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Who is an anti-Semite?

First, the formalities: Yes, of course, you can be critical of Israel and not be anti-Semitic or a bad Jew.

Saying as much has become rote in these discussions, so let me go further.

I consider myself a staunch Zionist, but I wouldn’t deny that Israel has sometimes done foolish, even immoral things in its dealings with a very hostile Arab world. I would place under this heading (to take two examples) Israel’s recent use of cluster bombs in Lebanon and the general course of its settlement policies in the occupied territories.

But anti-Semites aren’t just “critics” of Israel; they are people who hate Israel and the Jewish people and want to see harm come to them. It is easy to get caught up in definitional tangles here, so let me try examples.

My list of present-day anti-Semites (to kept the task practicable) would start with Hamas, Hezbollah, al Qaeda, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and Bashar Assad. It would include Jean-Marie Le Pen, and the French ambassador who a few years ago confided to friends in Britain that he considered Israel “a shitty little country,” and (come to think of it) much of the French foreign ministry.

My catalogue would have entries for David Duke, David Irving, Louis Farrakhan, Mel Gibson, Mel Gibson’s father, the Saudi-funded King Fahd Academies that are sprouting up in Western capitals, the mini-series of “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion” recently produced for Egyptian television, the Turkish movie blockbuster “Valley of the Wolves, Iraq,” with its depiction of an American Jewish doctor who harvests and sells the organs of hapless Iraqis. Anyway, you get the idea.

What about Tony Judt, Tony Kushner, Stephen Walt, John Mearsheimer, Jimmy Carter, and all the other supposed recent martyrs to the cruel vindictiveness of the pro-Israel machine? I think they are wrong about most things -- naïve and simple-minded in their history and politics, too forgiving of Arab hatred and intransigence, too quick to find fault with the Jews. But they write, it seems to me, out of sympathy for the Palestinians, worries about American power and influence, and other venial motives.

Are they anti-Semites? No. That’s a distinction we need to reserve for a different class of offenders.

(Gary Rosen is managing editor of Commentary.)

By Gary Rosen |  February 23, 2007; 11:45 AM ET
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Is it possible Christians in the West support Jewish Israel more than Christians of the Middle East?

Lebanon has 43% of its population as Christians. They were Christians and initiated their traditions since Jesus time itself and one of the first Christians. 400 years Before Constantinople.

This pro-Judaism in the name of Christianity is pure blasphemy.

No one can even label Lebanese as anti-semitic. They are Semitic people themselves!

Posted by: Lebanese Inner Circle | June 25, 2007 3:53 PM
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lib- which demeaning passages in particular?

this reminds me of a scene in amadeus where the foppish king when asked to critique the latest work from mozart flippantly replied "there are too many notes."

mozart countered with "which notes would you have me remove?"

Posted by: victoria | March 13, 2007 1:55 PM
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Victoria,

No one is listening to you until you have the maturity shown by renouncing and condemning of the militaristic and demeaning passages of the Koran.

Posted by: Concerned The Christian Now Liberated | February 26, 2007 5:37 PM
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it doesnt matter if what i say has meaning or not to you or anyone- the previous post is written by rabbis against zionism-

so all that matters is if what they say has meaning- and it does

Posted by: victoria | February 26, 2007 4:05 PM
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Victoria,

And the Islamic "wishy wash" continues. First things first!!! Renounce and condemn the militaristic and demeaning passages of the Koran then what you say might have some meaning.

Posted by: Concerned The Christian Now Liberated | February 25, 2007 3:03 PM
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Ten questions to the Zionists
by Rabbi Michael Dov Weissmandl ZT"L
Dean of Nitra Yeshiva

1.

