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Originally Posted by Fuzz
Because I don't see that as a criticism unique to Israel. For example, Ovechkin gets criticized for his loyalty to Russia. So how is it anti-Semitic? Is this example counter to the intent of IHRA?
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To actually answer your question, there is a trope about the Jews that there is some sort of secret global cabal run by them that controls either the world at large, or some industry (banking, hollywood, etc.), or some power base, and that they are secretly all beholden to this nefarious world order. So the suggestion that "the Jews are all in it for themselves" has somewhat different implications than you get when talking about a Russian being overly loyal to their homeland.
Where there's a legacy of bigotry aimed at a particular group there are always idiosyncracies, in the same way that calling black people "thugs" has a different connotation than it does for any other racial group.