Monday, February 3, 2014

Now Peace Talks, John Kerry, are “Anti-Semitic” in Eyes of Israeli Far Right. By Juan Cole.

Now Peace Talks, John Kerry, are “Anti-Semitic” in Eyes of Israeli Far Right. By Juan Cole. Informed Comment, February 2, 2014. Also at History News Network.

Kerry slammed by right for “encouraging” Israel boycott. By Herb Keinon and Lahav Harkov. Jerusalem Post, February 1, 2014.


Cole:

It is one of the less appealing characteristics of Zionist bullies that they engage blithely in stealing Palestinian land and resources in complete disregard for international law and then use the fig leaf of charges of “anti-Semitism” to deflect any criticism of their actions. (The Jewish Home Party, though religious, characterizes itself as “Zionist.”) This distasteful ploy has increasingly jumped the shark as simple human rights law has become “anti-Semitic” insofar as the current rightwing Zionist enterprise violates international norms, and yet its proponents maintain that criticizing Israel or Zionism is not allowed. All this is not to mention that the United States gives (underline gives) Israel billions of dollars a year in its taxpayers’ money, as well as trade privileges worth further billions. It doesn’t do that for any other country at that level. If Kerry is anti-Semitic now, what would he have to do, make it trillions?