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Comment is free: Telling it like it is: "Responses to Jimmy Carter's bestselling book Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid have varied between indifference and knee-jerk accusations of anti-semitism. Writing in the Los Angeles Times, Carter said: 'For the last 30 years, I have witnessed and experienced the severe restraints on any free and balanced discussion of the facts ... It would be almost politically suicidal for members of Congress to espouse a balanced position between Israel and Palestine, to suggest that Israel comply with international law or to speak in defence of justice or human rights for Palestinians.'

Responses to Carter's book are quite revealing. On the one hand, they show the extent to which Israel has become an untouchable political taboo, beyond criticism or condemnation. On the other, they illustrate the way in which charges of anti-semitism are exploited to silence all critical views of Israeli policies. Carter is neither the far-right politician Jean-Marie Le Pen, nor the revolutionary Hugo Chávez, nor indeed is he Iran's radical president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. He is neither a politician of the right nor of the left, but a centre liberal, under whose presidency the Camp David Accords, the peace agreement between Israel and Egypt, were signed. To accuse him of anti-Israel bias, as many Democrats fearful of the powerful pro-Israel lobby have been doing, or of anti-semitism is so outrageous as to be laughable.

The truth is that the problem does not lie with what Carter has written, but with the political and media discourse dominant in the US, which equates all criticism of Israel with anti-semitism, with all the consequences that entails for the accused. In Carter's words, criticism of Israel is political suicide. In their detailed study of the power of the Israel lobby, Mearsheimer and Walt note: 'Anyone who criticises Israel's actions or argues that pro-Israel groups have significant influence over US Middle Eastern policy stands a good chance of being labelled an anti-semite ... in other words, criticise Israeli policy and you are by definition an anti-semite.'"


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