IS IT TRUE that in 1941 and again in 1942, the German Gestapo offered all European Jews transit to Spain, if they would relinquish all their property in Germany and Occupied France; on condition that:
a) none of the deportees travel from Spain to Palestine; and
b) all the deportees be transported from Spain to the USA or British colonies, and there to remain; with entry visas to be arranged by the Jews living there; and
c) $1000.00 ransom for each family to be furnished by the Agency, payable upon the arrival of the family at the Spanish border at the rate of 1000 families daily.
2.

IS IT TRUE that the Zionist leaders in Switzerland and Turkey received this offer with the clear understanding that the exclusion of Palestine as a destination for the deportees was based on an agreement between the Gestapo and the Mufti.
3.

IS IT TRUE that the answer of the Zionist leaders was negative, with the following comments:
a) ONLY Palestine would be considered as a destination for the deportees.
b) The European Jews must accede to suffering and death greater in measure than the other nations, in order that the victorious allies agree to a "Jewish State" at the end of the war.
c) No ransom will be paid
4.

IS IT TRUE that this response to the Gestapo's offer was made with the full knowledge that the alternative to this offer was the gas chamber.
5.

IS IT TRUE that in 1944, at the time of the Hungarian deportations, a similar offer was made, whereby all Hungarian Jewry could be saved.
6.

IS IT TRUE that the same Zionist hierarchy again refused this offer (after the gas chambers had already taken a toll of millions).
7.

IS IT TRUE that during the height of the killings in the war, 270 Members of the British Parliament proposed to evacuate 500,000 Jews from Europe, and resettle them in British colonies, as a part of diplomatic negotiations with Germany.
8.

IS IT TRUE that this offer was rejected by the Zionist leaders with the observation "Only to Palestine!"
9.

IS IT TRUE that the British government granted visas to 300 rabbis and their families to the Colony of Mauritius, with passage for the evacuees through Turkey. The "Jewish Agency" leaders sabotaged this plan with the observation that the plan was disloyal to Palestine, and the 300 rabbis and their families should be gassed.
10.

IS IT TRUE that during the course of the negotiations mentioned above, Chaim Weitzman, the first "Jewish statesman" stated: "The most valuable part of the Jewish nation is already in Palestine, and those Jews living outside Palestine are not too important". Weitzman's cohort, Greenbaum, amplified this statement with the observation "One cow in Palestine is worth more than all the Jews in Europe".

There are additional similar questions to be asked of these atheist degenerates known as "Jewish statesmen", but for the time being let them respond to the ten questions.

These Zionist "statesmen" with their great foresight, sought to bring an end two two-thousand years of Divinely ordained Jewish subservience and political tractability. With their offensive militancy, they fanned the fires of anti-Semitism in Europe, and succeeded in forging a bond of Jew-hatred between Nazi-Germany and the surrounding countries.

These are the "statesmen" who organized the irresponsible boycott against Germany in 1933. This boycott hurt Germany like a fly attacking an elephant - but it brought calamity upon the Jews of Europe. At a time when America and England were at peace with the mad-dog Hitler, the Zionist "statesmen" forsook the only plausible method of political amenability; and with their boycott incensed the leader of Germany to a frenzy. And then, after the bitterest episode in Jewish history, these Zionist "statesmen" lured the broken refugees in the DP camps to remain in hunger and deprivation, and to refuse relocation to any place but Palestine; only for the purpose of building their State.

The Zionist "statesmen" have incited and continue to incite an embittered Jewish youth to futile wars against world powers like England, and against masses of hundreds of millions of Arabs.

AND THESE SAME ZIONIST "STATESMEN" HEEDLESSLY PUSH THE WORLD TO THE BRINK OF ANOTHER TOTAL WAR - REVOLVING ENTIRELY AROUND THE HOLY LAND.

What may befall the Jewish inhabitants of Palestine, of the Arab crescent, Europe, or the USA; is of no concern to these Zionist leaders. The rising anti-Semitism in the Western World is the product of their "statesmanship".

