it necessarily worse? is it a bad idea to try, given the risks to global (including obviously US/Western) stability of more freeform Islamicized illiberalism?
@interfluidity@Alon@BenRossTransit@shadihamid This is the theory behind the current lionization of the Gulf Arab states particularly UAE as the current paragons of modernity in the Arab world in particular. It depends on some very specific conditions that do not obtain overall, such as a sustainable form of industralization.