Anti-Semitism takes different forms. There is the murderous type of anti-Semite  like the man who carried out the attack in Manchester. There are the vicious individuals who scream obscenities at Jewish people in the streets. There are Holocaust deniers like the President of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas (who some would like to see as the leader of an independent Palestinian state on the West Bank).  There are conspiracy theorists like Dr Rahmeh Aladwan who believes that Britain is ‘occupied and controlled by Jewish supremacy’(recently cleared to practise medicine by the Medical Practitioners Tribunal). Then there are more sophisticated forms of anti-Semitism. There are the anti-Zionists who deny Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish homeland , justifying their prejudice by one-sided accounts of the history of the region. Finally there are the critics of Israel. Many of these individuals angrily deny that criticism of Israel equates to anti-Semitism. And of course they are right. The two things are not the same. Indeed many Israelis are critical of their of their own government. But at times criticism of Israel can cross the line viz 1) false accusations of genocide (a particularly wounding charge given that the Jewish people were the victims of the worst genocide in human history eighty years ago and were attacked on October 7 by Hamas, an avowedly genocidal organisation) 2) judging Israel by standards that are never applied to other countries (such as Britain whose airforce killed tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of German civilians during the war) 3) singling out Israel for particular and constant condemnation while overlooking actual genocide in Sudan, ethnic cleansing in Myanmar and cultural genocide in China 4) nasty remarks such as the accusation that the Israelis are ‘weaponising’ the Holocaust when the truth is that they fear a second Holocaust at the hands of their Arab neighbours, many of whom deny Israel’s right to exist.

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Topic	Date Posted	Posted By
Attacked because of your religion	02/10/25 12:52:00	Robert Wheeler
Re:Attacked because of your religion	02/10/25 12:59:00	Ivonne Holliday
Reply	02/10/25 13:29:00	Michael Ixer
Re:Attacked because of your religion	02/10/25 16:31:00	Lucille Grant
Re:Attacked because of your religion	02/10/25 17:14:00	John Hawkes
Re:Re:Attacked because of your religion	02/10/25 17:44:00	Robert Wheeler
Re:Re:Re:Attacked because of your religion	02/10/25 19:23:00	Lucille Grant
Re:Re:Attacked because of your religion	02/10/25 18:05:00	Sue Hammond
Reply	02/10/25 18:30:00	Martine Guy
Re:Reply	02/10/25 18:37:00	Richard Carter
Re:Re:Re:Attacked because of your religion	02/10/25 19:25:00	Lucille Grant
Re:Re:Re:Re:Attacked because of your religion	02/10/25 19:45:00	Gerry Boyce
Re:Re:Attacked because of your religion	02/10/25 20:04:00	Michael Brigo
Reply	02/10/25 20:22:00	Sue Hammond
Re:Re:Re:Attacked because of your religion	02/10/25 20:26:00	Robert Wheeler
Re:Re:Re:Re:Attacked because of your religion	02/10/25 21:49:00	Steven Rose
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Attacked because of your religion	02/10/25 22:25:00	Michael Brigo
Reply	02/10/25 22:32:00	Sue Hammond
Re:Reply	02/10/25 23:02:00	Steven Rose
Re:Re:Reply	02/10/25 23:54:00	Gerry Boyce
Re:Re:Re:Reply	03/10/25 01:04:00	Steven Rose

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