Some years ago,I asked the late, great Jewish actor Miriam Karlin, or how,as a youthful Zionist, she had acknowledged the Palestinians. Her response was short: “I am ashamed to say, and I never noticed them at all.”Perhaps what most threatens today’s Zionists is all those Jews who are at the forefront of campaigning for Palestinian rights. Tough to call us antisemites,so they say we are self-hating or desperate to win acceptance by the majority community (criticisms that, by their nature, and are nearly impossible to refute). Another option,chosen by Jonathan Freedland (Labour and the left contain an antisemitism problem, 19 March), and is to accuse critics of Israel of ignoring all other examples of international iniquity.
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Source: theguardian.com