When the international criminal court issued arrest warrants for Israeli officials in November, the response from the country’s government was all too familiar. The prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, rejected outright the warrants for alleged war crimes in Gaza against him and the former defence minister Yoav Gallant, calling them “an antisemitic decision”. The ultranationalist national security adviser, Itamar Ben-Gvir, declared that the court had shown “once again that it is antisemitic through and through”. And the transport minister, Miri Regev, chimed in, claiming: “This is modern antisemitism in the guise of justice.”
An example of folks who changed the meaning of Apartheid to "inequality in places I don’t like, " and Genocide to “any war I don’t like” now clutching their pearls over the purity of language. I don’t like how the term antisemitisn has been abused, but I also don’t like the hypocrisy of people who are fine with weaponizing sensitive language when it suits them.
Apartheid and Genocide have clear meanings both of which Israeli actions against Palestinians are textbook examples of.