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Thread #159827   Message #3790064
Posted By: Jim Carroll
13-May-16 - 08:10 AM
Thread Name: BS: (UK) Whither the Labour Party
Subject: RE: BS: (UK) Whither the Labour Party
The Israel regime and its supporters are continuing to equate criticism of Israel with Antisemitism to the extent that the former European definition has now been called into question.
I was quite interested to read the American State Department's definition, part of which reads:

"The fifth trend is the blurring of the lines between What I hear from our diplomatic missions, and from non-governmental organizations alike, is that this happens easily and often. I want to be clear – legitimate criticism of policies of the State of Israel is not anti-Semitism. We do record huge increases in anti-Semitic acts whenever there are hostilities in the Middle East. This form of anti-Semitism is more difficult for many to identify. But if all Jews are held responsible for the decisions of the sovereign State of Israel, this is not objecting to a policy – this is hatred of the collective Jew or anti-Semitism. "
So in fact the Israeli regime are still guilty of Antisemitism in claiming that all criticism o Israel is Antisemitic - in other wortds, it is The Jews who are committing the atrocities and war crimes, not the Israeli regime.
They have certainly blurred the lines between opposition to the policies of the State of Israel and anti-Semitism, and deliberately so.
The piece also includes:
"The sixth trend is the growing nationalistic movements which target "the other" – be they immigrants, or religious and ethnic minorities – in the name of protecting the identity and "purity" of nations"
which is, of course, what Israel is in the process of doing in ejecting Palestinians and replecing them with Israeli settler, thereby creating an Apartheid State (an accusation widely made by Israeli Jews and Jews elsewhere throughout the world.
It seem, despite its herclean efforts of propaganda, Israel cannot avoid being recognised as what is it a terrorist state defending its terrorism by blaming The Jewish People as a whole.
Jim Carroll.