Is It Anti-Semitic to Criticize Israel?

Israel National News (Arutz 7) ^ | Feb. 1, 2004 | Jared Israel

[Alouette]

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[goldstategop]

Its not anti-semitic to take issue with specific Israeli policies. On the other hand, its clear one is an anti-semite if they deny the Holocaust happened or call for the destruction of the Jewish State.

[SJackson]

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[Sam Cree]

"Is It Anti-Semitic to Criticize Israel?"

No, but I'm sure that most people doing so are anti Semitic. Not to mention leftist. But then, the anti Semitism of the Left is nothing new.

Now to read the article, which looks interesting.

[skip2myloo]

Is it racist to criticize crime ??

Depends.

[Daphne]

Why would criticizing Israel be any different from criticizing any other government?

If they want to be recognized as a legit government in the world, they'll have to take the criticism every other legit gov't takes.

They shouldn't use their religion to ward off criticism of their policies.

[Alouette]

Why would criticizing Israel be any different from criticizing any other government?

Is it "constructive criticism" to claim (falsely) that a government is a "racist" "apartheid" state or that it has no right to exist?

[goldstategop]

No one is saying its anti-semitic to criticize Israeli policies. They can and are debated and Israel's not employing the "Religion Card" to avoid moral accounting. As I explained in a previous post, taking issue with the fact the Holocaust happened and with the fact of Israel's existence does qualify as anti-semitism. In other words, its the denial of Jewish history that that concerns Jews and deny their history and you might as well dismiss their being here altogether. If that's not anti-semitism, I don't know what would be. And that is precisely the agenda that drove the Nazis and which drives the Palis today to wipe the Jews off the face of the Earth.

[Guillermo]

And, to many Jews, it's anti-semitic to believe the Gospels.

[Phil V.]

I take it then that you, the author and the Israeli government do, without qualification, condemn population transfer as well as fence route designs based on demographics?

[ladyjane]

"Is It Anti-Semitic to Criticize Israel?" No, but I'm sure that most people doing so are anti Semitic.

Life can't be easy for you if you feel this way.

[In_25_words_or_less]

IMO and experience it's not expedient to give an anti-Semite a crack in the door, even for their own sakes. (Genesis 12:1-3)

[Sam's Army]

Well, you know the current saying that's vogue right now with all the campus lefties: "I'm not anti-Semitic, I'm anti-Zionist."

Uh-huh, yeah.

[marty60]

As with all evil dums and socialist/commie/fascist scum, anti-semitism is a badge of honor. it is time for people that have a mind to face the facts that by throwing out hot words, aparteid etc, it diverts the attention from their true goal. The evil ones know that by using such terms, the attention of the uninform flash to a scene elswhere, with no relevance to the current situation. What does black SA have to do with Israel, NOTHING. Somehow a murderous Palie is allowed to get on a bus with Jews/Christians/Arabs, kill everyone, and somehow Israel is an aparteid state.

Actually studying an issue takes time, most people just latch on to the easy jingoistic answer. How in the H*** do you explain Evil Dums getting elected to office in the U.S.

It is very basic Soviet style disinformation. Most of these lefties studied the technique in USSR anyway.

[munozjoe]

I remember once visiting Wellesley College. There a jewish group had put up a poster "Ten Points Why Israel is not an Apartheid State" The only point I can remember was "In Israel Palestians are allowed to study at universities". Can you imagine a worse PR campaign?
When I travelled through Israel I was amazed by the beauty of the country and the non-radical views of most of the people I met. It is a shame that a small minority of extremists can dominate a country so much. You see people with machine guns at every corner and at most roads you find signs "Danger, do not leave the path, landmines!"
Palestinians or Israelis, they should just live peacefully together and drop all violent or racist idiots in the Dead Sea. That would also save a lot of money for that wall. I am currently doing business in Berlin, and I cannot believe another country wants to set up what people here have nonviolently turned down just some years ago.

[veronica]

Anti-Zionism is anti-semitism -- Behind much criticism of Israel is a thinly veiled hatred of Jews

[Radix]

No offense but your post is full of non sequiturs.

[munozjoe]

If you have anything specific in mind just tell me.

[Rodney King]

I am currently doing business in Berlin, and I cannot believe another country wants to set up what people here have nonviolently turned down just some years ago.

Anyone who can't see the difference between a wall that is designed to keep people and a wall that is designed to keep people out is lacking any ability to think rationaly.