L. Goudsmit. This important article was written by my Italian friend, Prof. Renato Cristin, who teaches philosophical hermeneutics at the University of Trieste.
I translated it for him and think it should be distributed as widely as possible. I am so sick of hearing liberal Jews trying to defend the absurd notion that being anti-Israel is not antisemitic. Of course it is antisemitic! Renato created the brilliant term functional antisemitism which exposes the absurdity in two words.
by Renato Cristin 4.29.2021
On one thing, the recent report by Human Rights Watch dedicated to Israel is right: “a threshold has been crossed”. Yes, one limit has been crossed, or rather two, but it is Human Rights Watch itself that has exceeded them: on the one hand, its report goes beyond the limits of the caricature and the grotesque (which is inadmissible for an organization accredited to the UN), presenting a political and social reality through the distorting lens of pro-Palestinian, pro-Islamic and anti-Zionist ideology; on the other hand, the border that divides criticism of the work of the State of Israel from antisemitism as the result of an action, an analysis or an opinion has been crossed. Yes, this relationship has introduced a new level: it cleared that form of anti-Israeli and anti-Jewish hatred that I call functional antisemitism.
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