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Thread #122763   Message #2696890
Posted By: Jim Carroll
10-Aug-09 - 08:32 AM
Thread Name: Anti-Semitism : A Mon Like Thee
Subject: RE: Anti-Semitism : A Mon Like Thee
I'm not Jewish either, but I'm afraid that my take on the subject of anti Semitism is a little different to that of VB.
During the period I spent in Manchester in the mid 60s, many of my friends and acquaintences were working-class Jews, also very politically aware people. This was twenty years after the horrors of the Holocaust and there was still a great deal of sensitivity surrounding the subject, the rabid right by then having turned their attention to the people coming to Britain from the former colonies.
In the intervening period things have altered radically and once again racism, irrespective of colour or ethnic origin, is back on the menu, thanks to our blackshirted friends.
Their drive for respectibility in order to make gains via the ballot box makes it doubly necessary to be aware of the fact that they may have altered their tactics somewhat over the last ten years or so, but they haven't gone away.
I am always very wary of all forms of racist expression, as harmless as it often seems; I find the folk club "oy vey" morons particularly stomach-heaving in the 'rich jew' context.
But that's me!
Jim Carroll