Well here’s something we never could have guessed:
January 2006 brought the shocking murder of French Jew Ilan Halimi. Bielski said Halimi’s mother has recently decided to bring her son’s remains to Israel for interment on the first anniversary of his death, next Friday in Jerusalem. “There is no doubt the recent Lebanon war and the Qana incident led to the most severe incidents in the past decade,” said Jewish Agency official Amos Hermon.
It turns out that dark talk of Jews poisoning Palestinians and running neocon conspiracies don’t just sound anti-Semitic – they also inspire anti-Semitism. And if it looks like anti-Semitism, and it acts like anti-Semitism, what’s the reason again for not calling it anti-Semitism? Oh that’s right – because then rabid anti-Semites couldn’t call themselves “anti-Zionists”, and excuse their vicious hatred with multiculturalist cant.
Yeah, it was anti-Zionism that got Ilan Halimi killed. “Legitimate criticism of Israel” is what the mostly Muslim immigrants who tortured him to death for three weeks were thinking about. Obviously. These are disgusting and pathetic excuses for the most vicious anti-Jewish violence.
Previously: Europe Refuses to Meet Commitments to Protect Israel, European Definition of Disproportionate – We Think We Get It, Europe Remembers the Holocaust
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