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Thread #166543   Message #4005716
Posted By: Jim Carroll
24-Aug-19 - 05:46 AM
Thread Name: BS: Trump Antisemitic - official
Subject: RE: BS: Trump Antisemitic - official
That anybody can provide a list of anti semitic (or so-called antisemitic) public figures is hardly surprising; anti-semitism is the oldest form of prejudice there is
That so called opponents of antisemitism use whataboutism to excuse the publicly-stated antisemitism of the most powerful man on the planet is a betrayal of the Jewish People

The problem, of course, is that the term 'antisemitism' has been re-defined to protect extreme right wing politics - it is no loner about Jews - it has become about those who claim to represent them
It is frightening to remember that, in some cases, the extremists that the term is being used to protect are behaving in the same was as did those who sent six million Jews, along with left wingers, trades unionists, Gypsies.... and those others deemed unfit for society, to their deaths in the extermination camps.
Jews who see through this behaviour and speak out against it are given their own Yellow Stars in the form of being labeled 'self-hating'
Albert Einstein and his Jewish colleagues warned against this happening in a letter to the New York Times in 1948   

Racism, bigotry and other forms of hated have now become a standard weapon in tyhe armoury of modern, right-wing extremist politics - those who support their use, actually or by pointing elsewhere, are equally a part of it
It really is time to start remembering the past before it happens again
Jim Carroll