JERUSALEM—Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu commended his ‘’friend’’, Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz for defining ‘’anti-Zionism as a type of anti-Semitism.’’
Speaking at the weekly cabinet meeting on Sunday, Netanyahu said : ‘’I recently read a cogent remark by the noted American human rights leader Martin Luther King: ‘When people criticize Zionists, they mean Jews. You’re talking anti-Semitism.’’’
‘’I commend my friend Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, under whose leadership the EU has called for the adoption of this definition of Martin Luther King – anti-Zionism is an expression of anti-Semitism. Nobody can say that they are not against Americans, but they just think that America shouldn’t exist, just as nobody can say that they are not against Jews, but they think that the state of the Jews does not need to exist. I thank the Austrian Chancellor for working to expose this absurdity and to precisely define anti-Zionism as a type of anti-Semitism.’’