Thread by @elderofziyon

No, @peterbeinart, it isn't "safetyism", it is fact.

Simple question: Is calling Israel a Nazi state antisemitic?

It obviously is, as it is meant to portray JEWS as Nazis with delicious irony. No one calls Syria a Nazi state.

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@PeterBeinart *Strictly speaking" that statement isn't traditional antisemitism. Yet anyone with a brain knows it is, and I presume you are included there.

Most unfair criticism of Israel is the same - it is thinly veiled criticism of Jews. "Zionists own Congress and the media." Come on.
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@PeterBeinart So where do you draw the line? that's exactly what @TheIHRA definition does, which your friends at @jstreetdotorg disagree so strongly with. Even though it says EXPLICITLY that criticism of Israel similar to criticism of all other states is NOT antisemitic.
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@PeterBeinart @TheIHRA @jstreetdotorg NOBODY says every criticism of Israel is antisemitic. But your anti-Zionist friends make that claim that Zionists do to deflect the obvious, that they would never make the same criticisms against any other nation doing the same thing Israel does.

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@PeterBeinart @TheIHRA @jstreetdotorg "Debating the merits of anti-Zionism"? If one's attitude is that the Jewish state is the only illegitimate state , or that it is worse than the worst authoritarian states, then indeed that person is antisemitic. They are dressing up their antisemitism in trendy clothes...
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@PeterBeinart @TheIHRA @jstreetdotorg ...which is what all previous flavors of antisemitism have done.

For whatever bizarre reason, you want to defend those who loathe the Jewish state. That sort of obsessive hate is only seen in bigots.

Your criticism of Israel is not antisemitic. But you know some is. /end

@PeterBeinart @TheIHRA @jstreetdotorg The irony is that while Peter claims that the right is shutting down debate - he blocks me, and would never answer this in a million years.