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Anti-Semitism and Anti-Apartheid State are two different things.

Today a friend brought me an unsolicited copy of the Sunday Times. He showed me a big article in the middle of it which basically said that the protests and criticism of Israel over Gaza was part of a rise of anti Semitism in Europe. I felt the shiver of sinister forces trying to shape public opinion to the now standard criticism of anything vaguely hostile to the apartheid Israeli state as anti-Semitism. A view which is and has been pushed and promoted by the Israeli state for a while now. The 1% look like they are lining up criticism of the apartheid state as some kind of race crime. The constant portrayal by the Israelis of a narrative of being under attack by "terrorists" is wearing a bit thin. They are the ones who have imprisoned a whole population of 2 million people mostly children under 17. We know that Israeli drones could tell what sort of weapons the Hamas unit that attacked the kibbutz from the tunnel were carrying. This was the reason they gave for being