"What explains most of the world's dislike of Israel?"

I have often wondered this question as well.

"Even if you forget that a series of offensive wars to destroy Israel in part originated from Palestine, or that Israel has given up land acquired by war in its perennial hope for "land for peace," what is so unique about the West Bank that drowns out all other crises over contested ground (from islands like Cyprus and the Falklands to entire countries like Tibet)? Why has tiny Israel alone earned more U.N. resolutions of condemnation than all those offered against all other nations of the world combined?"

I remember when I was an undergrad, the venom and animus that was directed at the Israeli government in protests and demonstrations by unthinking students and professors who selectively champion the Palestinian cause, of which they know little about, for holy land in a legitimate struggle between peoples of two religions yet nary a word was ever spoken or shouted about the equally contentious issue of Kashmir between the Pakistanis and India, a chunk of land much less holy than the West Bank?

Could it be that the criticism of Israel has little to do with the West Bank, Palestine and religion and everything to do with the fact that a darker skinned people (Palestinians) are in conflict with a lighter skinned people (Israelis) whereas the equally brown Pakistanis and Indians fall outside the racialist dynamic this conflict has become and therefore outside the narrative so many who believe in a racialist worldview cannot comprehend and conveniently ignore? I think so too.

Take it one step further and you have naked at the core the fundamental reason so many who marched and protested three and a half years ago against the coming U.S. war with Saddam, and have vehemently opposed operation Iraqi Freedom all along. And still do. And always will. International ANSWER, college faculties and sadly, too many in the Democratic party will never support our effort in the war on terror, whether George W. is president or not, not because they fear losing. Oh no, they fear us winning. Winning in Iraq, like the Israelis standing their ground to the Palestinians disrupts their narrative and if Iraq is able to stabilize itself and govern itself as a united nation, aided and abetted by the 82nd Airborne and predicated upon "Shock and Awe" then not only is the big bad U.S. military the good guys who liberated an entire people, but the dynamic, pedaled since the 1960's that we (still) live in a racist and oppressive society, with the pale faces the true evildoers ceases to have any meaning and the squalor that the Palestinians live in becomes their own doing. And their own failure.  Read on . . .

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2006/07/the_israel_enigma.html