Under the guise of "love of Israel", the Zionist "statesmen" seduced many Jews to replace devotion to the Torah and its Sages with devotion to the scoundrel who founded Zionism. It is of no little significance that Herzl originally sought conversion of the Jews as a solution to the problems of the Diaspora. When he realized that this was not acceptable to the Jewish masses, he contrived Zionism as a satisfactory alternative!

Posted by: victoria | February 25, 2007 11:22 AM
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Oops, make that "Islam, like Judaism and Christianity, is founded on gossip and hearsay making literal belief in the Koran for any reason a significant problem."

Posted by: Concerned The Christian Now Liberated | February 25, 2007 3:18 AM
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Ashfaq,

First, the 24/7 butchering of fellow Muslims by the Sunnis and Shiites make Islam a sham when it comes to government (and anything else of a worthy nature) since both are following the militaristic and demeaning book supposedly written by your illiterate founder.

Second, Islam like Judaism and Christianity, are founded on gossip and hearsay making literal believe in their good books and god(s) for government guidance a real problem.

Third, so you do not support the Islamic government of Iran. Good!!!!!

Posted by: Concerned The Christian Now Liberated | February 24, 2007 11:52 PM
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YOu write: "What about Tony Judt, Tony Kushner, Stephen Walt, John Mearsheimer, Jimmy Carter, and all the other supposed recent martyrs to the cruel vindictiveness of the pro-Israel machine? I think they are wrong about most things -- naïve and simple-minded in their history and politics, too forgiving of Arab hatred and intransigence, too quick to find fault with the Jews. But they write, it seems to me, out of sympathy for the Palestinians, worries about American power and influence, and other venial motives."

Venial motives? Since when is sympathy for a people who have had their land stolen from them venial? This is nothing but a crude attempt to silence critics of Israel. Go read Illan Pappe's "The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine" or Benny Morris' "The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem" and tell me about venial motives. Did the Irgun killers of Dier Yassin have venial motives? Did Sharon have venial motives when he incited the massacre of 2400 innocent Palestinian refugees at the Sabra and Chatilla refugee camps during his invasion of Lebanon? Was dropping cluster bombs in Lebanon and destroying the infrastructure of entire country as group punishment of all Lebanese for the actions of Hezballah venial? Commentary is well known as an apologist mouthpiece for Israel, and this essay is more of the same. Just like all the other attempts to smear critics of Israel with the charge of anti-semitism, this is nothing but a crude attempt to silence public discussion on an important question.

Posted by: Garak | February 24, 2007 10:42 PM
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I am against the state of Israel because of its policies against non-Jewish peoples. I wish to see the government of this country disassembled and replace with Islamic rule. Islamic rule has been the most just amongst all other forms of ruling wherever it has been established. I am not talking about the current form of ruling in the Muslim world which is not Islamic ruling but tyrannical ruling (Which is created and supported by the US and other western nations for their own material gains). I am talking about thhe kind of rule which took place in Spain before the Inquisition during which time the three mono-theistic faiths (Christianity, Judaism, & Islam) lived side by side in peace.

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Posted by: victoria | February 24, 2007 1:12 PM
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Gibson said he was sorry for words he spoke while drunk and being placed under arrest. Yet he is still considered an anti-Semite by the author.

Gibson asked a man if he was a Jew and also stated that Jews were responsible for all the wars. He didn't say Israel should be destroyed and all Jews executed or forced to live in wall-off ghettoes.

Gibson then he apologized for the things he did say. Does Gibson believe that Jews are responsible for the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, and Sudan? Those were the wars taking place when Gibson made his "all" statement. In fact, Israel was invading Lebanon for the first time in decades when Gibson was arrested. Is Israel the wedge issue that divides America and the Islamic world? Is that what Gibson meant?

We cannot discuss such things in the land of the free.

Posted by: Ralph | February 24, 2007 12:42 PM
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Being muslim I believe and have faith in All Prophets of jews, so how come we(Muslims) hate jews?

