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Photo: Jews at Western Wall, Jerusalem, 1870s; Félix Bonfils (wikipedia – public domain)
By Melanie Phillips
Freelance Writer
The enemies of Israel and of the Jewish people, who infest social media, have developed a new meme. What’s needed, they assert, is “Judaism without Zionism”.
This is the next step up from their mantra that “anti-Zionism isn’t the same as antisemitism”. Both statements are designed to deny that hating Israel means they hate Jews — perish the thought!
Some of their best friends are Jews, they maintain; it’s the Jewish state whose existence, alone of all the states in the world, that they oppose. Which apparently is absolutely fine.
This formula of “Judaism without Zionism” is the strategy of Jew-baiters. The “good” Jews, with whom they surround themselves as human shields against the charge of antisemitism, are those who hate Israel. The “bad” Jews are those who love it. Click here to continue.
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