Diaspora Jews feel Gaza backlash —again | World War 4 Report

16.7.14

Diaspora Jews feel Gaza backlash —again | World War 4 Report: We must call out the twin errors that are nearly ubiquitous in commentary on such incidents. One is to deny the context of the Gaza bombardment and portray such outbursts as mere arbitrary anti-Semitism. The other is to deny the anti-Semitic element, as if fire-bombing a synagogue were a legitimate way to protest Israeli atrocities. Leftists are the first to protest when the religion of Islam is painted with the brush of Islamist terrorism, yet are frequently undisturbed when the religion of Judaism, or Jewish ethnicity, are similarly painted with the brush of Zionist state terror. As we've said again and again and again and again and again: Ritual squawking that "anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism" is just that—an empty ritual bereft of meaning—if we don't call out real anti-Semitism. Use of the "anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism" mantra to excuse this ugliness is no better than the Zionists' bogus use of the charge of anti-Semitism to silence critics of Israel. In fact, it is exactly the same propaganda device.