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[mormont]

14 hours ago, Spockydog said:

"To me the Israeli state is like an abused child who becomes an abusive adult. Like child abuse it has to stop.”

Can anyone explain to me what makes this statement anti-semitic? 

To begin with, the oldest and nastiest forms of anti-Semitism are the blood libels, which are baseless allegations of, well, child abuse. So at the very minimum, this can be seen as a highly unfortunate allusion and at worst a deliberate dog-whistle. It would certainly have been read as the latter by some. 

The same blog post alleged that accusations of anti-Semitism against Corbyn were 'orchestrated by the wealthy establishment', again a common dog-whistle phrase for anti-Semites. Twice in one article begins to look, at best, careless, naive and crass. It's certainly not OK.