Whatever quarrels one might have with Senator Bernie Sanders, his thinking would seem to be immune from medieval anti-Semitic influence. Yet last month, after Sanders denounced “the Netanyahu government’s extermination of Gaza,” the pro-Israel group AIPAC attacked Sanders’s statement as a “hate-filled rant” and “despicable blood libel.”
Extraordinary claims—such as the charge that the Jewish senator from Vermont is anti-Semitic to the point of spreading ancient slanders against his own people—require extraordinary evidence. Yet large segments of the conservative and even centrist wings of the American pro-Israel movement have whipped themselves into such a frenzy of paranoia that they are making accusations like this without much effort at justification.
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If being against Israel is antisemitic, then so is being against Palestine, since both are from Semitic culture; with Palestinians being part of the largest group of the Semitic people and Israelis one of the smallest.
We just don’t use that term anymore as it’s more associated with an era of old history, not modern day languages or cultures.
Your explanation is antisemitic. Because… Fuck you, that’s why!