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‘Accusing Israel of apartheid is not anti-Semitic’: Holocaust historian

Palestinians walk in front of a section of the Israeli barrier in Aida refugee camp, in Bethlehem, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, February 1, 2022 [Mussa Qawasma/Reuters]

Amos Goldberg, a leading professor of the Holocaust at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, has published a scathing retort saying that describing Israel’s treatment of Palestinians as “apartheid” is not anti-Semitic, in a guest post in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ).

Felix Klein, Germany’s commissioner for Jewish Life and the Fight Against Anti-Semitism, said using “apartheid” in such scenarios is “an anti-Semitic narrative” in an interview with Die Welt, one of Germany’s most-read newspapers.

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