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Old 06-11-2019, 02:12 PM #41
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The whole idea that saying anything critical of Israel is anti-semitic is just a way of silencing voices speaking out against the government and the administration that run it. You can criticise Trump without being xenophobic against the US, you can criticise the Tories without being anti-UK etc.

Accusing someone of being anti-semitic based on nothing is quite low and it undercuts the suffering of Jews by turning it into a cheap weapon to silence people with valid views. Critcising the human rights abuse that the Israel government have carried out against Palestinian citizens is not the same as hating jews and it's just incredibly bad faith to make it out to be.
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