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The term ‘antisemitism’ is being weaponised and stripped of meaning – and that’s incredibly dangerous (www.theguardian.com)

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When the international criminal court issued arrest warrants for Israeli officials in November, the response from the country’s government was all too familiar. The prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, rejected outright the warrants for alleged war crimes in Gaza against him and the former defence minister Yoav Gallant, calling them “an antisemitic decision”. The ultranationalist national security adviser, Itamar Ben-Gvir, declared that the court had shown “once again that it is antisemitic through and through”. And the transport minister, Miri Regev, chimed in, claiming: “This is modern antisemitism in the guise of justice.”

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Labour adopting the IHRA in full was part of this weaponisation.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

And this specific lady who has written this article was part of the people who back then helped bring down Corbyn with a slander campaign accusing him and the party under his leadership of being anti-semitic and pushed for the Labour Party to adopt that definition of anti-semitism which defines criticism of Israel as being a form of anti-semitism.

(And those paying attention might notice how the present day Labour Party, now in the hands of the faction which oppose Corbyn, and which is now in Government, are still sending weapons to Israel)

People like her and The Guardian, now crying crocodile tears, are part of the problem.