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Thread #160727   Message #3815804
Posted By: Jim Carroll
21-Oct-16 - 04:30 AM
Thread Name: BS: What does 'anti-semitism' mean?
Subject: RE: BS: What does 'anti-semitism' mean?
Naz Shah took a the genuine proposal of a Jewish academic and suggested it as an answer to the conflict - the map she used was Finklestein's ans was the original idea.
There was no animosity towards either the Jewish or the Israeli people - any animosity was aimed at the Israeli leadership - simple as that - as the Israeli regime have branded all condemnation of its policy"Antisemitic", that is what Shah was accused of and, I would guess, for the sake of making the issue go away, that is what she admitted to and apologised for.
The right-wing bum-wipe press, the Anti-Corbynites and the pro-Israeli propaganda team (including their handful of representatives on this forum) dishonestly presented the idea as Shah's antisemitic attack on the Jewish People - some even headlined it as a demand for the forcible TRANSPORTATION of all Israelis.
It was not her idea, it was not malicious and it was not antisemitic.
Any antisemitism in all this comes from those who would blame "The Jews" for the actions of the Israeli regime - the foremost of those being that regime itself.
It also comes from the member of this forum who suggested a pact of silence on the part of the Jewish Politicians in order to protect what they claimed to be a party with a large antisemitism problem (not forgetting his two supporters, of cours - credi where credit's due)
Jim Carroll