A German court in Wuppertal held last month that an arson attack on a synagogue causing fire damage was not anti-Semitism but political expression. Also in February, five youths who vandalised 300 Jewish graves and a Holocaust monument in Alsace, France, claimed that the action was not motivated by anti-Semitism. In general, an attack specifically targeting Chinese would be considered anti-Chinese. Only in an exceptional case, it might not be. Why is the exceptional case becoming the rule for Jews, so that targeting Jews as a group is generally not anti-Jewish but “political”? Legal artifice is being constructed to make false distinctions between unpalatable anti-Semitism and kosher anti-Zionism.
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Rose, G. L. (2015). Anti-Zionism in the courts is not kosher law. The Conversation, (19 March),