--- 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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