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Originally Posted by BigElCat
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The reporting above is that the bill would make law a 'working' definition of antisemitism from a Holocaust remembrance group. "The definition includes denying Jewish people their right to self-determination by claiming that the State of Israel is a racist state and drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis." If you said either of those things you'd be guilty of prohibited advocacy of antisemitism, and run afoul of anti-discrimination law. Goes too far. Israel can have a 'right' to exist without being racist. The claim that the Nazi comparison is a hateful slander, like all slander claims, is defeated if it is true.
Is example of using the PR value of Holocaust rememberance to achieve political goals.
BTW, the bit about Arabs being Semites is a bit silly. Has nothing to do with the understood definition of anti-Semitism.