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Cowardly Anti-Semitism Hides behind Criticism of Israel
(Telegraph-UK) Con Coughlin - In his new book, Israelophobia: The Newest Version of the Oldest Hatred & What to Do About It, Jake Wallis Simons reveals that in 2022, when tens of thousands of Ukrainians perished in the conflict with Russia and the Yemeni violence claimed 3,000 lives, it was the deaths of 180 Palestinians that attracted the most comment from the so-called neutral human rights activists at Amnesty International. A study of its Twitter feed between January and April 2023 showed that while the organization posted just two critical comments on the Ukraine conflict, and none at all about Yemen, it published 26 comments about supposed Israeli crimes. The age-old curse of anti-Semitism, which is not content with slandering the Jewish people, now focuses on denouncing the State of Israel. The term Israelophobia, Simons explains, was originally coined by the Italian-Israeli journalist Fiamma Nirenstein to describe the surge in anti-Israeli sentiment in recent years. According to Simons' definition of Israelophobia, there are three defining characteristics: demonizing Israel, weaponizing activists to condemn the Jews and their national home, and using Soviet- and Nazi-era propaganda to falsify the stated aims of the Zionist enterprise.