Is anti-Zionism a hidden form of anti-Semitism?
The refusal of the mayor of Strasbourg, Jeanne Barseghian, and her green and communist majority, to vote for the definition of anti-Semitism proposed by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (Ihra), after a debate on this issue , raises questions.
Until Israel where the
Jerusalem Post
published this weekend an "open letter to Jeanne Barseghian".
"To reject this definition is to return to a dark past"
, writes Shimon Samuels, one of the leaders of the Simon-Wiesenthal center, an organization for the fight against anti-Semitism recognized by the United Nations, calling on the mayor
"to be sensitive to its… historical environment ”,
citing as an example the Alsatian concentration camp of Natzweiler-Struthof.
"This refusal was an electric shock for the Alsatians who live in Israel"
, explains Michel Rothé, a native of Mulhouse, who runs the website "Judaism of Alsace and Lorraine".
“As mayor, she could have been
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