I hate it when people write “anti-Semitism” rather than “antisemitism” so I change it when ever I see it. Ted Belman
Prosor: Use the tools that are used against us.
By Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu, INN
European Jewish lawyers have launched a ”lawfare” project to fight antisemitism, modeling the program on the American-based Anti-Defamation League (ADL).
Jewish legal experts announced the program at a conference of Jewish lawyers in Brussels last week, the European Jewish Press reported.
A task force was established “in light of the increasing and constant growth of antisemitism in the whole of Europe and the campaign to delegitimize Israel using traditional and new forms as well as legal means,” a resolution said.
The task force comprises five lawyers from France, Germany and Britain.?
Ron Prosor, Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations and formerly the envoy in Britain, told the conference, “One should begin to stand up and use the tools that are used against us.”
ADL National Civil Rights Director Deborah Lauter advised, “Laws will not eliminate antisemitism….”We will never eradicate antisemitism if we cannot reach people’s hearts and minds. Taking anti-Semites to court is not by itself going to solve the problem.
“We need education and to work with coalition partners, to develop school curricula that teach why antisemitism is wrong. But we also need to call on our political, civil and religious leaders to speak out forcefully against antisemitism,”
Howard Gutman, the American ambassador to Belgium, pre-warned the conference his remarks would not be “what you would expect me to say.”
He said he does not think antisemitism in Europe is growing. Gutman followed up by blaming the Palestinian Authority-Israeli disagreements for creating tensions that prevent a reduction in antisemitism.
Yes, I got that — a while back, when I saw your first post. Gave me a chuckle.
Carry on!
Dweller: >>>>>Even Jews can be antisemites; every generation has them. In fact, the Wilhelm Marr whom you mention: who coined the term — in an 1879 pamphlet, entitled “The Way to Victory of Germanicism Over Judaism,” a vicious attack on Jews — was himself an apostate, half-Jew. Karl Marx, the baptised grandson of two rabbis, was likewise the author of pointedly antisemitic articles and tracts. So anybody can be an antisemite — it’s not an exclusive club “off-limits” to Jews.<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
And that is most unfortunate. The Jewish self haters (the psychological processes behind this are more complex than the name, but the self hater description is commonly used) are more dangerous cuturally than the regular antisemites. Antisemites always point to Jews who agree with them — even David Duke does that, pointing to some nut of Jewish descent.
p.s. If you see my website, my name is just a joke on the antisemites saying the U.S. is Zog (zionist occupied government). If the U.S. is Zog, then I am the hero of Zog: UNDERZOG!
Yes; precisely my point in #3, above.
The term has never — I repeat: never, ever — been used to characterize hatred of Arabs as Arabs. It may well be possible to hate Arabs as Arabs, and such will surely be a species of bigotry when it occurs — but when it does, it is in no sense a variety of ‘antisemitism.’
It is worthy of note, incidentally, that this recent attempt to play cutesy word games to deflect attention from the ugliness of Jew-hatred on the part of Arabs specifically (and their similarly disingenuous apologists) is itself by no means new.
When, in the company of his Palestinian-Arab cohorts, Hajj Amin al-Husseini — Grand Mufti of Jerusalem [and who was also President-for-Life of the Supreme Muslim Council, President of the World Islamic Congress, and President, as well, of the Palestine Arab Higher Committee] — made common cause with the Third Reich during the Second World War, German propagandists went to extraordinary lengths to eliminate the use of the term “antisemite” in official Nazi publications, and to replace it with alternative language (e.g., “anti-Jew,” “anti-Zionist,” etc) precisely in order to avoid the absurd & outlandish possibility that they might even conceivably be thought to be lumping the object of their hatred, the Jews, together with this vital Nazi ally, the Arabs. (Fancy that.)
The bottom line here is that an Arab who hates Jews-as-Jews most certainly is every bit as much an antisemite as anybody else can be.
Even Jews can be antisemites; every generation has them. In fact, zog, the Wilhelm Marr whom you mention: who coined the term — in an 1879 pamphlet, entitled “The Way to Victory of Germanicism Over Judaism,” a vicious attack on Jews — was himself an apostate, half-Jew. Karl Marx, the baptised grandson of two rabbis, was likewise the author of pointedly antisemitic articles and tracts. So anybody can be an antisemite — it’s not an exclusive club “off-limits” to Jews.
It was Lillian Freudman, author of Antisemitism in the New Testament that explained why one should use the word, antisemitism.
I think she explained that with the hyphen, one can get confused and believe anti-semitism is someone who is against Jews and Arabs; however, in spelling it without the hyphen; e.g., antisemitism, it is more firmly fixed that it is against the Jews. William Marr (sp) who coined the term explicitely made it apply to Jews and Jews only!
Lawfare was successfully used to stymie the “Flotilla Of Fools” this summer. The same weapons Israel’s enemies against it can be turned back on them. And its paying off.
Bullies and cowards run for the tall grass when they’re challenged.
They write it that way either
A. because it gives them a basis to proceed from there to giving Arabs a pass on their Judeopathy by saying of them, “Arabs can’t be anti-Semites; after all, they ARE Semites”
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B. because in their shallow naivete they can’t conceive that anybody might HARBOR such ulterior motives.
Ted, about this “antisemitism” stuff. As a plain-talking guy, I call it Jew-hatred.
Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI
Doomed to fail. This is an undertaking that could have come out of the retard Herman Cain’s addled mind.