Weasel words!
Let's deconstruct the phrase in the earlier letter, shall we?
"And whilst this particular first step cannot be considered anti-semitic
in itself," - you haven't done anything yet that we can describe as
anti-semitic, try though we might.
"it certainly does buy into strong latent anti-semitism,especially if placed
in the context of other statements by some of the proposers." - if you carry
on with this and the boycott is adpoted then we shall have no option but to
deploy the nuclear option and describe this action as anti-semitic, thereby
ruling all debate on the pros and cons of the idea out-of-bounds, which is
what we want.
I knew being a post-modern geographer would come in handy some day!
Jon Cloke
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