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Jim Patterson 🇨🇦The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA) were pretty quick in labelling new @ndp leader @avilewis as antisemetic, apparently due to his consistent stance labelling Israel's actions against Gaza a genocide and his support for the Palestinian cause.
This seems to be following the usual Israeli messaging, that any criticism of Israel is ipso facto antisemitic. Having been to two of his rallies there was nothing in his speech against Judaism in general (he's Jewish himself). The only clue in the CIJA statement was: "When a leader declares that Zionism is inseparable from ethnic cleansing, he is not engaging in legitimate policy critique. He is telling Jewish Canadians that a core part of their identity is illegitimate. ".
So, their position is that Zionism is a core part of Judaism and anyone opposing the Gaza genocide is antisemitic. Zionism (as a justification for Israel's genocide) certainly seems like ethnic cleansing. Is that a core part of Judaism?
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/47e14988ee9a721e5c79e5557d3c84ac608683b2395ee901b2ff0e6a2dffa335/MAFJ4QL6W5FHHPAKMQY7ZFT64A/
Netraven@SheamusPatt @ndp @avilewis Shouldn't Jewish people in diaspora probably fight back harder against antisemitic claims by Israel?
Wouldn't it be in the Jewish community's best interest to demand Jewish people abroad not be used as scapegoats by allowing antisemitism claims to be mixed up with anti-Zionism? They are two entirely different things, are they not?