The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #71062   Message #1213754
Posted By: artbrooks
24-Jun-04 - 05:25 PM
Thread Name: BS: UN and anti-Semitism
Subject: RE: BS: UN and anti-Semitism
IMO, Israel has the right to exist, within secure borders, as a predominately Jewish nation. Others disagree, and they have the right to their opinion. Please let's not let this devolve into yet another discussion of this.

However, I also believe that it is a gross error to equate anti-Semitism (especially in the murderous form practiced by the Nazi government during the late 1930s and 1940s) with opposition to Israel and to the present Israeli government. The opposition by the Moslem states to Israel in the UN and the positions taken by some UN bodies and described in Professor Byefsky's article have much more to do with the ongoing war between Israel and the Palestinians than they do with Israel's majority religion or ethnic origin (however you choose to define Jewish). After all, there haven't been any moves (that I've heard of) to move the UN out of New York because of the Jewish presence, even though the Jewish population of New York City is larger than that of Jerusalem and that of the metropolitan area is larger than that of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem combined.