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Thread #79324   Message #1436077
Posted By: Little Hawk
16-Mar-05 - 10:42 AM
Thread Name: BS: A discussion - What is antisemitism? .
Subject: RE: BS: A discussion - What is antisemitism? .
I just saw a terrific show by Chuck Brodsky, a Jewish folksinger. He talked a lot about Jewishness and had some songs that touched on Jewish issues, as well as many other great subjects. I loved it. I loved him.

I detest Israel's political and military policies of the last five decades and regard Israel as a fascist state which is engaging in a form of subtle genocide on Palestinians.

"Anti-Semitic" is the most abused and manipulative hateword in history at this point. It is used to muzzle legitimate comment on Israel's destructive policies. It is used to intimate people and to destroy their careers. It is used to blackmail people and silence them. It is the tool of those who are themselves guilty of the very thing they accuse others of...blanket hatred of others based upon a narrow tribal/cultural/group identity.

The article is a good one, and it was written by a Jew. He is a Jew with the courage to address this issue, and he will no doubt be roundly condemned by various other Jews for daring to shed light upon this sacred cow of modern Zionism...called "Anti-Semitism".

It's a misnomer anyway. Sephardic Jews are Semites. Palestinians are also Semites. European Jews are for the most part not semites, although they are Jews. To be a Jew can be seen as a religious trait, a cultural trait, a question of who one's parents were, etc... To be a semite is simpler. It just means you are descended from a specific group of tribal people from the ancient Middle East. And that applies to the Sephardic Jews and the Palestinians and various other Middle Easterners.

The ridiculous sitation we have in the World now is a political group of largely non-Semitic Jews persecuting various actual real Semites in the Middle East, while accusing anyone who criticizes their aggressive actions of being "Anti-Semitic"!

That's doubletalk. It's the great big phony lie, used to cover over the landgrabbing policies of Zionism. And it's so bad that almost no one except someone born and raised a Jew dares to openly challenge it in the media, for fear of being labelled an "Anti-Semite" of all things. Shades of Joe McCarthy and Josef Goebbels.