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Here’s a good way to make everybody angry at Israel.

Israel’s ambassador to Australia says he has never seen so much hatred toward Jews as he has in this country in a 26 year-long diplomatic career, declaring modern “blood libel” myths are being normalised and the nation could face more antisemitic terror and violence. 

Take your war home with you, mate. We have our own battles to fight. And before anybody accuses me of anti-Semitism, please recall I told exactly the same thing to the Palestinian marches. This is not our war. Our entire history is a three-way battle between colonialism, Catholicism, and Protestantism. The Levant isn’t featured, and the populations from there remain infinitesimal.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific's leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.
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