If current apologists for Likud style fascism want to come up with a name to call those who oppose it, they should come up with one, not borrow a word that means something else. I would recommend that anti-fascists reject whatever they come up with. It's insane to allow your opponents the chance to name you when it's the fans of fascism.
Using "antisemtism" to shield Israeli fascism has the bizarre consequence of accusing many, many Jews who oppose fascism of being "antisemites" Noam Chomsky, for example. In the case of people it's used against such as Norman Finkelstein, they use it for a child of survivors of the Shoah, in the case of the late Israel Shahak. it was and is used against a Jewish survivor of the Shoah, a citizen of Israel. That, alone, should tell you why it's a grotesquely dishonest thing for them to try to use that word, INVENTED BY A JEW HATER as a tool of political ass-covering for the same general thing, fascism.
As I pointed out, the word "antisemitsm" was a word invented by a Jew hater. It's stupid to claim that "Jews get to define it" because it had its definition given to it in the late 19th century.
Update: I just advised against letting lying fans of fascism define you, I'm not going to give into that from the ass end of that goon squad as issuing from Eschaton. It's not as if anyone there will read what I said, they don't read anything much. As I mentioned the fine lefty blogger who went by the name "Roger Ailes" once asked about those who posted comments on blogs that didn't use text, "What the hell do they use, rebuses?" I doubt he realized that his friend Atrios would give him the answer, appeals for funding.
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