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Barbara Kay: How anti-Zionists demonize Jews for remembering their own history

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Conservative panjandrum Ben Shapiro told attendees at a debut Toronto symposium on anti-Zionism last Sunday that anti-Zionists are so committed to the premise that Israel, alone of the nations, is unworthy of existence, that they cannot make their case without lying: “They must lie about Israel, lie about its army, lie about its enemies, and ultimately lie about Jews themselves.” True, but how they lie falls along a spectrum.

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Decent people are not recruited to anti-Zionism by the cretinous behaviour of the “Death to the IDF” rabble. But they are susceptible to the blandishments of the more-in-sorrow ideologues and thought leaders that gussy up their anti-Zionism with custom-made “theories” and “reports” whose thrust just happens to demonize Israel.

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