Selectively Generalizing From Acts of Political Violence

It's tempting to generalize from acts of political violence (and other bad acts). If the bad actor is on your side, you're less likely to infer to conclusions about the badness of the actor's--i.e. your--political cause. If his cause is one you disagree with, however, it's tempting to accept such generalizations.

   In the case at hand--roughly the pro-Palestine/anti-Israel business--I'm already pretty inclined to do this. The violent, irrational, and just generally repulsive nature of the protests already makes it more difficult for me to be sufficiently objective about the issue. I mean, I am pretty sure I'm not very objective about it anyway. So the temptation to make poorly-justified generalizations is already pretty strong.

   That's all I've got.