Defacing Amy Winehouse’s statue is anti-Semitic

It’s not about Jews, it’s about Zionism. It’s not anti-Semitism, it’s pro-Palestinianism. It’s not racism, it’s social justice. 

These are the mantras and all must accept them. To do otherwise is to ‘weaponise’ anti-Semitism, to level false allegations to ‘silence’ critics of Israel. To demean, they say with the gall of the concern troll, ‘real anti-Semitism’. 

So we know that the defacing of the Amy Winehouse statue in Camden Market, that saw the late singer’s Star of David necklace covered up with a Palestinian flag sticker, is a perfectly legitimate protest against Israel’s military operation in Gaza. True, the statue’s necklace is not an Israeli flag, merely a Magen David, a centuries-old symbol of Judaism and Jewish identity, but if Jews don’t want their religious symbols attacked, they shouldn’t include them in the flag of the Jewish state. Better still, they shouldn’t have a state at all. 

It is just a sticker and just a statue.