Chow was criticized by pro-Israel Jewish groups, who said her comments were antisemitic and could encourage violent reprisals against the Jewish community.
Chow was criticized by pro-Israel Jewish groups, who said her comments were antisemitic and could encourage violent reprisals against the Jewish community.
I fear the Jewish community will one day regret using “antisemitic” as a cover for genocide or zionist colonialism. It does irreperable damage to protection from real hate crimes.
It’s not the Jewish community, but Zionists specifically. Their sole motivation is to protect the fascist Israeli government at all cost, and they will completely devalue the meaning of antisemitism to that end.
They don’t care about protecting Jews from hatred, and they completely ignore the views of countless Jewish people who oppose the genocide. Including Holocaust survivors and their descendants.
Exactly. Let’s refuse to reduce the Jewish community to the pro-israeli shills. The Zionists shouldn’t be handed out a monopoly on Jewishness. Prominent critics of Israeli crimes are themselves Jewish Canadians. In fact, soon we might have one of them, the unabashedly outspoken Avi Lewis, leading the federal NDP.
Meanwhile on the Israel-NYC axis…
And I think the Israelis would throw Jewish diaspora communities under the bus if it gains them more support from other groups who may be antisemitic. Have a problem with atisemitism? Come to Israel.
Probably not a realistic problem in Canada for the foreseeable future but it’s much more plausible someplaces.
yeah. i don’t like how the word “Semitic” has been co-opted to mean what it currently does