Tag: Unfounded allegations of anti-Semitism

NOVANEWS Unfounded allegations of anti-Semitism cover up Israeli apartheid Jeff Handmaker Luciana Berger during a press conference where she announced her resignation along with a group of six other Labour MPs. Photo credit: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire. In the small, American Jewish community where I grew up, I never heard criticisms of Israel, or experienced anti-Semitism. And yet I was frequently reminded by my Hebrew and Sunday school teachers of the anti-Semitic hatred that Jews had endured throughout the ages, and especially during the holocaust. My grandmother explained, sometimes tearfully, how her family had lost touch with cousins, aunts and uncles in the “old country” during the Second World War, never to hear from them again. But the narrative did not end there. Israel, I was...