When Is Criticism of Israel Anti-Semitic?
Undoubtedly, some anti-Semites have used today’s student protests across the United States as cover for stirring up hatred of anyone Jewish, irrespective of their views on what is happening in Gaza. But to characterize the protests as comparable to Nazi anti-Semitism, as Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has done, is grotesque.
MELBOURNE – Last month, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu condemned the protests on US campuses against his country’s attacks on Gaza, saying that they were “reminiscent of what happened in German universities in the 1930s.” He was, apparently, comparing the protesters to the Nazi student groups that beat up Jewish students and faculty.