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The term ‘antisemitism’ is being weaponised and stripped of meaning – and that’s incredibly dangerous (www.theguardian.com)

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When the international criminal court issued arrest warrants for Israeli officials in November, the response from the country’s government was all too familiar. The prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, rejected outright the warrants for alleged war crimes in Gaza against him and the former defence minister Yoav Gallant, calling them “an antisemitic decision”. The ultranationalist national security adviser, Itamar Ben-Gvir, declared that the court had shown “once again that it is antisemitic through and through”. And the transport minister, Miri Regev, chimed in, claiming: “This is modern antisemitism in the guise of justice.”

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[–] WatDabney@fedia.io 18 points 1 year ago

The ICC has not in any way connected the crimes they allege to Judaism, but Netanyahu et al have. They're the ones who have asserted an inherent connection between those policies and Jewishness, and they're the ones who have assigned support for, and thus responsibility for, those policies to Jews universally.

So they are in fact, and rather obviously, antisemites.