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To: Win Smith who wrote (118700)	11/5/2003 11:56:13 PM
From: Jacob Snyder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<Where, exactly, did I make an "anti-Zionist" statement?> Israel = Zionism = Jews That's the way they see it. To criticize one, is to criticize all of them. So, criticizing Israeli policy (like their treatment of Palestinians), is the same as being anti-Zionist (a small stretch), and evidence of anti-Semitism (the big stretch). This is made very clear, by looking at the controversy over that recent poll in Europe, in which Israel won the Gold Medal for Greatest Threat To World Peace (the U.S., Iran, and N. Korea in a 3-way tie for the silver medal). The question was asked, about Israel. Not Zionism. Not Jews. But the poll results were interpreted, and condemned, as anti-semitic. The European public was condemned, the EU's European Commission was condemned for conducting the poll, the European media were condemned. It would even be anti-semitic to suggest that Israeli policy might be to blame for Israel's bad public image: "We are not only sad but outraged. Not at European citizens but at those who are responsible for forming public opinion." It said the poll reflected the impact of distorted media coverage of the Middle East conflict and served to "promote a hidden agenda of those who draft the questions in a way that will suit their political ends." Israel's minister for diaspora affairs and Jerusalem, Natan Sharansky, said the survey showed that "behind the 'political' criticism of Israel lies nothing other than pure anti-Semitism." Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom said in a statement the poll was "conducted in an irresponsible manner and distorts reality," commondreams.org