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Jim Carroll BS: Is Israel Anti-Semitic? (17) RE: BS: Is Israel Anti-Semitic? 17 Jul 17


"To conclude more, would be silly."
Oh dear - and I'm the "Jew hater"
The stench of hypocrisy is now overwhelming
This, simply put, is what happened
"Official posters denouncing Mr Soros have been described by Hungary's main Jewish organisation as antisemitic. Yossi Amrani, Israel's ambassador in Budapest, urged Viktor Orban, the prime minister, to remove them.
"BEYOND POLITICAL CRITICISM OF A CERTAIN PERSON, THE CAMPAIGN NOT ONLY EVOKES SAD MEMORIES BUT ALSO SOWS HATRED AND FEAR," MR AMRANI SAID IN A STATEMENT.
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His bosses in Israel initially endorsed the call, but later issued a clarification, saying that the Hungarian-born financier threatened democracy by funding charities critical of Mr Netanyahu."
Simply put, the security of tenure of the Lekud Party outweighs the importance of antisemitism in a world where all forms of racism and bigotry, including that against Jews, have taken a sharp upturn. Not differences of opinion Joe - open support for an antisemitic poster put up by a Party with historical links to the Nazis
Joe leaps to support this incredible behaviour, Bobad immediately described all criticism of of Israel as "Jew Baiting", once more refuses to comment on this blatant appeasement of antisemitism and tries to turn the discussion into a defence of the illegal settlements
Please don't fall for that crap Steve - even the UN and the United States have declared the settlements illegal - it's a done deal.   
Forget my request Joe - I don't have a long enough spoon to dine with you
BEFORE NETANYAHU'S CHANGE-OF-MIND - JERUSALEM POST
Jim Carroll
The full version of events from last week's Times
The Times Tuesday, July 11th
ISRAEL BACKS HUNGARY'S 'ANTISEMITIC' POSTER AGAINST SOROS AFTER U-TURN
ISRAEL
Gregg Carlstrom Tel Aviv
Binyamin Netanyahu has overruled his ambassador and backed the right-wing Hungarian government's campaign against the Jewish billionaire George Soros.
Official posters denouncing Mr Soros have been described by Hungary's main Jewish organisation as antisemitic. Yossi Amrani, Israel's ambassador in Budapest, urged Viktor Orban, the prime minister, to remove them.
"Beyond political criticism of a certain person, the campaign not only evokes sad memories but al¬so sows hatred and fear," Mr Amrani said in a statement.
His bosses in Israel initially endorsed the call, but later issued a clarification, saying that the Hungarian-born financier threatened democracy by funding charities critical of Mr Netanyahu.
Mr Orban's government has repeatedly attacked Mr Soros and is trying to close down a liberal university that he set up and funded. It has accused him of trying to flood Europe with immigrants.
It has paid for billboards across the country denouncing Mr Soros as a threat to national security. "Let's not allow Soros to have the last laugh," reads one, next to a photo of the smiling banker. The head of Hungary's Jewish community said that the billboards were antisemitic, while Human
Rights Watch compared them to Nazi propaganda, which often featured "the laughing Jew".
Mr Orban wrote a letter to Jewish leaders last week saying: "My duty is to defend our homeland and citizens."
Israel is normally quick to condemn antisemitism, but this time the government distanced itself from the ambassador's comments. "In no way was the statement meant to delegitimise criticism of George Soros, who continuously undermines Israel's democratically elected govern¬ments by funding organisations that defame the Jewish state," Emmanuel Nachson, a spokesman for the foreign ministry, said.
Mr Netanyahu has not appointed a foreign minister and holds the post himself. He is scheduled to meet Mr Orban in Hungary next week.
Israel and Hungary have both passed legislation that seeks to limit the influence of liberal charities such as those Mr Soros funds.
Last month Mr Orban praised Miklos Horthy, a Second World War-era Hungarian leader, as an "exceptional statesman". Admiral Horthy was a Nazi ally who passed a series of anti-Jewish laws.
Again, Mr Amrani protested, this time on Hungarian television, and several leading Israeli politicians urged Mr Netanyahu to cancel his visit. But the foreign ministry said it was satisfied with Hungary's clarification—that Mr Orban was only praising the "positive periods" in his predecessor's history, not the "negative periods".
Israel used to follow local Jewish communities in deciding whether to meet parties with dubious pasts. It kept its distance from the National Front in France because Jewish leaders shunned the group.
But Mr Netanyahu and his government have sought to build ties with far-right factions across Europe, viewing them as useful diplomatic allies.
Last year, the head of Austria's Freedom Party spent a week in Israel on an official visit. The Israeli foreign ministry officially boycotts the party, which was founded in 1956 by former Nazis.




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