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The ideology of anti-Semitism was created in 1879 by German pamphleteer Wilhelm Marr. He put a modern, Darwinian gloss on ancient anti-Semitic myths by positing that Jews were innately inferior because of racial characteristics handed down through generations. Well-meaning activists often say that even though Hitler was defeated, anti-Semitism was not. But in this narrow sense, anti-Semitism was largely defeated. Hardly anyone makes a scientific case for Jewish inferiority anymore. But Jew-hatred, like a virus, survives by adapting to changing conditions. Todays version focuses on a new evil, as Ms. Omar calls it. The French diplomat Daniel Bernard might have put it most concisely when he said in 2001: All the current troubles in the world are because of that sy little country, Israel.
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks has pointed out that Jew-hatred is usually justified by appeals to a cultures highest authority. During the Middle Ages, that was religionso the Jews were charged with killing Jesus. During the Enlightenment it was science, so Jews were deemed an inferior race. Todays highest source of authority is human rightsso Israel is portrayed as the worst violator. Opponents insist that it is possible to be critical of the Israeli government without being anti-Jewish. Thats true of any country, though it almost never needs to be saidso why is it so often repeated when it comes to the Jewish state? Because criticism of Israel so often is accompanied by simple hatred of the Jews.
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After Holocaust survivor Mirelle Knoll was brutally murdered in her Paris apartment a year ago, a memorial march in her honor was planned. Hours before the march, the office of the Union of French Jewish Students at the Sorbonne was ransacked and defaced with graffiti like Viva Arafat and death to Israel. And the charter of Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip, mentions the struggle against the Jewnot the Zionist23 times. Israels greatest sin, according to the Hamas charter: Israel, by virtue of its being Jewish and of having a Jewish population, defies Islam and the Muslims.
For anti-Zionists, the verdict against Israel is set before the trial. Its an old hate with a new mask. If the U.S. House wont condemn it, who will?
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MosheFeingold
(3,051 posts)Hatred of Jews is justified because of lies spread about Israel because we Jews have dual loyalty.
And irrational and factually-challenged criticism of Israel is not an attack on Jewish people, but rather a country.
Its a doublethink so impressive that I am surprised it didnt make its way into 1984.
Cudos to the propagandists who can say both with a straight face! Impressive ability to double speak!