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"In the latest publicity stunt of its kind, with rapidly diminishing returns, the representatives of the Israeli state at the United Nations have taken to appearing with the gold star on their lapels reminiscent of those used during the Nazi persecution of European Jews in the 1930s.
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The rhetorical implication is clear: political opposition to Israel is antisemitic. Subtlety is apparently not a priority of Israeli diplomats.
In a similar vein, the ADL, while it’s running its censorious political operations in the United States, routinely conflates legitimate political speech with antisemitism and all other manner of verboten
-isms.
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It’s time we stopped playing these semantical games. Antisemitism and anti-Zionism are two distinct concepts:
· “Antisemitism”
is defined as “hostility toward or discrimination against Jews as a religious, ethnic, or racial group”
· “Anti-Zionism”
is defined as “opposition to the establishment or support of the state of Israel”
The former is a millennia-old religious/ethnic prejudice; the latter is a political ideology in opposition to a political entity called Israel.
Opposing the activities of the Israeli state is not tantamount to hating Jews any more than opposition to the Kremlin is to anti-Christianity. Indeed, a large contingent of Orthodox Jews -- although they do not receive much corporate state media coverage due to the obvious narrative difficulty they present -- oppose the state of Israel on religious grounds.
Again, the point must be emphasized: these anti-Zionists are not just Jews, but among the most hardline, dogmatic, fundamentalist Jews on the planet. No one in their right mind, even if they think their political views on Israel are misguided, could honestly conceive of them as antisemitic.
This is basic stuff, such that a child could easily understand.
Of course, it’s not that the purveyors of this conflation don’t understand it; they cynically weaponize the memory of the Holocaust to use as political cover for the activities of the state of Israel.
In the latest publicity stunt of its kind, with rapidly diminishing returns, the representatives of the Israeli state at the United Nations have taken to appearing with the gold star on their lapels reminiscent of those used during the Nazi persecution of European Jews in the 1930s.
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Could not have said it better myself
Comrade Stalin
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