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She has endorsed the writings of Gilad Atzmon, a controversial Israeli-born British writer and musician who has often been accused of antisemitism, saying his account of "what it means to be Jewish ... makes me awfully glad I was raised a Methodist." [16]


Berlin has been criticized for being anti-Semitic after she posted a speech on her private Facebook account, blaming Jews for the Holocaust. According to a JTA article published in the Jewish Journal, "[T]the original tweet, sent Sept. 30 from @freegazaorg, read that `Zionists operated the concentration camps and helped murder millions of innocent Jews.' It linked to a video of Eustace Mullins, a conspiracy theorist, claiming that the word `Nazi' combines the words `National Socialist' and `Zionist.' Mullins died in 2010." [17] Berlin says she sent the speech by mistake to a wider audience than intended, having only meant it for her personal Facebook account, and apologized for doing so. She had previously posted a link to a 1943 Nazi propaganda film Im Wald von Katyn.

Abunimah does not believe Berlin’s excuses, and demands an explanation for her words, basically accusing her of not telling the truth, and promoting racism. Reading this piece, Abunimah shows how Greta Berlins explanation is a lie, and really leaves her no room for manoeuvre.

Here’s the thing. Abunimah’s title is strangely subdued: “Greta Berlin’s statement is not correct”. What statement? If you didn’t know what Berlin had said about Jews and Nazis, you wouldn’t be remotely interested in Abunimah’s post.

This tells me that Abunimah is engaging in damage limitation, because he sees how unattractive this kind of aggressive anti-Zionism really looks, when it is so obviously racist. So I’m not sure he really believes what he’s saying.

The thing is, Ali Abunimah’s website isn’t much better at all. Abunimah encourages antisemites of similar stock to Greta Berlin, to write for the Electronic Intifada.