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Thread #150703   Message #3631247
Posted By: Steve Shaw
07-Jun-14 - 08:04 PM
Thread Name: BS: Small hope for Israel/Palestine
Subject: RE: BS: Small hope for Israel/Palestine
But if you think that this pertinacious use of "Nazi" on Jim's part is not 'hateful' or 'antisemitic', don't attack me. He is asking for such denunciations

No he is not. I don't give a flying fart if you call it hateful. I don't, as it happens. I call it rather too passionate a form of words for my taste and you won't catch me calling Israelis "Nazis" (not because I'm trying to be politically correct, rather that I don't think it), but hateful it isn't, in my book. In my book. But antisemitic it certainly is not. Antisemitism is an attack on Jewish people because they are Jewish people. That is simply not happening in this thread. If you really want to put that construction on it, then you'd better start examining your own prejudices. Start to be a little more honest about this. Perhaps view it from from a little more distance than you are currently doing. If you think Jim is a mortal threat to Judaism, then I'm severely wrong in thinking I've heard the last cuckoo this spring.