# The Crane Brouhaha over Gaza, Pit edition

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**Created:** [April 19, 2024, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-crane-brouhaha-over-gaza-pit-edition/1000742 "2024-04-19T08:11:04Z")\
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> [@Thing.Fish](#):
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> But I think you’re reading way too much into this phrasing, and that he doesn’t believe anything of the kind.

I am taking the plain reading of his words exactly as he wrote them. If he was being metaphorically hyperbolic, he’s free to say so.

> [@Thing.Fish](#):
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> But **some** of it is, and Crane’s Jew-baiting falls squarely into that category.

I still fail to see it as Jew-baiting., That it was targeted at a subset of Jews doesn’t rise to Jew-baiting, any more than, say, yelling invective at evangelical doorbell-ringers ([with a sword!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-sneaky-little-jehovahs-witness-bastard/232042/31)) makes one anti-Christian.

I have explicitly said I think he was trolling. I think he used particularly hurtful-to-Jews imagery to do so. I don’t think he attacked them _because those targets were Jews_. Not all IOF cheerleaders on this board are, AFAIK.

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