OTOH Chloe doesn't have to use the phrase, and can still support the Palestinian cause, don't provide your opponents the stick they use to beat you with.
However neither should she now apologise - that's weakness. She said it, it's on the record, you defend it, like Norman Finkelstein did his remarks after 7th October. Once you apologise, you're doomed, as Corbyn and many others found out. . After all, the Jewish people in Israel probably invented this phrase in describing the homeland in the first place.
Jemes Shaw had the same problem with his support of this private ecological school in the South Island. He probably wasn't politically wise to support it in the circumstance, but he had perfectly rational reasons for doing to, he should have stuck to his guns.
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