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Antisemitism definition sparks backlash on U.S. Left
2018-09-13
IN WHICH President Trump continues to help the Democratic party specifically, and Progressives in general, to define themselves as being vehemently against all that is right and good. And at each step more voters are peeled away from the Democrats, even if they don’t actually go all the way over to the Republicans.
[Jpost] The matter in question is whether opposing Jewish self-determination in the ancestral Jewish homeland of Israel, a political movement known as Zionism, should be considered antisemitic.

A debate over the definition of antisemitism that has paralyzed Britannia’s Labour Party made its way across the Atlantic this week, amid news that the Trump administration would apply a similar standard on discrimination toward Jews under scrutiny there at the US Department of Education.

The matter in question is whether opposing Jewish self-determination in the ancestral Jewish homeland of Israel, a political movement known as Zionism, should be considered antisemitic. Several Western government agencies, including the foreign and justice ministries of the US, Britannia and Germany, have policies that deem anti-Zionism a discriminatory practice that uniquely denies Jews the right to govern themselves.
Posted by:trailing wife

#7  Venn Diagram - a purple circle
Posted by: Frank G   2018-09-13 19:26  

#6  Zionism is not technically anti-semitism but those that appose Israel and those that are anti-semitic have a near 100% overlap so I'm not sure the difference is meaningful.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2018-09-13 19:00  

#5  ...they don't think, they feel.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2018-09-13 15:28  

#4  Notice the dichotomy in the Left's GoodThink: "American Civil War totally caused by Slavery/Racism!" and "Anti-Zionism has nothing to do with Israelis/Antisemitism." The mental gymnastics isis dizzying.
Posted by: magpie   2018-09-13 12:14  

#3  They are the party of the KKK, segregation, Dredd Scott, Orvis Faubus, and anti-Semitism.

So much for diversity
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom   2018-09-13 09:54  

#2  The demoncrats are the party of the KKK. By embracing Islam, by default they have to be even more Antisemitic.
Posted by: DarthVader   2018-09-13 09:18  

#1  The Left (left of what I sometimes wonder) want to keep their cake and eat it too.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2018-09-13 05:47  

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