Harper’s assertion that anti-Zionism is the ‘new anti-Semitism’ is morally unacceptable

During Harper’s impassioned speech to the Israeli parliament earlier this week, one of the many problematic items mentioned by our Prime Minister was his belief that criticism of the state of Israel as the national home of the Jewish people is tantamount to a new form of anti-Semitism. As a Canadian Jew, I strongly reject  this assertion by our Prime Minister. A growing number of leading experts on this issue have come to understand that Israel’s founding as a state was a violent, pre-meditated act, that sought and continues to seek the removal of the indigenous Palestinian population.