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Thread #96535   Message #1892776
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
24-Nov-06 - 06:26 PM
Thread Name: BS: Hamas new tactic
Subject: RE: BS: Hamas new tactic
I'm afraid I don't quite get that second sentence. I take it as axiomatic that anti-semitism is a bad thing. (So does Joseph Masser evidently - it's worth reading that article, and not just the quotes I picked out).

It's clearly impossible to be against anti-semitism and at the same time anti-Jewish. The broader definition just means that it similarly impossible to claim to be against anti-semitism and to be anti-Arab.

Words change (eg "What is folk?"), and there is no reason to accept the definitions imposed by the 19th century racists who invented this one.