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France's National Assembly voted 154-72 to recognize anti-Zionism as a form of antisemitism, in a sad display of the international push to silence legitimate dissent with Israel's policies. Antisemitism is illegal in France, and punishable by prison sentence. The original bill presented in February included the possibility of prison sentences for people who criticize Israel. I'm not sure if the bill that passed this week kept criminal sentences in place, as virtually no American mainstream media news site is reporting on the story.
New French bill equating anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism ‘is going very far afield’
The idea for the bill was over 4 decades in the making, being first proposed to a wide audience by Knesset member Abba Eban in 1973 through the World Jewish Congress. Eban wrote back then,
"Let there be no mistake: the new left is the author and the progenitor of the new anti-Semitism. One of the chief tasks of any dialogue with the Gentile world is to prove that the distinction between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism is not a distinction at all. Anti-Zionism is merely the new anti-Semitism."
New antisemitism - Wikipedia
The idea of outlawing criticism of a country that the UN consistently calls on the carpet for human rights violations would have been absolutely laughed at in France when the Knesset member was writing that back in 1973, but decades of lobbying has radically changed things. Macron Tweeted "Jews are France, they make France" Tuesday, after 'somebody' spray painted swastikas on Jewish graves in one of France's most Jewish cities, Strasbourg.
The vandals are clearly not spring chickens, considering how they spray painted the name of a long-defunct far right wing organization, known as the Black Wolves at one of the gravesites. The Black Wolves were active in France primarily during the 1970s, and aren't even in existence today.
France anti-Semitism: Jewish graves defaced with Nazi swastikas - BBC News
The vandalism in Strasbourg on Tuesday mirrors a nearly identical incident in February, when a parliamentary commission attempted to pass the initial bill. Yep...more swastikas on Jewish graves in Strasbourg.
Bill equating anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism sparks debate in France
New French bill equating anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism ‘is going very far afield’
The idea for the bill was over 4 decades in the making, being first proposed to a wide audience by Knesset member Abba Eban in 1973 through the World Jewish Congress. Eban wrote back then,
"Let there be no mistake: the new left is the author and the progenitor of the new anti-Semitism. One of the chief tasks of any dialogue with the Gentile world is to prove that the distinction between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism is not a distinction at all. Anti-Zionism is merely the new anti-Semitism."
New antisemitism - Wikipedia
The idea of outlawing criticism of a country that the UN consistently calls on the carpet for human rights violations would have been absolutely laughed at in France when the Knesset member was writing that back in 1973, but decades of lobbying has radically changed things. Macron Tweeted "Jews are France, they make France" Tuesday, after 'somebody' spray painted swastikas on Jewish graves in one of France's most Jewish cities, Strasbourg.
The vandals are clearly not spring chickens, considering how they spray painted the name of a long-defunct far right wing organization, known as the Black Wolves at one of the gravesites. The Black Wolves were active in France primarily during the 1970s, and aren't even in existence today.
France anti-Semitism: Jewish graves defaced with Nazi swastikas - BBC News
The vandalism in Strasbourg on Tuesday mirrors a nearly identical incident in February, when a parliamentary commission attempted to pass the initial bill. Yep...more swastikas on Jewish graves in Strasbourg.
Bill equating anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism sparks debate in France