World Jewish Congress – Clinton: anti-Semitism an important factor in criticism of Israel on Gaza

World Jewish Congress – Clinton: anti-Semitism an important factor in criticism of Israel on Gaza

Former American Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is identifying anti-Semitism as an important motivation for the international criticism of Israel’s incursion in Gaza, according to a new interview.

“It is striking … that you have more than 170,000 people dead in Syria. … You have Russia massing battalions—Russia, that actually annexed and is occupying part of a UN member-state—and I fear that it will do even more to prevent the incremental success of the Ukrainian government to take back its own territory, other than Crimea. More than 1,000 people have been killed in Ukraine on both sides, not counting the [Malaysia Airlines] plane, and yet we do see this enormous international reaction against Israel, and Israel’s right to defend itself, and the way Israel has to defend itself,” Rodham Clinton said in an August 10 interview with The Atlantic magazine. “This reaction is uncalled for and unfair.”