By Hypothetical News reporter, Ifit Wereso
The Coalition for Naming Injustice (CNI) has recently issued guidelines on how to respond to the guidelines on antisemitism issued by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA). In its “working definition of antisemitism” (presumably designated as “working” such that, should these definitions be successfully shown as unfounded and politically motivated, it can be reviewed and amended without loss of face), the IHRA has advised, and some would argue all but decreed, that “drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis” is antisemitic.
The CNI had this to say in a statement issued today with regard to the increasingly difficult task of trying to avoid comparisons between Israel and Nazi Germany:
“We advise that, though it is difficult in the face of what we see being done to Palestinians by Israel, for the time being campaigners for justice for Palestinians should leave comparisons of Israel to Nazi Germany to Israelis and Jews themselves, of which there are an increasing number (Israel’s Government Has neo-Nazi Ministers. It Really Does Recall Germany in 1933 ; Ex-IDF general likens military control of West Bank to Nazi Germany)
“We further advise that in order to avoid false accusation under the IHRA’s weaponised form of antisemitism, those campaigning against Israeli apartheid occupation, oppression, and genocide simply refer to Israel as a nasty state. Few who are familiar with justice will disagree this is an apt description of a state that, as Israeli journalist Gideon Levy says, “treats Palestinians like animals”. And that it is, as a result, a very nasty state indeed.
At the time of writing, nearly 20,000 Palestinians, among them 8000 children and 5000 women, have been murdered by the Israeli Offensive Forces in Gaza.