In an article headed "Antisemitism and criticism of Israel are not the same, the article reveals 30 global Jewish organisations released a strong statement against the campaign to try to combine anti-Israel with Antisemitism as one and the same.
In the article in July 2018 the report states
"Proponents of Israeli policies believe that the definition of anti-Semitism must be changed to include criticism of Israel. These advocates aren't interested in distinguishing between legitimate criticism of Israel's state policies and actual anti-Semitism; they're simply exploiting a genuine fear of anti-Semitism in order to promote their political position: support Israel at all costs."
"One example of this deliberate confusion is the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism, which disingenuously connects critiques of Israel to anti-Semitism by including "the targeting of the state of Israel, conceived as a Jewish collectivity." But describing Israel as a "Jewish collectivity" ignores the fact that one-fifth of Israel's citizens are Palestinian. Plus, not even all Jews support the State of Israel, its illegal occupation of Palestinian land, or its apartheid policies. The assertion of Jewish unity around the State of Israel is essentially false."
And this is exactly what is happening in Scotland, right now as Israeli citizens and Jewish groups push for the Scottish Parliament to define antisemitism the same way the Westminster Government has.
Scotland is a country where we have strong equality, racism and hate crime laws which means no one of any race, colour or creed requires special treatment - to be above everyone else in regards to equality, hate crime and anti-racism laws.
But the Jewish lobby is fighting hard in Scotland to get their needs met above all others - and we must learn to distinguish between those lobbying for Jewish interests and those lobbying for political zionist interests.
After the last Scottish election, a cross party committee called "Building Bridges with Israel" was set up in the Scottish Parliament which has some of the most powerful Jews and Jewish lobbying groups in Scotland and from across the UK as members, as well as Israeli citizens, which allows them to attend meetings with Pro-Israel MSP's from SNP, Labour, Tory and Lib Dem to tell MSP's what they want them to do for them.
At a meeting of the cross party group on 18th January 2017, in the "Any Other Competent Business" section of the minutes, Ephraim Borowski from The Scottish Council of Jewish Communities (ScoJec) noted
"the recent work on Jewish life in Scotland, “What’s Changed About Being Jewish in Scotland”, in particular the feelings of isolation and loss of connection with Scottishness that many Jews fell in Scotland. The evidence from Scotland’s Jews is that some attitudes towards Israel have contributed to this isolation and disconnection and, at times, have spilled over into anti-Semitism"
Israeli citizen, Itimar Nitzan, in attendance in a personal capacity,
"asked about the Scottish Government’s position on anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism".
Tory MSP Jackson Carlaw replied he had
asked the Scottish Government if they intend on adopting the same definition of anti-Semitism that the UK Government has."
Jackson Carlaw, and other MSPs' in attendance noted their intention push the Scottish Government on this.
In March 2016, the UK Government's website, Eric Pickles wrote an article where he said
"The problem of antisemitism continues to be a serious one. One issue is the absence of an agreed international definition of antisemitism."
"In the UK we use this definition of hate crime in general:
"Hate crimes and incidents are taken to mean any crime or incident where the perpetrator’s hostility or prejudice against an identifiable group of people is a factor in determining who is victimised."
He goes on to list the UK College of Policing's state in their guidance on antisemitism
"criticism of Israel similar to that leveled against any other country cannot be regarded as antisemitic. Antisemitic acts are criminal when they are so defined by law (for example, denial of the Holocaust or distribution of antisemitic materials in some countries)."
By December 2016 the UK Government agreed to be one of the first countries in the world to adopt a new definition of antisemitism from the Berlin based International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA)
"Anti-Semitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of anti-Semitism are directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/or their property, toward Jewish community institutions and religious facilities"
"It means there will be one definition of anti-Semitism – in essence, language or behaviour that displays hatred towards Jews because they are Jews – and anyone guilty of that will be called out on it."
But what the government website does not say is reported in the Guardian which reveals the German based IHRA definition includes over-sweeping condemnation of Israel to be considered antisemitic, with the Guardian explaining
"The guidance says it could be considered antisemitic to accuse Jews of being more loyal to Israel or their religion than to their own nations, or to say the existence of Israel is intrinsically racist."
"Concerns about criticism of Israel as a state potentially crossing into overt antisemitism has had particular recent resonance in British politics over recent months, with the Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, commissioning a report into the issue in his party."
Last week Israel supporters were furious because Jeremy Corbyn refused to include any of the definition that tried to state being anti Israeli is being antisemitic in the Labour Party's adoption of the IHRA definition.
Corbyn was labelled as antisemitic by a fellow Labour MP, condemned by Theresa May for refusing to define anti-Israeli as antisemitic, with Dave Rich in the Guardian claiming
"Labour’s antisemitism code exposes a sickness in Jeremy Corbyn’s party"
Who is Dave Rich - he is head of policy at the Community Security Trust – a charity that protects British Jews from antisemitism and related threats – and author of The Left’s Jewish Problem: Jeremy Corbyn, Israel and Anti-Semitism"
The Community Security Trust (CST) is a British charity established in 1994 (funded with taxpayers money) to ensure the safety and security of the Jewish community in the UK and keeps record of every antisemitic incident reported since its inception.
This of course allows the zionists to use these figures for propaganda while everyone else in the UK does not get funding from the UK Government to do the same for their ethnic minority group to defend themselves and run their own security cars (which look like police cars) and have paid people to keep track of every ethnic attack against everyone in their ethnic group.
The CST has five offices, 55 members of staff and a network of 3,000 volunteers from all parts of the Jewish community, and the head of the CST is the highest paid of all charity leaders within the British Jewish community, earning between £170,000-£190,000 per annum in 2014.
This surely is racial discrimination and breaches every idea of equality law - both giving the Jewish community taxpayers money to defend only their community with their own private security force and to define the Jewish race as above every other race - in our diverse UK - by law.
Now why is it not a hate crime for all these people to label Jeremy Corbyn antisemitic when he is clearly not?
And now we find the committee of MSP's in Scotland involved in the new Building Bridges With Israel cross parliamentary group are being asked to get the Scottish Government to also place the IHRA definition of antisemitic into Scottish law too.
This committee run by Tory MSP's backed by several SNP MSPs along with Willie Rennie and a Labour MSP and members of the Jewish lobby from across the UK - who supply the coffee and biscuits for MSPs and secretarial services for every meeting, are getting their demands met in the Scottish Parliament - for the price of coffee, a few biscuits and secretarial services.
Should one tiny section of our society get to lobby and hold meetings in the Scottish Parliament with like minded MSP's for their needs, based on Race/religion to be met - is this not discrimination and racism in action?
Surely the continued cries of antisemitism used to garner special treatment is against equality law because we are all equal - and, in fact, should the term antisemitism be banned from being used and simply, like everyone else, come under RACISM or sectarianism to ensure equality laws are met and no one gets special treatment.
Scotland just repealed anti-sectarianism law which could also have covered antisemitism - because sectarianism means "excessive attachment to a particular sect or party, especially in religion."
On 27th June 2018 an FOI answer confirmed the Scottish Government did force the IHRA 2017 definition of antisemitism on the whole of Scotland without consultation but as yet has not adopted the updated version which the Westminster Government has imposed - to say being anti-Israeli is being anti-semitic. Will I be accused of being antisemitic for daring to even ask these questions - what do you think?