This writer ticks several of the boxes that the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance uses to define anti-semitism, as do the protestors chanting the genocidal slogan "from the river to the sea", "go back to Poland", "we'll take it all, no two states", "Zionazis", "yes, we're all Hamas", "Oct 7 is going to be every day for you" (to Jewish students ethnically cleansed from Columbia's campus), "Al Qassam we love you! We support your rockets too!"
"Contemporary examples of antisemitism in public life, the media, schools, the workplace, and in the religious sphere could, taking into account the overall context, include, but are not limited to:
Calling for, aiding, or justifying the killing or harming of Jews in the name of a radical ideology or an extremist view of religion.
Making mendacious, dehumanizing, demonizing, or stereotypical allegations about Jews as such or the power of Jews as collective — such as, especially but not exclusively, the myth about a world Jewish conspiracy or of Jews controlling the media, economy, government or other societal institutions.
Accusing Jews as a people of being responsible for real or imagined wrongdoing committed by a single Jewish person or group, or even for acts committed by non-Jews.
Denying the fact, scope, mechanisms (e.g. gas chambers) or intentionality of the genocide of the Jewish people at the hands of National Socialist Germany and its supporters and accomplices during World War II (the Holocaust).
Accusing the Jews as a people, or Israel as a state, of inventing or exaggerating the Holocaust.
Accusing Jewish citizens of being more loyal to Israel, or to the alleged priorities of Jews worldwide, than to the interests of their own nations.
Denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, e.g., by claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor.
Applying double standards by requiring of it a behavior not expected or demanded of any other democratic nation.
Using the symbols and images associated with classic antisemitism (e.g., claims of Jews killing Jesus or blood libel) to characterize Israel or Israelis.
Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis.
Holding Jews collectively responsible for actions of the state of Israel.
Antisemitic acts are criminal when they are so defined by law (for example, denial of the Holocaust or distribution of antisemitic materials in some countries).
Criminal acts are antisemitic when the targets of attacks, whether they are people or property – such as buildings, schools, places of worship and cemeteries – are selected because they are, or are perceived to be, Jewish or linked to Jews."
Add Holocaust inversion:
"Holocaust Inversion' involves an inversion of reality (the Israelis are cast as the 'new' Nazis and the Palestinians as the 'new' Jews), and an inversion of morality (the Holocaust is presented as a moral lesson for, or even a moral indictment of 'the Jews'). More: those who object to these inversions are told - as they were by David Ward - that they are acting in bad faith, only being concerned to deflect criticism of Israel. In short, the Holocaust, an event accurately described by Dan Diner as a 'rupture in civilisation,' organised by a regime that, as the political philosopher Leo Strauss observed, 'had no other clear principle except murderous hatred of the Jews,' is now being used, instrumentally, as a means to express animosity towards the homeland of the Jews. 'The victims have become perpetrators' is being heard more and more. That is Holocaust Inversion.
THE INVERSION OF REALITY AND MORALITY
Clemens Heni, the German political scientist and director of the Berlin International Center for the Study of Antisemitism (BICSA), believes that the equation of Israel/the Jews/Zionism with Nazism amounts to an 'inversion of truth' which is used today as a form of 'extremely aggressive anti-Jewish propaganda.' Anthony Julius, author of a landmark study of British antisemitism, notes that Holocaust Inversion is becoming part of the iconography of a new antisemitism. Headlines such as 'The Final Solution to the Palestine Question,' references to the 'Holocaust in Gaza,' images of IDF soldiers morphing into jackbooted storm troopers, Israeli politicians morphing into Hitler, and the Star of David morphing into the Swastika, are all increasingly common. The 2009 Report of the European Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism, Understanding the 'Nazi' Card: Intervening against Anti-Semitic Discourse, reported that equating Israel with the Nazis is an important component of incitement and racial aggravation against Jews in the UK today…" "Holocaust Inversion, then, involves the abuse of the Holocaust memory to issue a moral stricture aimed at Israel and 'the Jews', imposing upon them a uniquely onerous moral responsibility and accountability in their treatment of others."
