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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (31304)	2/25/2004 7:50:17 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (7) \| Respond to of 793699

<<What we lack is an attempt to understand the area where anti-Israelism and anti-semitism overlaps. In the eyes of the anti-Israelis, criticism of Israel is legitimate, and it isn't anti-semitism. In a sense they're right. Honest criticism, which they clearly believe they're providing, is legitimate, and these aren't modern Hitlers, these aren't Jew haters. And yet Jews all over Europe do experience anti-semitism, and whenever they do there's a connection to Israel somehow. So there's a discrepancy here that needs to be worked out.>> What is missing in these discussions is the answer to the question of how we can criticize Israel without being considered anti-semitic. Naturally, any criticism of Israel gives aid and comfort to the anti-semitic. So what do we do about that? Never criticize Israel? That cannot be the answer. There have been a couple of articles posted on this subject lately, which I have read with great interest. I keep hoping one of them will give the answer rather than just pose the problem.