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August 22, 2018

Calling Israel a “Settler-Colonial Project” Is Itself Anti-Semitic

The problem with Jeremy Corbyn’s defenders.

When defenders of Jeremy Corbyn—the British Labor party’s Israel-hating, terrorist-loving leader—confront the accusation that he is anti-Semitic, or excessively tolerant of anti-Semites, they usually employ one of two tactics, Ben Cohen notes. The first is to insist that Corbyn is the victim of a nefarious Jewish conspiracy to smear and discredit him with mendacious allegations. More insidious, however, is the second: to insist that Corbyn’s accusers are falsely labeling rational criticism of Israel as anti-Semitism, or blurring the lines between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism. Taking Professor Ian Almond as one example, Cohen writes:

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