ALGEMEINER
by Adam Levick
May 31, 2015

It’s been a difficult couple of weeks for “progressive” anti-Zionists. First, Barack Obama, during his interview with Jeffrey Goldberg last week, clearly suggested that denying Israel’s right to exist is anti-Semitic. More recently, it was reported that Pope Francis told Portuguese-Israeli journalist Henrique Cymerman that “anyone who does not recognize the Jewish people and the State of Israel — and their right to exist — is guilty of anti-Semitism.”Of course, the comments by Obama and Pope Francis regarding the inherent racism of denying Israel’s right to exist are consistent with the EUMC Working Definition of Antisemitism and the U.S.State Department’s definition. READ MORE