[lbo-talk] Adam Hanieh, "Canadian Union Takes Important Step against Israeli Apartheid"

[Angelus Novus]

--- Dennis Redmond <dredmond at efn.org> wrote:

> Nonsense. You can criticize the state of Israel and
> its ghastly settler
> colonialism without being anti-Semitic or a stooge
> of authoritarian Middle
> Eastern regimes. 

Only if the standards that one uses to judge Israel
are universally applied.

Germany has a concept of citizenship which is still
largely defined by blood and ethnicity, despite some
minor improvements under the former Red-Green
government.  An ethnic German who was born in Russia
and speaks no other language than Russian still has a
greater claim to German citizenship than most people
of Turkish descent who have spent most of their lives
in Berlin-Kreuzberg and for whom German is their first
language.

Unless CUPE is about to call for a boycott of
Daimler-Chrysler and Thyssen-Krupp, than its actions
with regard to Israel are anti-semitic.  As is the use
of the word "apartheid" when applied to Israel and not
to any other nation-state.

One does not have to pine for a second Shoah in order
to be considered an anti-semite.  Actions such as
CUPE's, where Israel is held to a different standard
than other nation states, are sufficient to merit the
label.



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