As per yesterday's article - the mayor of Leicester says he can't be antisemitic, because he doesn't mean to harm Jews. Regardless of whether what he's doing is actually good or bad for Jews.
That's why he can have very serious concerns about Israel, but not about such human-rights champions like Russia or China, and it's not antisemitic at all.
The mayor of Leicester, the tenth largest city in the United Kingdom, has denied that the city council's decision to boycott goods from Israeli settlements in the West Bank was an anti-Jewish or anti-Semitic act, the Leicester Mercury reported.
"This is not in any way a question of being anti-Jewish," said Sir Peter Soulsby, a member of the Labor Party. “It is a question of having very serious and well-founded concerns about the behavior of the Israeli state, which is a very different thing from being in any way hostile to any particular religious group."
More: Haaretz
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