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Macron: – Anti-Semitism is a modern form of anti-Semitism

Feb 22, 2019
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Anti-Semitism is on the rise in France – which is why the French government will try to end the problem by using the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of what anti-Semitism is. In addition, the government will propose the adoption of a law to combat hate speech on the Internet – says French President Emmanuel Macron. Macron also emphasizes that anti-Zionism – that is, being against the state of Israel – is a form of anti-Semitism.

Macron made the above statements during an annual dinner with a French-Jewish organization. Macron also pointed out that France and other European countries are experiencing “a resurgence of anti-Semitism, which has probably not been seen since World War II,” writes the newspaper, Yedioth Ahronoth.

Macron said the introduction of a working definition of what anti-Semitism is could help police, judges and teachers in their daily work.

The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s 2016 wording states, among other things: “denial of the Jewish people’s right to self-determination – for example, by claiming that the state of Israel’s existence is racist” is an example of anti-Semitism. President Macron agrees with that wording.

Critics of Israel, however, have stated that the wording can be used to oppress Palestinian rights activists.

– Anti-Zionism is one of the modern forms of anti-Semitism. It is hatred of Jews that lies behind the denial of Israel’s right to exist, Macron said. Macron also mentioned anti-Semitism based on “radical Islamism” as a violent ideology gaining ground in France’s multi-ethnic, impoverished neighborhoods.

A few days ago, 90 Jewish graves were vandalized, overwritten with swastikas and anti-Semitic slogans. President Macron showed his respect by visiting a Jewish cemetery in the village of Quatzenheim in eastern France. France 3 television, which broadcast the visit on Facebook – stated that they were forced to shorten the broadcast to their more than 1.3 million Facebook users because they had been inundated with anti-Semitic comments and death threats against Macron and the Jewish community.

It lives approx. 500,000 Jews in France, surpassed only by Israel and the United States, where the Jewish population is larger.


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  • “Netanyahu: – Anti-Zionism is no different than anti-Semitism” (November 28, 2018)


Source

Original article: “Macron: – Anti-Zionism is a modern form of anti-Semitism” Translated by Rika Greenberg.

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