Liberman likens French peace summit to Dreyfus Affair

26 December 2016, 2:12 pm

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Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman slates the France’s January 15 Middle East peace conference as a “tribunal against the State of Israel,” and compares it to the Dreyfus Affair. The 1894 trial — in which Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish captain in the French army, was wrongfully accused of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment — is seen as a seminal anti-Semitic event of modern times.

“This is not a peace conference, this is a conference whose purpose is to harm Israel’s security and reputation, and it is a trial against the State of Israel,” Liberman says. “I would go further and say … that this is a modern-day Dreyfus trial. There is one difference — instead of just one Jew, the State of Israel is in the dock.”