I'd do some more dictionary searches later, but sure...everything's been blurred, in history and dictionaries and word-of-mouth. Anti-Jew = racist. And that's ridiculous. Even if you ARE born into a Jewish family, when you reach 15 or so you can make a choice. If you continue with the religion, it's no longer a matter of birth...you've CHOSEN to believe the stuff.

I couldn't find a Jew on a full tank of gas where I live, and I was raised to not discuss 'religion and politics'. Lots of talk about the weather, but not much else. And this is the kind of thing it leads to...a religion being equated with a race in a country passing laws against racial crimes. Come on...that's just not legitimate.

Jews have to answer for their beliefs just like everyone else, and hiding behind a 'racial' label is phony. Or so it seems.

And Raedwulf's observation about the Holocaust seems very pertinent. Maybe the over-sensitivity to 'anti-semitism' is an outgrowth of the relatively recent mistreatment of Jews in Germany. But then Arabs are semites according to the dictionary, so why are Americans beating them to death at Guantanamo?

You can't ride two horses with one ass (Woody Allen line...a Jew), and what applies to one applies to all. I just get distressed when my first Amendment is violated on a bogus pretext. If I want to criticize a Jew, I should be able to without being labelled anti-semite.

And I'll get back to that apocalyptic stuff. It's there in abundance if you look around. Man o man is it there.