Shulamit Aloni on Israel using the holocaust and anti-semitism
Shulamit Aloni, an Israeli politician and once Minister of Education, was interviewed by Amy Goodman of DemocracyNow many years ago. Goodman asked her: Often when there is dissent expressed in the United States against policies of the Israeli government, people here are called antisemitic. What is your response to that as an Israeli Jew?
To that Aloni responded as follows:
Well, it’s a trick, we always use it. When from Europe somebody is criticizing Israel, then we bring up the holocaust. When in this country people are criticizing Israel, then they are antisemitic. And the organization is strong and has a lot of money, and the ties between Israel and American Jewish establishment are very strong, and they are strong in this country, as you know. They have power, which it’s okay. They are talented people and they have power, money, and media and other things. And their attitude is, “Israel, my country, right or wrong.” And they are not ready to hear criticism. And it’s very easy to blame people who criticize certain acts of the Israeli government as antisemitic and to bring up the holocaust and the suffering of the Jewish people, and that is justify everything we do to the Palestinians.
For a videoclip of this part of the interview, look on Archive.org or YouTube.
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