He Helped Define “Antisemitism”; Now He Says the Term Is Being Weaponized | Amanpour and Company

Netanyahu is offended by everything and ashamed of nothing

When people criticize Saudi Arabia's or Iran's government not once have i heard it called islamophobic. I refuse to respect this double standard

Am I antisemitic because I refuse to be a silent witness to the slaughter of 13,000 children in Gaza? Am I anti-Muslim because I oppose the gassing of civilians by the Assad regime? Was I anti-Christian because I demonstrated against the US war in Vietnam, while at university? Israel, Syria, the US are countries, not religions.

Semites are Semitic people in the Middle East and North Africa. Semites is not synonymous to Jews. Criticizing Israeli’s atrocities is not being antisemitic. It’s being righteous.

No group should be allowed to have privileges above others.

How is my high school child having to learn about the Holocaust for 3 months in public school, read Night and watch Life is Beautiful, yet hear absolutely nothing of Palestine or the Middle East NOT an exaggeration??

Anti-zionism is NOT anti-semitism, end of conversation!!

Criticism of Israel should not be conflated with antisemitism. Other groups like the Irish and Italians have faced discrimination and bigotry in the USA in the past. If someone criticizes the government of Ireland, that does not make them bigoted against Irish people. Criticism of the Italian government likewise does not make someone anti-Italian. Disclosure: my ancestors came to the USA from Ireland during the potato famine in the 1800s.

So, why is it that the Israeli govt insists that it is not an ethno-state, and yet holds that every criticism of it is antisemitic?

I listened attentively until he said "I am a Zionist". Same would have happened if he had said "I am a KKK member." Enough.

Israeli Govt should be brought up on charges for their Anti semitism against the Palestinian people

I for one think he’s being a little disingenuous. I for one will continue to throw around terms like “genocide“ I know what I see with my own eyes and no Israel does not have a right to unalive people in the way that they do.

Why is it ok for Netanyahu to say that phrase!!?? It is NOT ANTISEMITIC to criticize the barbaric actions of human rights atrocities of the Israeli GOVERNMENT!!!

Greetings from Ireland .. BDS apartheid Israel .. Free Palestine!

When the term is not used to protect human rights, but for political interests, tactics or strategy it erodes its significance and can be damaging to the very people it is supposed to protect.

I am disturbed but not surprised that powers in America such as university presidents treat Palestinians and pro-Palestinian demonstrators as implicitly wrong and violent - such are Jewish and Israeli political forces in the US that they can dictate positions. And I'm a Vietnam Era veteran, so I know what political protest (and suppression) look like. I expect PBS coverage to be more even-handed. I may have missed episodes that discuss the lack of a term that equates to antisemitism or Islamophobia, but for the Palestinian people that were run off their land and virtually imprisoned en masse in their own homeland. Thanks to Israeli politicians setting the agenda both there and in the US, there is no discussion of what makes targeted killings and mass murders by IDF defensive military operations, but similar acts by Hamas are terrorism not only by Hamas, but conflated with the entire Palestinian people. Likewise, the "river to the sea" rhetoric is apparently a problem for pro-Palestinians, but perfectly fine for right-wing extremists in the Knesset who have long intended to run all Palestinians out of the country that was theirs, into the sea if possible. Netanyahu made it clear years ago that he will never accept a two state solution, and he's moved even farther right to salvage his career. He's withheld food, water and electricity from Gaza to literally starve its people, a war crime. Its young children are half the normal body weight, leaving them with a lifelong disability (which doesn't seem to be a problem to the American Sanctity of Life crowd). IDF is killing members of the press in cold blood and suppressing coverage by not allowing access. I look to PBS to investigate issues being ignored by the mainstream press, not to be an echo chamber about abused topics such as antisemitism.

I will keep reiterating, you can not be antisemitic against people who aren't even semitic. 🙄

Netanyahu, a man who sees war crimes as self defense.

Genocide is not more palatable when seasoned with the intellectual contortions displayed here. Ignore the rage of our students at your peril.

There's antisemitism and there's anti-Israeli government policy based on whatever it may be specifically at a given time. The two are often conflated and confused. Back in the 1960s, the yahoos conflated dissent with disloyalty and they were 100% wrong.