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The obvious truth is that it is the Netanyahu regime that is causing the threat to Jewish communities across the world, not governments that are telling this truth.

I suspect Netanyahu regards threats to the diaspora as an opportunity to increase israel’s prominence within that diaspora. For better or worse I believe many jews see Israel as the refuge of last resort - even if they are vehemently opposed to Netanyahu’s actions

I've been convinced for a long time that he *deliberately* foments anti-Semitism, violence and hatred against Jews around the world, in order to justify his actions as "Mr Security" and pushing for an ever more powerful, dominant and aggressive vision of Israel.

People seem quite happy to call out Trump for what he's doing in Iran and elsewhere, without thought of the impact it might have on Americans, or even Christians, so am I being over-simplistic to think that this is the same thing? We're surely criticising the man, not people of the same faith.

Always worth going back to the source.

I wasn't sure why he had that position in the government. Now I do and I think he did an excellent job

Yes we've past a very dangerous marker, it's effectively now impossible to criticise Israel and their many completely unacceptable actions without being labelled antisemitic. Exactly as Netanyahu demand, Israel are now basically above any international law.

I think this might be it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm76...

He is also trying to stay out of jail

He had to. Any ambiguity would be jumped all over on both sides

(laudatory)

He was very clear and very precise and very... aware of how his words were going to be used against him.

Being precise with your language is extremely Important. The replies of Zara Sultana and Netanyahu (inevitably) were examples of the exact opposite.

Absolutely nobody is doing him the honour of applying the same level of care in the language they use in their critiques of what he said, or even in having understood exactly what he said, and that must be utterly infuriating to him.

3/8 To pretend otherwise is to offer a false idol while ignoring the real work—solidarity, education, local resistance—that actually keeps communities safe.

Israel emphatically does *not* want the Jewish diaspora to feel safe. there are documented cases in the Middle East of bombings of Jewish areas carried out by Israeli terrorists, in order to spread the lie that Jews were threatened there. and so it continues, in more subtle forms

I also think that he is guilty of deliberately conflating the State of Israel with the global Jewish community for his own political and diplomatic ends, so his criticism of other governments on this score rings very hollow indeed.

Yes exactly this. Some people have either completely lost the plot or are being extremely cynical in pursuit of short-term partisan advantage.