2023-12-29 03:28:46
He stirs up hatred
This is why some organizations see it as a way to stir up hatred in order to eradicate Israel. Yves Oschinsky, for example, the president of the CCOJB (Coordination Committee of Jewish Organizations in Belgium), reacts: “This means the annihilation, the destruction of the State of Israel, that much is clear. At the same time, this means the massacre of all Israelis. We can even, with other references, see an extension, because they also have as their idea and goal the destruction of the Jews of the world. It is clear anti-Semitism when we call for the destruction of an entire population“.
An expression of hope for freedom
On the side of the demonstrators who proclaim the slogan, the sentence is presented differently. It would be the expression of a hope of freedom for all Palestinians who live in these contested territories.
An ambivalent definition
On the side of UNIA, the independent public service for combating discrimination in Belgium, the formula “can have several meanings“, comments the director, Patrick Charlier. “This can mean: we suppress the existence of all the Jews who are in this place in Israel, and therefore this is clearly an anti-Semitic slogan. This can also mean: we do not want to have a State of Israel as such, then it is an anti-Zionist slogan. But some use it to advocate a binational Israeli-Palestinian state and as such it is neither anti-Semitic nor anti-Zionist..
The formula is therefore extremely ambivalent, it depends on the context.
And in Belgium?
According to Patrick Charlier (UNIA), “Germany has a particular sensitivity to the State of Israel and to the question of anti-Semitism linked to history. In Belgium, this slogan has never been judged to be contrary to Belgian legislation, but there was also no procedure to have it recognized as a form of anti-Semitism, namely incitement to hatred, violence or discrimination once morest Jews“, he explains.
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