{"id":60146,"date":"2018-03-25T17:00:28","date_gmt":"2018-03-25T15:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=60146"},"modified":"2018-03-22T16:33:23","modified_gmt":"2018-03-22T14:33:23","slug":"18-00-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=60146","title":{"rendered":"Demonizing Israel is Anti-Semitism, Declares Macedonia"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>Demonizing Israel is Anti-Semitism, Declares Macedonia<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

United with Israel Staff<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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PM Netanyahu and PM Zoran Zaev of Macedonia. (Haim Zach\/ GPO)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Macedonia recently became the latest country to acknowledge that \u201canti-Israel\u201d is often just a convenient disguise for old fashioned anti-Semitism.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not anti-Semitic, I just oppose Israel.\u201d This is a common refrain in settings in which the Jewish state is demonized and held to a different standard than other nations. Increasingly, however, countries in Europe are adopting definitions of anti-Semitism that include anti-Israel bias and unfair condemnation.<\/span><\/p>\n

Macedonia is one of the most recent nations to adopt an anti-Semitism definition that incorporates demonization of Israel. This week, the Balkan nation memorialized Macedonian Jews who were deported during the Holocaust, marking the 75th anniversary of this tragedy.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to the World Jewish Congress, Macedonia is honoring the occasion by adopting the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance\u2019s (IHRA) anti-Semitism definition, which will be followed next month by the opening of the Holocaust Memorial Center for the Jews of Macedonia.<\/span><\/p>\n

Almost the entire population of Macedonia\u2019s more than 10,000 Jews were killed in Treblinka, a Nazi death camp in Poland, after Bulgarian forces deported them with the Nazis\u2019 approval.<\/span><\/p>\n

In adopting this anti-Semitism definition, Macedonia joined the United Kingdom, Romania, Bulgaria, and the European Parliament, all of whom use this formulation of anti-Semitism.<\/span><\/p>\n

The European Union\u2019s official body for fighting antisemitism shockingly removed this definition from its website. According to a report in the the Jerusalem Post, pro-Palestinian activists lobbied the EU to pull the definition, with the EU telling JTA in 2013 that the definition was never official. Israel protested the EU\u2019s move.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to the IHRA definition, anti-Semitism \u201cmight include the targeting of the State of Israel, conceived as a Jewish collective,\u201d though \u201ccriticism of Israel similar to that leveled against any other country cannot be regarded as anti-Semitic.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Throughout Europe, Jews are targeted for harassment and violence by anti-Israel individuals and groups whose \u201cnew anti-Semitism\u201d frequently hides behind the veneer of \u201cpolitical protests\u201d against the Jewish state.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Demonizing Israel is Anti-Semitism, Declares Macedonia United with Israel Staff PM Netanyahu and PM Zoran Zaev of Macedonia. (Haim Zach\/ GPO) Macedonia recently became the latest country to acknowledge that \u201canti-Israel\u201d is often just a convenient disguise for old fashioned anti-Semitism. \u201cI\u2019m not anti-Semitic, I just oppose Israel.\u201d This is a common refrain in settings […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[26,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60146"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60146"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60164,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60146\/revisions\/60164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}