Shulamit Aloni, former Israeli Minister of Education in an interview from 2002

"Well, it's a trick, we always use it. When someone criticizes Israel in Europe, we remember the Holocaust. When people criticize Israel in this country, it means they are anti-Semites. And this organization is strong, it has a lot of money, and the ties between Israel and the American Jewish establishment are very strong, and they are strong in this country, as you know. And they have the power, and that's ok (...) They are talented people, and they have power and money, and the media, and other things, and their attitude is: "Israel, my country, is it good or bad." And they are not ready to hear criticism. And it is very easy to accuse people who criticize certain actions of the Israeli government of anti-Semitism, mention the Holocaust and the suffering of the Jewish people, and thereby justify everything we do with the Palestinians."