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Linda Heard | sierra12th@yahoo.co.uk
Now even the United Nations Human Rights Council is anti-Semitic. Well, thats the view of Israels Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz, who is outraged that the body rubber-stamped the Goldstone Report on war crimes committed in Gaza. Some years ago, that accusation would have had enormous shock-value, whereas, nowadays, the label has been so propagandized the only thing it elicits is a yawn.
Anti-Semitism is a genuine scourge on humankind in the same that racism and bigotry are and should be eradicated, but Israel is in danger of devaluing the term by attaching it to anyone who doesnt agree with its policies. Moreover, when used loosely as an insult, it doesnt help Israels cause or standing in the world.
On the contrary, terming anti-Semitic the 25 member states that voted to back the reports recommendations, last Friday, will make them even more determined to see Israel before the International Criminal Court. And it is worth remembering that two, Russia and China, hold veto-power in the UN Security Council.
When Israeli officials have to resort to name-calling and evocation of the Holocaust as Israels Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently did during an address to the UN General Assembly, it signifies that they are losing the argument.
It seems that Haaretz columnist Gideon Levy is of like mind. Netanyahu cheapened the memory of the Holocaust in his speech to the UN General Assembly he wrote. He did so twice. Once, when he brandished proof of the very existence of the Holocaust, as if it needed any, and again when he compared Hamas to the Nazis. Read More
Now even the United Nations Human Rights Council is anti-Semitic. Well, thats the view of Israels Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz, who is outraged that the body rubber-stamped the Goldstone Report on war crimes committed in Gaza. Some years ago, that accusation would have had enormous shock-value, whereas, nowadays, the label has been so propagandized the only thing it elicits is a yawn.
Anti-Semitism is a genuine scourge on humankind in the same that racism and bigotry are and should be eradicated, but Israel is in danger of devaluing the term by attaching it to anyone who doesnt agree with its policies. Moreover, when used loosely as an insult, it doesnt help Israels cause or standing in the world.
On the contrary, terming anti-Semitic the 25 member states that voted to back the reports recommendations, last Friday, will make them even more determined to see Israel before the International Criminal Court. And it is worth remembering that two, Russia and China, hold veto-power in the UN Security Council.
When Israeli officials have to resort to name-calling and evocation of the Holocaust as Israels Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently did during an address to the UN General Assembly, it signifies that they are losing the argument.
It seems that Haaretz columnist Gideon Levy is of like mind. Netanyahu cheapened the memory of the Holocaust in his speech to the UN General Assembly he wrote. He did so twice. Once, when he brandished proof of the very existence of the Holocaust, as if it needed any, and again when he compared Hamas to the Nazis. Read More
