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Labour suspends officials for "antisemitism"

samedi 7 mai 2016 à 02:00

Labour has suspended two local officials for "antisemitism" because of statements that really only criticize the occupation of Palestine.

Those two people may or may not be antisemitic, but these statements don't indicate that.

Neither of the quoted statements appears antisemitic to me. One said that European support for Israel's occupation of Palestine helped to provoke terrorist attacks in Europe. This is surely true. The statement criticizes Israel, but does not express hostility towards Jews.

The other one compares Israel's occupation policies with Nazi genocide. To equate them would be an exaggeration — Israel is not trying to kill Palestinians, only to ethnically cleanse them from certain areas — but Uri Avnery sees a similarity. Unlike us, he saw real Nazis before his family fled Germany.