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'Criticism' of Israel - or racism?

JT | 18.02.2009 10:56 | Anti-racism | Palestine

Being anti-Israel is not always anti-Semitic. However Howard Jacobson argues today in 'The Independent', to see 'criticism' of Israel for what it really is. Is the 'European disease' really making a return in Britain today or is this just paranoia?

 http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/howard-jacobson/howard-jacobson-letrsquos-see-the-criticism-of-israel-for-what-it-really-is-1624827.html

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yawn

18.02.2009 12:09

non news advert for corporate media article

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jacobson

18.02.2009 14:44

Jacobson has the unfortunate problem of being quite right but speaking to those who won't hear of it.

quite right

'just paranoia'?

18.02.2009 19:01

Absolutely. Next!

Concerned of Palestine

Believe it

18.02.2009 20:49

Believe it. People are now getting hurt because of their race / religion. If you do nothing you are complicit.

 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7885233.stm

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don't forget

18.02.2009 23:07

But don't forget the first rule of Indymedia: anti-Semitism is always the fault of the Jews. If it can't be blamed on the Jews directly, then indirectly. But never, ever, ever allow the thought that there is anything other than tiny odd bits of negligible anti-Semitism on the left. Never, ever allow that thought that there may be something more systemic than that. We are The Good Guys, and that's all the deeper you need to go in terms of self-examination. We are The Good Guys. That's all you need to think.

don't forget

That newspaper has a comments section

18.02.2009 23:22

so why not post there instead of reposting here?

I don't think this is 'just paranoia', anti-Jewish attacks certainly occur, but I do think this is pro-Israeli propaganda designed to deflect European criticism of the genocidal massacres in Gaza. Same mainstream newspaper stories started being over-reported in 2006, and I can remember them in 1982.

I feel your post is part of that propaganda or at least displays a subtle bias typical of propaganda that you may have inadvertently repeated from genuine propaganda. For instance, the phrase "Being anti-Israel is not always anti-Semitic" is a mirror of "Being Israeli does not always mean you like to slaughter innocent women and children" or "Being Jewish does not always mean you are a lying propagandist" and yet I'm sure you would object to those equally accurate statements. Your implication is that much or most criticism of the Israeli state is motivated by anti-Jewish bias, and that simply has no truth in reality, or at least no evidence to back it up. Subconsciously though the connection has been made in your few short lines, criticism of the Israeli state is basically racist.

I can have no idea whether you are part of the huge and undeniable Israeli propaganda machine that is currently frentic but I certainly can't see anything in your post that differentiates you from that.

Daniel

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