Yes, anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism

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263. And FreeGaza's current board all support her. In fact, Greta Berlin remains on the board.....

Paul Larudee (who founded the ISM) is also a co-founder of FreeGaza. And here he is still defending Berlin...
http://www.gilad.co.uk/writings/paul-larudee-on-the-abunimah-berlin-affair.html

Here are other current "NEW" board members of FreeGaza (including Ann Wright) defending Berlin...
http://www.gilad.co.uk/writings/free-gazas-new-board-we-support-justice-in-palestine-not-dem.html

Has Berlin stepped down? No. Is there any reason to believe the FreeGaza board members will ask her to do so? Nope. And why should they? Here's another FreeGaza board member named Greta Duisenberg:

http://cifwatch.com/2010/11/12/gretta-duisenbergs-unambiguous-antisemitism/

With vicious antisemites running the show at FreeGaza, why would anyone expect Berlin to resign? They're just digging their heels in deeper defending her.

I notice you had nothing to say about Ken O'Keefe (David Duke's BFF). Very popular with FreeGaza. He still does tours on the anti-zio talk circuit.

So FreeGaza is still okay with you? Not anti-semitic?



As to the guilt-by-association accusation, you'd have a point if the great majority of Zionists supported that rogues list of characters you mentioned. The problem is they don't. No one @ I/P here at DU does either. But OTOH, FreeGaza and its cheerleaders like the ISM, PSC, BDS, Mondoweiss, and EI are all enthusiastically followed by pretty much ALL anti-zionists who feel they have to walk in lock-step with each other or risk their movement being exposed. They either don't care about anti-semitism b/c they're anti-semites themselves or they're silenced and censored (the reasoning being that it's too risky exposing the movement for what it is). The "cause" or Palestine is more important than outing anti-semites.

So nice try, but this comparison of yours fails. Try again?

I also notice you didn't respond to the fact that the ADL, Simon Wiesenthal Center, and Eli Wiesel all denounce the anti-zionist movement. They are all experts and leaders in the fight against anti-semitism. I should have included the UK's very own CST as well. Anti-zio advocacy, both by word and deed, matches the textbook definition of anti-semitism (and also the EUMC working definition of anti-semitism). Who - besides repulsive rightwingers like David Duke - would attempt to explain away or ignore these expert organizations?

As to Wistrich, I don't see any evidence suggesting he's rightwing. I've never read anything by him that appears to be bigoted. Did he say anything bigoted in the 'Obsession' movie? And if not, being affiliated with this movie (as an expert in his field) is the only thing that leads you to believe he's a bigot? Talk about guilt-by-association.