Loading ...Anti-Semitism and the freedom movement
Anti-Zionism has long been a prerequisite for, indeed a proof of, progressive liberal anti-racist credentials. Yet the simple fact is that Israeli laws enshrine equality between races, religions and sexes in a way that is not even conceivable in a theocratic Islamic state.
So we challenge those who promulgate anti-Zionism to ask themselves why they have so eagerly fallen for prejudices and smears generated by the very organisations that they are otherwise so sceptical about?
We ask them why anyone who accepts or believes that Israel has the right to exist is labelled as ‘pro-Israel’ as though it were a crime and is therefore part of a Zionist conspiracy to take over the world. What or who is the basis for it?
There is little doubt that the many of those in the freedom movement on Twitter are convinced that the BBC and other MSM are totally pro-Israel and are therefore using the inverse of our argument – that the media is promoting a pro-Israel narrative just as it promoted pro-lockdown, pro-vaccines and pro-Ukraine war narratives and for the same reasons. But there are serious problems with this knee jerk analysis.
Laws are not always followed, not in Israel, Canada, the US, or many other “democracies”.
There are laws, then there is what really occurs. I would have thought that under Canadian law, the Peace Convoy (and the unvaxxed) would never have been attacked the way it was, that our bank accounts would never have been frozen, and that the protestors would not have been labeled and treated as criminals.