As far as I'm concerned, the ongoing debate over how—and if—to formally define antisemitism largely misses the point.
As far as I'm concerned, the ongoing debate over how—and if—to formally define antisemitism largely misses the point.On the one hand, I fully agree that one first needs to be able to define a problem in order to be able to deal with it if not resolve it, and antisemitism is beyond question a problem of increasingly dire dimensions. At the same time, however, fixed definitions, like most dogma, far too often are an impediment to intelligent thought.
But then you have extremist far-right ministers of the present Israel government engaging in hateful rhetoric toward the Palestinians, something most probably not anticipated by the drafters of the definition eight years ago. At this time, we can still finesse this particular issue by arguing that such rhetoric does not represent Israel government policy, which it doesn't.
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