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Friday 4 February 2011

Lauren Booth has a strange idea who isn't an anti-Semite

Israelly Cool reports Lauren Booth's latest pronouncements and shows why she is wrong about the former Malaysian Prime Minister, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, not being an anti-Semite. Lauren Bopoth says:
'If you speak to Dr. Mahathir, it is clear he has neither the personality nor the inclination to be an anti-Semite. He is a thoughtful, pious and philosophical man.
I want to tell the people of Malaysia not to be scared of being labeled anti-Semitic when criticising the unjust, disgraceful behaviour of the Israel regime.
The label ‘anti-Semite’ is applied deliberately to quash debate on the Israeli government and its army and we must not be afraid to speak out (on it).'
And here as reported by CNN are some of Dr Mohammad's views on Jews:
“We are actually very strong, 1.3 billion people cannot be simply wiped out. The Europeans killed 6 million Jews out of 12 million. But today the Jews rule the world by proxy. They get others to fight and die for them,” he said.
He called on Muslims to emulate the Jewish response to oppression, arguing the Jewish people had “survived 2,000 years of pogroms not by hitting back, but by thinking.”
Mahathir said, “They invented socialism, communism, human rights and democracy, so that persecuting them would appear to be wrong, so that they can enjoy equal rights with others.
“With these they have gained control of the most powerful countries and they, this tiny community, have become a world power.
“We cannot fight them through brawn alone, we must use our brains, also.”

And here as reported by The Jakarta Globe are some more of this definitely non anti-Semitic man:
'The former premier also blamed Jews for hindering progress in US foreign policy. Voicing his disappointment that Barack Obama had not yet ended the war in Afghanistan or closed the US terror detention center at Guantanamo, he explained that “there are forces in the United States which prevent the president from doing some things. One of the forces is the Jewish lobby.”
 Jews “had always been a problem in European countries. They had to be confined to ghettoes and periodically massacred. But still they remained, they thrived and they held whole governments to ransom,” Mahathir said.
“Even after their massacre by the Nazis of Germany, they survived to continue to be a source of even greater problems for the world.”'

So does Lauren Booth know what  her Malaysian friend has said about Jews? If not, will she retract her claim that he is no anti-Semite? Or does she consider the above quotes not to be anti-Semitic?

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