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Headline: Islamophobia and antisemitism are not the same

Sub-headline: Prejudice against Muslims is deplorable but it’s not bigotry to call out the Islamist threat to Jews

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/islamophobia-and-antisemitism-are-not-the-same-nxgrqvxbt

Melanie’s self -willed forgetting of ‘The War On Terror’:

Melanie is a well paid Political Hysteric, whose specialty is to warn of the clear and present danger of Anti-Semitism. Yet these paragraphs below demonstrate that she is fixated on “Islamophobia” is not equivalent to antisemitism.’ Yet the Genocide being perpetrated by the Zionist State against the Palestinians, a Semitic People, can’t be used for furthering the Jewish Victimhood narrative, while Melanie’s focus is the more manageable domestic front, characterized by ‘People of goodwill parrot accusations of Islamophobia through ignorance or fear.’ To reduce Melanie’s ‘argument’ to its simplest terms Jewish Suffering/Victimhood is always Primary !

People of goodwill parrot accusations of Islamophobia through ignorance or fear. British Jewish leaders, with the community’s historic experience of antisemitism uppermost in their minds and eager to show solidarity with other victims of bigotry — and to keep their heads below any cultural parapet — have chosen to accept the definition of Islamophobia at face value. This has had unfortunate effects. Although statistics show the Islamic world is riddled with antisemitism and that “Arabs and Asians” are disproportionately involved in attacks on British Jews, Jewish community leaders never speak about the threat they face from Muslim antisemitism.

“Islamophobia” is not equivalent to antisemitism. It facilitates it. Derailing the parliamentary process last week as a result of threats to MPs over their attitude to a foreign conflict was an inflection point in the encroachment by intimidatory, radical Islamism. That danger must be called out and dealt with. To equate any such call with the Jew-hatred at the theological core of this menacing ideology is as Newspaper self-destructive as it is obscene.

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