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Mother's Boy - with Howard Jacobson

Unholy: Two Jews on the News

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The Language of Antisemitism

I don't for one moment believe that the most at least the most savage criticism of Israel is not governed by the way Jews have been seen in the past. I would say to them them. Why are you using the language of medieval Jewating? Why are you talking about Jews as people who murder children? The Israeli Jew in exactly the same language that a citizen of Central Europe 500 years ago would have described the Jew. But they still think it's called criticism and wishes to describe it in the language of Medieval Jew hated Jew hatred. That person's criticism is not legitimate or allowable, he says.

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