“Faced with anti-Semitism, the appropriate response will not be the criminalization of anti-Zionism” | EUROtoday

Lhe explosion of anti-Semitic acts requires, like all racist acts, a powerful social response. This can’t emerge both from the denial of the hazard it represents, nor from a penal coverage that’s divisive and infringing on public freedoms.

Far from contributing to constructing a social consensus across the struggle in opposition to anti-Semitism, the proposed legislation [de la députée Caroline Yadan apparentée Renaissance] “aiming to fight against renewed forms of anti-Semitism”, examined at first studying within the National Assembly [lundi 26 janvier]contributes to weakening it by reinforcing the logic of confusion already at work. It contributes to opposing the struggle in opposition to anti-Semitism and solidarity with the Palestinians – an opposition already largely fueled by actors from each the left and the appropriate and whose social results are deleterious.

It is clearly straightforward to see {that a} sure variety of anti-Semitic speeches, drawing on deeply racist imaginations, try to flee social condemnation in addition to prison condemnation by presenting themselves as merely “anti-Zionists”. This is the case with speeches which lend to “Zionists” or to the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions of France (CRIF) an exorbitant energy over governments, which see in Zionism the last word rationalization of the world’s misfortunes, or which attribute demonic powers to the State of Israel – some even recycle outdated anti-Semitic myths, corresponding to ritual crime or the poisoning of wells, by presenting them as a easy criticism of the State of Israel.

Dangerous repressive vagueness

The dissemination of anti-Semitic themes in fact doesn’t advance the struggle in opposition to the insurance policies of the Israeli authorities, nor the anti-colonial trigger, nor does it contribute to placing an finish to the massacres in Palestine. It have to be condemned with out reservation by unions, collectives, organizations and left-wing political events, in order that solidarity with the Palestinians just isn’t diverted by a racist agenda.

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