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Anti-Israeli/Semitic Article in Dutch Daily - 'The Chosen People Have to be Perfect'

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mr.JA1/13/2012 9:31:05 am PST

re: #3 Alouette

You’re making-up the ‘racist’ part now, there is no mention whatsoever about any racism in the original article! In this article, they could have replaced Israel with Germany, and nobody would have said a word (and it would still be true).
Criticism (or in this case, pondering) on how things are organized in Israel != anti-Semitism! In Dutch we call being sensitive ‘having long toes’ (so people can step on them easily), and this seems to be a prime example.
Every day there are stories in newspapers from Dutch expats writing about oddities in their new ‘home countries’, and their perspective on that, and this happens to include some vague criticism on Israel, and then it is suddenly classified as ‘anti-Semitic’ by people who don’t even can read the original piece!