Tyrone_Hartlan
02-12-2006, 11:16 AM
Anti-semitism is the same as any other racism, born in fear and ignroance, nutured in false propaganda and living in hate.
There is nothing positive about any form of racism, writing off an entire people as "evil" is irrational and destructive not least to the racist.
On of the particular problems about anti-semitism is that it allows the Zionists to label all critics as anti-semitic. As an anti-Zionist this worries me. They can avoid all debate and questions by simply crying "anti-semitic". Despite the existance of many Jewish organizations that oppose Zionism.
Heres some good quotes dealing with anti-Semitism:
"... a paraphrase of August Bebel: 'Anti-Semitism is the anti-Zionism of fools?'"
Daniel Lazare, "The Chosen People", The Nation, December 19, 2005, p.36. This is an allusion to Bebel's famous remark, "Anti-Semitism is the socialism of fools."
"Britain's Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks expressed this view when he argued that 'the new antisemitism -- and it is new --is a global phenomenon conveyed by Internet, e-mail, television and video, and we do not yet know how the new communications media will affect its spread. ? It is coming simultaneously from three different directions: first, a radicalized Islamist youth inflamed by extremist rhetoric; second, a left-wing anti-American cognitive élite with strong representation in the European media; third, a resurgent far right, as anti-Muslim as it is anti-Jewish"
Jonathan Sacks, "A New Antisemitism?" The Forward, June 2002.
"In The Case for Israel, Alan Dershowitz describes a good working definition of anti-Semitism as 'taking a trait or an action that is widespread, if not universal, and blaming only the Jews for it. That is what Hitler and Stalin did, and that is what former Harvard University president A. Lawrence Lowell did in the 1920s when he tried to limit the number of Jews admited to Harvard because 'Jews cheat.' When a distinguished alumnus objected on the grounds that non-Jews also cheat, Lowell replied, 'You're changing the subject. I'm talking about Jews.' So, too, when those who single out only the Jewish nation for criticism are asked why they don't criticize Israel's enemies, they respond, 'You're changing the subject. We're talking about Israel.'"
Dershowitz 2003
There is nothing positive about any form of racism, writing off an entire people as "evil" is irrational and destructive not least to the racist.
On of the particular problems about anti-semitism is that it allows the Zionists to label all critics as anti-semitic. As an anti-Zionist this worries me. They can avoid all debate and questions by simply crying "anti-semitic". Despite the existance of many Jewish organizations that oppose Zionism.
Heres some good quotes dealing with anti-Semitism:
"... a paraphrase of August Bebel: 'Anti-Semitism is the anti-Zionism of fools?'"
Daniel Lazare, "The Chosen People", The Nation, December 19, 2005, p.36. This is an allusion to Bebel's famous remark, "Anti-Semitism is the socialism of fools."
"Britain's Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks expressed this view when he argued that 'the new antisemitism -- and it is new --is a global phenomenon conveyed by Internet, e-mail, television and video, and we do not yet know how the new communications media will affect its spread. ? It is coming simultaneously from three different directions: first, a radicalized Islamist youth inflamed by extremist rhetoric; second, a left-wing anti-American cognitive élite with strong representation in the European media; third, a resurgent far right, as anti-Muslim as it is anti-Jewish"
Jonathan Sacks, "A New Antisemitism?" The Forward, June 2002.
"In The Case for Israel, Alan Dershowitz describes a good working definition of anti-Semitism as 'taking a trait or an action that is widespread, if not universal, and blaming only the Jews for it. That is what Hitler and Stalin did, and that is what former Harvard University president A. Lawrence Lowell did in the 1920s when he tried to limit the number of Jews admited to Harvard because 'Jews cheat.' When a distinguished alumnus objected on the grounds that non-Jews also cheat, Lowell replied, 'You're changing the subject. I'm talking about Jews.' So, too, when those who single out only the Jewish nation for criticism are asked why they don't criticize Israel's enemies, they respond, 'You're changing the subject. We're talking about Israel.'"
Dershowitz 2003