Emmanuel Macron is starting to show his real colours, and the love-in with him of many non-French liberals hopefully will be over soon. He's been meeting Benjamin Netanyahu, and has won great favour with Bibi (and so with the most rightwing government Israel has ever had) on account of his assertion that 'anti-Zionism is the new version of anti-Semitism'. Actually, it isn't, and we need to nail this canard immediately. No-one better for this task than Judith Butler. Here is her classic essay on the topic:
No, it’s not anti-semitic: the right to criticise Israel · 21 August 2003
No, it’s not anti-semitic: the right to criticise Israel · 21 August 2003
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