"What 'Israel’s right to exist' means in practice
In practice, the phrase “Israel’s right to exist” has been repeatedly deployed by Israel’s cheerleaders across the West to justify Israel’s crimes - from occupation and colonisation to apartheid and, now, mass destruction in Gaza.
It is also telling what is not said. The Essentials do not prohibit racism in general, despite later rejecting 'all forms of discrimination'. There is no explicit rejection of Islamophobia, for example, or anti-Arab racism.
Instead, 'oppose all forms of antisemitism' is fused directly with 'support the right of Israel to exist.'
That conflation matters.
Because we know that defenders of Israel have repeatedly blurred the line between antisemitism and opposition to the actions of the Israeli state."
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