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IHRA definition of antisemitism to include phrase “except when we do it”

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The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance announced today that their benchmark definition of antisemitism, like the American Constitution, may subject to a number of amendments.


Chief among these will be the controversial assertion that genocide doesn’t count as genocide “when we do i


”I think it’s perfectly clear that the phrase ‘Never again’ always included an unspoken ‘to us’ at the end,” said spokesman Benny Paskudnik. “Just as Orwell’s ‘All animals are equal’ always carried the implication ‘but some animals are more equal than others’.


“Besides, what we’re doing simply isn’t genocide. It’s an entirely proportionate response to the October 7th attacks, which simply happens to have killed 50 times as many people, almost all of whom had nothing to do with the attacks.


“Above all, I must reiterate that any comparison of the Israeli state to the Nazi regime is inherently antisemitic. We really need that one, since we’re behaving so much like the Nazis these days.”


When asked why he was using the word “we” to describe the Israeli state, Paskudnik replied “Well what did you think, that we were an independent body? There really is one born every minute.”



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