When the international criminal court issued arrest warrants for Israeli officials in November, the response from the country’s government was all too familiar. The prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, rejected outright the warrants for alleged war crimes in Gaza against him and the former defence minister Yoav Gallant, calling them “an antisemitic decision”. The ultranationalist national security adviser, Itamar Ben-Gvir, declared that the court had shown “once again that it is antisemitic through and through”. And the transport minister, Miri Regev, chimed in, claiming: “This is modern antisemitism in the guise of justice.”
I find it hilarious that this opinion piece is in The Guardian given that it’s one of the newspapers which most weaponized anti-semitism accusations in their campaign against Jeremy Corbyn when he was leader of the Labour party some years ago, to the point of accusing a Jewish Holocaust Survivor of being an anti-semite (for, as member of a panel in a conference for Palestine, comparing the actions of Israel to those of the Nazis) in order to slander Corbyn by association (as he was in the same panel).
In fact the very same person who wrote this article was part of that very same campaign: here’s one of her articles back then slandering as anti-semitic the Labour party when led by Jeremy Corbyn
These sleazy hypocrites’ problem isn’t the weaponizing of accusations of anti-semitism, it’s that the ethno-Fascist populists in Israel aren’t doing it in a posh contained way like they would and instead are just firing it out indiscriminately, so the use of accusations of anti-semitism for political ends is losing its potency.
A population so illiterate or distracted to allow the bastardization of words to the point they no longer have meaning is foundational to fascism.
The attempt to call out words losing their meaning here is a little ironic when you put alleged in front of war crimes in this context.
I understand that in cases where you would want to avoid being sued but in this case: “rejected outright the warrants for alleged war crimes”
The warrant is for war crimes, the warrant is not alleging, the warrant is accusing, therefore you can safely claim he was issued a warrant for war crimes without trying to do this did they or didn’t they bullshit the media keeps on doing.
There is enough public evidence to wrap this shit up in seconds.
No, the warrant is for alleged war crimes, because “innocent until proven guilty” and the secound part can only happen in the courtroom.
Sadly, since the ICC does not judge in absence of the accused, we will likely never hear the final verdict, so the “alleged” part is here to stay.
That does make sense, I was worried I was thinking about it oddly but I guess that does make sense.
Meanwhile, the far right is taking advantage of the political crisis brought about by Israel’s world-changing war, alternately using actual antisemitism and a pretence of caring about antisemitism to advance its bigoted ideology. […] several people I spoke to told me they were afraid to even ask about antisemitism, for fear that this might itself be construed as antisemitism.
Yes, antisemitism has become a tool for witch hunting. And just like the boy who cried wolf protected the wolves, the State of Israel crying “antisemite” is protecting bigots with an antisemitic discourse.
But of course the State of Israel gives no fucks. It is not really on the side of the global Jewish population. Or even on the side of the Israelis. All States have this thing, where they stop being a tool for their populations and treat their populations as a tool, in a sickening inversion of morals.
This isn’t news; they’ve been doing it for decades. Maybe you could say the transformation of the word is fully complete now that it’s just a jewish-flavored “fake news”.
“they”
In this context I don’t mean “they”, I mean the Israeli government and the ADL specifically. There are other name-able groups and individuals contributing to the messaging, but I’m not here to name them all.
The ICC has not in any way connected the crimes they allege to Judaism, but Netanyahu et al have. They’re the ones who have asserted an inherent connection between those policies and Jewishness, and they’re the ones who have assigned support for, and thus responsibility for, those policies to Jews universally.
So they are in fact, and rather obviously, antisemites.
Tl;dr Israel deserves death.
Netanyahu is an antisemite
Labour adopting the IHRA in full was part of this weaponisation.
And this specific lady who has written this article was part of the people who back then helped bring down Corbyn with a slander campaign accusing him and the party under his leadership of being anti-semitic and pushed for the Labour Party to adopt that definition of anti-semitism which defines criticism of Israel as being a form of anti-semitism.
(And those paying attention might notice how the present day Labour Party, now in the hands of the faction which oppose Corbyn, and which is now in Government, are still sending weapons to Israel)
People like her and The Guardian, now crying crocodile tears, are part of the problem.
Always has been
I know people who are Catholicish.
Antizionist here, fwiw.
Fuck Off, everytime you act like fucking Nazis, we’re going to call you fucking Nazis, and if you threaten or attack us, we’re going to hurt you worse than you can ever imagine ~ Jews
Your grandparents oppression doesn’t give you the right to genocide others. If you’re Jewish and not genociding others, then you’re not being talked about here.
Israel in it’s current state must be dismantled and given back to the people.
Like what happened in Gaza in 2005.
An open air prison with enforced embargo and regular bombings to keep the prisoners in terror and destroy infrastructure on a fraction of a fraction of stolen land is not “giving the land back to the people.”
Being against genocide is now Nazi behavior got it thanks for the heads up.
Do you agree with everything Netanyahu, Israel, and every Jewish person who has ever lived has ever done?
Fuck Off, everytime you act like fucking Nazis, we’re going to call you fucking Nazis, and if you threaten or attack us, we’re going to hurt you worse than you can ever imagine ~ Jews
Emphasis mine. Who’s that generic “you” in your comment?
I’m asking because, in this context, it reads like “critics of the war”, so it implies “criticising the war is to act like a Nazi”, something blatantly false.
Logic is antisemitic, but only when you do it, not when I do it.
I’m having trouble believing this statement is genuine.
An example of folks who changed the meaning of Apartheid to "inequality in places I don’t like, " and Genocide to “any war I don’t like” now clutching their pearls over the purity of language. I don’t like how the term antisemitisn has been abused, but I also don’t like the hypocrisy of people who are fine with weaponizing sensitive language when it suits them.
Apartheid and Genocide have clear meanings both of which Israeli actions against Palestinians are textbook examples of.
