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Israel/Palestine

shira

(30,109 posts) Mon Jul 4, 2016, 10:32 AM Jul 2016

The Real Jeremy Corbyn Stands Up – Marc Goldberg

Theme: Championing human rights as a foil for antisemitism: an element of the New Antisemitism.

From Marc Goldberg: "It is precisely the linkage between caring about human rights and being antisemitic against Jews in the UK that Jews took issue with in the first place. The idea that being antisemitic is okay as long as Israel is involved in the argument is precisely the nonsense that Corbyn and Chakrabarti are supposed to be challenging. Instead the message to Jews is that they shouldn’t be defending Israel in the first place as it is akin to the Islamic State and that should they receive abuse back it is because their defence of Israel rightly made people so upset that any antisemitism is to be excused."

https://engageonline.wordpress.com/2016/07/04/the-real-jeremy-corbyn-stands-up-marc-goldberg/

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