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Thread #79324   Message #1436343
Posted By: Wolfgang
16-Mar-05 - 04:31 PM
Thread Name: BS: A discussion - What is antisemitism? .
Subject: RE: BS: A discussion - What is antisemitism? .
I don't hate them...I simply object to their political behaviour (Little Hawk)

Their? That's how anti-semitism has started. (I know you don't mean what you say in that sentence)

"I hate Jews" did sound so ugly and plebeian in the Germany of the late 19th century, "I am an anti-semit" just sounded so much nicer and academic. That's how that term started and that was exactly what was meant. To understand 'anti-semitic' from the meaning of 'semite' was a rhetoric trick (I think) from Sadat: How can I be anti-semitic when I'm a semite myself?

All that discussion from that angle is wrong and completely ahistoric.

Wolfgang