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

[Angelus Novus]

--- Marvin Gandall <marvgandall at videotron.ca> wrote:
> This is such a tired discussion, but so long as this
> canard keeps surfacing,
> it needs to be clubbed back into its hole. Maybe
> some of the distressingly
> large number of people like yourself who have
> accepted this Zionist
> McCarthyism as good coin can be persuaded otherwise.

I understand that in the United States, right-wing
elements do throw around the accusation of
"anti-semitism" as a means of silencing all criticism
of Israel.

But that was not the intent behind my post.  As I
stated before, criticism of Israel is anti-semitic
when Israel is singled out for special treatment for
simply acting as any nation-state would in a similar
situation.

And I also said that this anti-semitism is not
necessarily eliminatory anti-semitism.  Not all
anti-semites would deny the Holocaust or condone it. 
Probably the majority wouldn't.

Until CUPE as a trade union takes a position for open
Canadian borders, their condemnation of Israel's
"apartheid" is social chauvinism and reactionary
populism, pure and simple.



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