Notice the point made in the interview with Omer Bartov posted here last night that seven out of eleven of the parts of the definition are there to shield the Israeli government from criticism. I hadn't heard this before I first criticized the IHRA definition a long time back, as soon as I read the text of it I could see what it was really about AND THAT IT WAS DANGEROUS to equate anti-zionism or even criticism of the crimes of the Israeli government with antisemitism BECAUSE IT TURNS ALL JEWS, THOSE WITHOUT ANY RESPONSIBILITY AT ALL AND EVEN OPPONENTS OF THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT INTO TARGETS.
Zionism has been a catastrophe propped up by this kind of dishonesty from before the self-declaration of the state of Israel. It is rapidly becoming more of a disaster as can be seen from the role it has played in everything from the lies told about the soccer hooligan started riot in Amsterdam toe part the Israeli genocide and annexation of Gaza played in reimposing Trump on us and the world. Anthony Blinken adopting the IHRA "definition" was only one of the disasters conducted by the State Department under his leadership. The entire disaster of the Israel-right-or-wrong policy of the Biden administration is the biggest and worst stain on what was, otherwise, the best administration since FDR's. Things are bound to get worse now as the Trump regime uses Blinken's adoption of that definition to suppress dissent over American support for the Nazi-equivalent policies of the Israeli government. And as resentment over that is suppressed, the pressure on it will grow ever worse and I'm very afraid that the innocent and even some of the not so innocent will be the victims of the very thing Blinken allegedly wanted to prevent by adopting it. I think the people who created that definition and adopted and promoted it have permanently lost credibility and respectability by doing it. And, as I said before, I had high regard for one of the most public of them which I can't say I do, now.
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