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Originally Posted by jfman
I didn’t say Jews - mainly because that’s not what I mean as almost everyone knows.
It’s a helpful conflation for others to use - much as criticism of Israel gets routinely dismissed as antisemitism regardless of the facts.
Are you denying the existence of a pro-Israel lobby in the UK that actively campaigns to push policy initiatives on both major political parties that further the cause and interests of the Israeli state?
It's certainly a far more credible proposition than the Islamophobic slurs being banded around without evidence.
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Every cause has a lobby, but for any political party to be actually in the pocket of one of them is a serious enough charge. And, given Europe’s long and dark association with antisemitism and the tropes that come with it, accusing anyone of being
in the pocket of an Israeli lobby is an extremely serious charge whose historical resonances can’t easily be deflected with careful semantics.