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Thread #160727   Message #3815460
Posted By: Steve Shaw
19-Oct-16 - 06:39 AM
Thread Name: BS: What does 'anti-semitism' mean?
Subject: RE: BS: What does 'anti-semitism' mean?
Shah, who was elected MP for Bradford West last May, shared a picture of Israel's outline superimposed on to a map of the US under the headline "Solution for Israel-Palestine Conflict – Relocate Israel into United States", with the comment "problem solved".

In the post shared in 2014 – nine months before Shah became an MP – it went on to say that Americans would "welcome Israelis with open arms" and that the relocation would bring peace to the Middle East by ending "foreign interference".

The post suggested the US had "plenty of land" to accommodate Israel as a 51st state, allowing Palestinians to "get their life and their land back".

Alongside the post, Shah added a smiley-face emoji and suggested she would lobby the prime minister to adopt the plan.

It added that Israeli people would be welcome and safe in the US, while the "transportation cost" would be less than three years' worth of Washington's support for Israeli defence spending.

Shah added a note suggesting the plan might "save them some pocket money".


Well, Keith, that's the whole yarn as reported faithfully by The Guardian. Seven mentions of Israel/Israelis and NOT ONE MENTION OF THE WORD JEWS.

Naz Shah was extremely stupid to make those remarks. But you can only be antisemitic if you mention Jews or imply that Jews as a people are responsible for the issues you're pointing to. It's quite clear from the above that her flippant remarks were aimed at the POLITICAL PROBLEMS caused by Israeli policies, which are determined by the ISRAELI REGIME. If she apologised for antisemitism she was doing it to save her own arse. There is nothing, NOTHING antisemitic in the above, yet this is your favourite example. It's a perfect example of your conflating criticism of Israeli regime policies with attacks on Jews because they are Jews. You're trying to impose your disreputable "wider definition" that makes Jews collectively responsible for the actions of their regime, which makes no more sense than making all Brits collectively responsible for invading Iraq. It does make you an antisemite. You are the enemy of Jewish people the world over.