I don’t hold her opinion, I was just giving a tldr. But I think you misunderstood her take. Of course the state Israel is different from the Jewish religion, but when they are inherently linked to the Jewish religion it makes it easy for people to blame the Israeli crimes not on a state but on a religion. That’s what she was talking about. This is breeding ground for antisemites using rhetoric to intertwine the state and the religion to spew hate against Jews. And antisemitism in ones own country is then again a problem that needs to be addressed.
Now I think people really have to try hard to see Israel criticism as antisemitism but there’s probably enough discussions about this online that a politician might want to touch the subject carefully (but be spineless at the same time)
I don’t hold her opinion, I was just giving a tldr. But I think you misunderstood her take. Of course the state Israel is different from the Jewish religion, but when they are inherently linked to the Jewish religion it makes it easy for people to blame the Israeli crimes not on a state but on a religion. That’s what she was talking about. This is breeding ground for antisemites using rhetoric to intertwine the state and the religion to spew hate against Jews. And antisemitism in ones own country is then again a problem that needs to be addressed.
Now I think people really have to try hard to see Israel criticism as antisemitism but there’s probably enough discussions about this online that a politician might want to touch the subject carefully (but be spineless at the same time)