The Importance of Antisemitism

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"I worry about BDS even though I support it and I worry because it's so easy for antisemitism to seep into any movement like that," he says. "How can we combine boycotting apartheid while being solidaristic to the Jews"? That is the question. But then we have to balance that fear with another fear, the fear of forgetting the Palestinians' human rights which is happening under the express policy of apartheid by especially the recent Israeli government."

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