Let's hear it for Marco Schreuder
Marco Schreuder is a Green party legislator in Austria and was the only one to oppose a piece of anti-Israel legislation that was passed last week. The legislation singled out Israel’s anti-terror policy on detention for condemnation but – astonishingly – failed to acknowledge its neighbours’ similar or worse policies, including Syria, the paramilitary Israel-eliminationist organisations which operate on Israel’s borders, and the draconian detention measures meted out in Palestinian law to dissenters and gay people. These are well-documented by human rights organisations, feed the region’s authoritarian tendencies and it is seriously strange that they are ignored by the Bundesrat.Now why do so many people have a hard time understanding that?
If the Middle East is a playground full of bullies, and you single out one bully for a kicking while leaving the other bullies to go about their violent business unhindered, then you’re obviously a bad politician. And if the bully you’re so singularly and enthusiastically attacking is Jewish, then they may reasonably feel attacked as a Jew.
Labels: anti-Israel obsession, Austria, European anti-Semitism
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 2:08 AM
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