Forget the anti-Semitism fallacy, let’s focus on the Palestinians
NOVANEWS
By Blake Alcott*
Speaking to Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on 16 July 2017, French President Emmanuel Macron repeated the slogan that anti-Zionism is anti-Semitic. According to Macron, anti-Zionist and anti-Israel expressions are “a new type of anti- Semitism”. We hear this almost daily, and pretty soon one of us anti-Zionists will land in jail for arguing that only a democratic, Palestinian state in Palestine has a right to exist there.
Only a few decades ago, and only for a few decades, Zionism proclaimed by many as racist, but now, according to Mr Macron, the allegation is that it is anti-Zionism that is racist.
There is, however, a large logical flaw in the argument that believing Israel should be replaced by a democracy is anti-Semitic: the anti-Zionist positi...