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Thread #59165   Message #941337
Posted By: Art Thieme
27-Apr-03 - 02:15 PM
Thread Name: BS: What is Anti-Semitism?
Subject: RE: BS: What is Anti-Semitism?
This is just semantics---antisemantics ! ;-) ***SMILE*** **little joke** (Hell, I didn't think it'd be THAT little !!)

But seriously folks, antisemitism is what defines me as a Jew.

By that I mean that, somehow, I never had any afinity for or with the religious aspects of that faith. I never had the faith. My mother was Jewish. That is a Jew's definition of what is a Jew; if your mother wasa Jew, you are too. But in the 1940s Hitler would have put me in an oven and killed me because of that. I suspect there are arabs and white suremists who would do that too. So, I am a Jew---a Jewish person. I am also an atheist. ------ Your question was, "What is Anti-semitism?" For me, it's just a defining fact.

Art Thieme