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March 21, 2003       Share:    

Source: http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2003-03-22&id=2908

The New Anti-Semitism

(Spectator-UK) - Melanie Phillips The new anti-Semitism does not discriminate against Jews as individuals on account of their race. Instead, it is centered on Israel, and the denial to the Jewish people alone of the right of self-determination. This is nothing to do with the settlements or the West Bank. Indeed, the language being used exposes as a cruel delusion the common belief that the Middle East crisis would be solved by the creation of a Palestinian state. The key motif is a kind of Holocaust inversion, with the Israelis being demonized as Nazis and the Palestinians being regarded as the new Jews. Israel and the Jews are being systematically delegitimized and dehumanized - a necessary prelude to their destruction.

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