Thursday, 2 June 2016

"Today You Can't Hate [Jews] For Their Race, So You Hate Them For Their Nation State": Lord Sacks on modern antisemitism (video)

This, unusually, is my third post of the day (please don't overlook the other two, the first of which is an article by David Singer on the European Union and the PLO).

In this excerpt from an interview with the BBC's Evan Davis, former Chief Rabbi of Great Britain and the Commonwealth Lord Sacks, having noted why multiculturalism has failed to promote tolerance, maintains that today's anti-Zionism is antisemitism in disguise.



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2 comments:

  1. Empress Trudy3 June 2016 at 23:10

    Sweet sounding words but Dr Sacks has rarely stood up to bigots, racists and antisemites. He adopts a somewhat live and let live approach. Perhaps that had to do with his official role but now it's too little too late.

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  2. geoffff4 June 2016 at 14:59

    One of the best denunciations of antizionism as antisemitism was written by Dr Sacks immediately after his retirement.
    He explained he felt constrained to speak out in support of Israel, which he praised, because of his official role as a religious leader and in the hope of setting an example for other religious leaders.
    He was appalled that his silence was being used by antisemites to attack Israel and the wide spread rumors that he was an antizionist.
    They were wide spread. They reached as far as Australia. For pro -Israel advocates it was a case of "thanks a lot Rabbi."

    There's a lesson there for all of us I think.

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