It's a familiar refrain and response to Israel's one-eyed supporters. Attack those who criticise with whatever epithet suits the occasion - self-hating Jew, ant-Israel, Jew for Genocide or anti-Zionist, etc. etc.
The New Jersey Jewish News spills the beans on how to deal with critics of Israel's policies:
"If you can’t convince ’em, accuse ’em. That’s the advice from The Israel Project (TIP) for pro-Israel activists answering questions about settlements. Rather than try to defend Israeli settlements, change the subject. If that doesn’t work, try accusing those who advocate removing Jewish settlements of promoting “a kind of ethnic cleansing to move all Jews” from the West Bank.
TIP calls that “the best settlement argument” in its 2009 Global Language Dictionary, a manual on how to talk to journalists and opinion molders about the Arab-Israeli conflict."
It doesn't get much more offensive than that!
The New Jersey Jewish News spills the beans on how to deal with critics of Israel's policies:
"If you can’t convince ’em, accuse ’em. That’s the advice from The Israel Project (TIP) for pro-Israel activists answering questions about settlements. Rather than try to defend Israeli settlements, change the subject. If that doesn’t work, try accusing those who advocate removing Jewish settlements of promoting “a kind of ethnic cleansing to move all Jews” from the West Bank.
TIP calls that “the best settlement argument” in its 2009 Global Language Dictionary, a manual on how to talk to journalists and opinion molders about the Arab-Israeli conflict."
It doesn't get much more offensive than that!
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