by JAMES WRIGHT
Renowned Jewish intellectual Noam Chomsky has nailed how the character assassination of Jeremy Corbyn began.
Addressing the United Nations in 2014, Chomsky revealed how some Israeli politicians have explicitly sought to smear critics of Israel as antisemitic.
The character assassination
Presently, Corbyn is under fire from the press, the right of his party, and the conservative Board of Deputies of British Jews. The Labour leader has stood firm against pressure to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) examples of antisemitism in full.
Strengthening Corbyn’s position, 36 Jewish groups from around the world said on 17 July that the IHRA definition can be perceived to “intentionally equate legitimate criticisms of Israel… with antisemitism”.
Back in 2014 at the UN, meanwhile, Chomsky showed where the smear campaign began:
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Making criticism of Israel ‘racist’
Citing an article that Israel’s then ambassador to the UN wrote in 1973, Chomsky said:
He advised the American Jewish community that they had two tasks to perform. One task was to show that… criticisms of the policy of the state of Israel were antisemitism… Second task: if the criticism was made by Jews, their task was to show that it’s neurotic self-hatred – needs psychiatric treatment. And he gave two examples of the… latter category. One was I.F. Stone, the other was me. So we have to be treated for our psychiatric disorders and non-Jews have to be condemned for antisemitism if they’re critical of the state of Israel.
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