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Criticising the Israeli government or anti-Semitism? : Comments
By Dave Smith, published 14/5/2009It has become politically fashionable to equate any criticism of the government of Israel with anti-Semitism.
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What bollocks. The only people who tend to make this accusation are those who can't mount a decent defence of their criticisms of Israel.
As various other people associated with the Jewish community have sugested in recent times, I challenge you to name a single leader or representative of a mainstream Australian Jewish organisation that has reflexively labelled someone who criticises Israel an anti-Semite. There have been such accusations made, of course, but as a result of deliberation and thought, not a knee-jerk response.
Moreover, the term antisemitism was coined in 1879 by Wilhelm Marr, an anti-Jewish propagandist in Germany, to describe hatred of the Jews. It has no relation to people of Semitic origin, which includes Arabs as well as Jews.