{"id":198879,"date":"2019-12-06T09:05:12","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T09:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=198879"},"modified":"2019-12-09T08:40:31","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T08:40:31","slug":"france-adopts-resolution-equating-anti-zionism-with-antisemitism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=198879","title":{"rendered":"France adopts resolution equating ‘anti-Zionism’ with ‘antisemitism’"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New Arab \u2013 Dec 3, 2019<\/h1>\n

France’s parliament<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a> voted late on Tuesday to adopt a definition of anti-semitism that includes anti-Zionism, prompting angery from activists who believe it will restrict legitimate criticisms of Israel<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

French lawmakers adopted the controversial bill, which was tabled by Paris MP Sylvain Maillard from Emmanuel Macron’s<\/strong><\/span><\/a> La Republique en Marche centrist party, with 154 votes against 72.<\/span><\/p>\n

The resolution adopts the definition issued by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), which states that some criticism of Israel could be anti-semitic.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Anti-Zionist acts can sometimes obscure anti-semitic realities,” the resolution says.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Criticising the very existence of Israel as a collective composed of Jewish citizens is tantamount to hatred towards the Jewish community as a whole; just like collectively holding Jews accountable for the policies of the Israeli authorities is an expression of antisemitism,” it adds.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Such abuses increasingly make anti-Zionism ‘one of the contemporary forms of antisemitism’ in the words of the president of the republic.”<\/span><\/p>\n

The resolution, like the IHRA definition, is careful to state that “pointing out such abuses in no way prevents otherwise free criticism of the Israeli government’s policies and positions”.<\/span><\/p>\n

Critics – which include the government’s human rights watchdog the Commission nationale consultative des droits de l’homme – believe this claim is questionable.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dozens of Jewish intellectuals slammed the new French bill saying it “delegitimises the legitimate act of criticising the state of Israel”, France 24<\/em> reported.<\/span><\/p>\n

James Cohen, a Jewish professor at the Universit\u00e9 Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris was one of 127 signatories of the petition, which he dubbed as “problematic”.<\/span><\/p>\n

“[\u2026] by equating antizionism with anti-Semitism, you’re broadening the definition of antisemitism too much [\u2026] you’re going very far afield,” he said in an interview to France 24<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Some of the people out there who oppose the policies of the state of Israel, who may even oppose the existence of the state of Israel, might also be anti-Semitic [\u2026] but that should not delegitimise the legitimate act of criticising the policies of the state of Israel,” he added.<\/span><\/p>\n

“And when it comes to the existence of the state of Israel, there are questions that need to be asked whether a one-state solution or a two-state solution could be viable. Why should this discussion not be open?”<\/span><\/p>\n

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