Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman
said Wednesday that "classic anti-Semitism, alongside Iranian funding and Islamic anti-Semitism, are being used to inflame hatred against Jews, but also to delegitimize the State of Israel."
Speaking at the Global Forum for Combating Anti-Semitism in Jerusalem, the foreign minister said that this has become a complex attack, which has drawn the attention of anti-Semitic organizations across the world.
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"Their stance is pure hypocrisy," Lieberman accused. "Only recently we saw how human rights organizations have been working vigorously to deny Israel's legitimacy by getting the UN Security Council to adopt
the Goldstone Report."
He also mentioned Iran:
"It’s scary that only several decades after the Holocaust, we see an incident in which a country supports anti-Semitism. Iran denies the Holocaust,
calls for Israel's destruction and seeks to obtain a nuclear weapon. All this reminds us of what happened 70 years ago."
The foreign minister added that "this is an example of the hypocrisy of organizations that are obsessed with undermining the State of Israel's right to exist, 60 years after the Holocaust.
"Modern anti-Semitism has put on the form of being anti-Israel and hating Zionism and the State of Israel. Instead of saying 'throw the Jews into the sea' – they talk about a world without Zionism and without Israel."
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