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I find it hilarious that this opinion piece is in The Guardian given that it's one of the newspapers which most weaponized anti-semitism accusations in their campaign against Jeremy Corbyn when he was leader of the Labour party some years ago, to the point of accusing a Jewish Holocaust Survivor of being an anti-semite (for, as member of a panel in a conference for Palestine, comparing the actions of Israel to those of the Nazis) in order to slander Corbyn by association (as he was in the same panel).

In fact the very same person who wrote this article was part of that very same campaign: here's one of her articles back then slandering as anti-semitic the Labour party when led by Jeremy Corbyn

These sleazy hypocrites' problem isn't the weaponizing of accusations of anti-semitism, it's that the ethno-Fascist populists in Israel aren't doing it in a posh contained way like they would and instead are just firing it out indiscriminately, so the use of accusations of anti-semitism for political ends is losing its potency.

A population so illiterate or distracted to allow the bastardization of words to the point they no longer have meaning is foundational to fascism.

The attempt to call out words losing their meaning here is a little ironic when you put alleged in front of war crimes in this context.

I understand that in cases where you would want to avoid being sued but in this case: "rejected outright the warrants for alleged war crimes"

The warrant is for war crimes, the warrant is not alleging, the warrant is accusing, therefore you can safely claim he was issued a warrant for war crimes without trying to do this did they or didn't they bullshit the media keeps on doing.

There is enough public evidence to wrap this shit up in seconds.

This isn't news; they've been doing it for decades. Maybe you could say the transformation of the word is fully complete now that it's just a jewish-flavored "fake news".

Meanwhile, the far right is taking advantage of the political crisis brought about by Israel’s world-changing war, alternately using actual antisemitism and a pretence of caring about antisemitism to advance its bigoted ideology. [...] several people I spoke to told me they were afraid to even ask about antisemitism, for fear that this might itself be construed as antisemitism.

Yes, antisemitism has become a tool for witch hunting. And just like the boy who cried wolf protected the wolves, the State of Israel crying "antisemite" is protecting bigots with an antisemitic discourse.

But of course the State of Israel gives no fucks. It is not really on the side of the global Jewish population. Or even on the side of the Israelis. All States have this thing, where they stop being a tool for their populations and treat their populations as a tool, in a sickening inversion of morals.

The ICC has not in any way connected the crimes they allege to Judaism, but Netanyahu et al have. They're the ones who have asserted an inherent connection between those policies and Jewishness, and they're the ones who have assigned support for, and thus responsibility for, those policies to Jews universally.

So they are in fact, and rather obviously, antisemites.

Tl;dr Israel deserves death.

Netanyahu is an antisemite

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

Always has been

Antizionist here, fwiw.