MIAMI (JNS) — The treasurer of the Miami-Dade Democratic Party in Florida on Tuesday said criticism of Israel’s “apartheid policies” is not anti-Semitic.
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“What I will NEVER do is pretend that honest criticism of Israeli apartheid policies is anti-semitism. So you won’t see me calling out criticisms of Israeli ethnostatist polices as anti-semitism, because that’s not anti-semitism,” tweeted William Byatt.
What I will NEVER do is pretend that honest criticism of Israeli apartheid policies is anti-semitism. So you won’t see me calling out criticisms of Israeli ethnostatist polices as anti-semitism, because that’s not anti-semitism.
— William Byatt (@wm_byatt) January 14, 2020
Previously a founding board member of the People’s Progressive Caucus of Miami-Dade, Byatt is a senior software engineer at accounting and advisory firm Kaufman Rossin, according to the Miami-Dade Democratic Party website.
The Miami-Dade Democratic Party nor its chair, Steve Simeonidis, immediately responded to a request for comment.
Lots of people here criticize Israel. Maybe it is only antisemitic when certain people do it.
I guess if they can legitimately be classified as apartheid, nobody would have a problem with it. The issue is, of course, what does he consider apartheid?
The democrat party is anti Israel and pro Iran.
He can say anything he wants. The Alte Krotcher Yiddlech brigades in Miami Dade will never leave the Dem Party.
Aha. And FDR was a great friend of the Jewish people. Aha.