Posted by: Waqar Haider | February 24, 2007 11:01 AM
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How could youpossibly interpert christianity to be anti-semitic? Jesus(ata) was jewish-

The Qur'an likewise commands its adherents to respect the People of the Book who are jews and christians.

You've managed to insult 3 different religions with no substance added to the discussion.

And all 3 are from semitic peoples.

Posted by: victoria | February 24, 2007 10:27 AM
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Many ancient civilizatins have had their own gods or gods that they believed favored their particular people. But the Jews invented a God who was at the same time the only God and they were his only people. This created resentment against them. When they refused to extend this God to others -- as Christianity and Islam did --this increased the resentment vw. them even more. This is the source of antisemitism: a universal God interpreted in a particularistic way.

Anti-semitism thrives because it is inherent in Christianity and in Islam. These religions see in the Jews or project onto the Jews their own sins and failings. The Jews are very convenient enemies.

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Ba'al

Are you reading the texts of the President of Iran's speeches translated by MEMRI? Perhaps the President of Iran should be made to visit a Holocaust museum next time he visits the United States, but he is not allowed in. He should be educated perhaps. Unless he is doing it to get attention from the west. He got your attention.

On the Holocaust, do not assume many people in Africa and Asia fully know the extent of it or even have heard of it. In the history books of Asians and Africans, the last century is focussed on the independence movements of their respective countries.

As for WWII, what happened in Europe is discussed generally. Southeast Asian and East Asian hisstory textbooks focussed on the Japanese occupation and atrocities in their respective lands.

World War II is discussed generally in the texts, and the Holocaust is part of the larger picture. Asian and African history books are mostly in their own languages. In fact, Africa and South America went through WW II relatively unscath by battles.

Currently, there is not a whole lot of books on sale in Asia and Africa on the Holocaust, if available, only in English too. Can't expect Asians and Africans to know too many details of the Holocaust, nor are there any Holocaust museums in Asia or Africa.

Go to a village in Asia or Africa and they would never have heard of it. Even urbanites who may know would not quite have the historical and religious knowledge and passion of Americans and Europeans on it. We have our own genocides in Africa and Asia, after WW II and till now.

Do take into consideration that some of us are are either ignorant of what happened in other places and are insensitive of them. Or both.


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Wel- exactly what have we heard that Ahmadinejad has said? I read 2 speeches of his but the topic of israel was not mentioned- he was accused of saying israel should be annhialated recently- but he actually said zionism should be wiped out-

there were orthodox jews at the holocaust denial summit he hosted recently-

in france it is punishable to be imprisoned if you deny the armenian "genocide"(in parantheses because the neither side has provided convincing evidence yet)

in austria a man was just released from prison for 3 years for denying the holocaust-

do we imprson people for having unpopular ideas?

we are preparing to go to war with iran right now- it was announced quietly 3 days ago-

i dont think we should go to war with iran because their president is a holocaust denier-
or to protect israel-

where is the israeli support for america in iraq?

sharon clearly and viciously hated muslims and arabs- should we have gone and asassinated him for his racism?

i honestly have not read much of what ahmadinejad has written- only 2 speeches and they were very progressive- so im not in a position to know how he feels honestly-

being a holocaust denier isnt necessarily the same as being a jew-hater- just like being a denier of the armenian holocaust in turkey doesnt mean at all that you are an armenian hater (this is very true in turkey where most turks deny the genocide of armenians but most have little animosity personally towards armenians)

now take mel gibsons dad- he was outspokenly anti-semitic- but hes not ina positio to hurt anyone much so we dont pay attention too much-

i know the iranian population is very young and well educated- and getting more progressive-
i really dont know much of what ahmadenijad has to say- perhaps you could find something to post=

i am an anti-zionist and a muslim- but i certainly dont hate- dislike or am even apathetic towards jewsish people- actually i love some -

we have to be careful how we express ourselves and especially the language we use- as it is powerful and easy to misunderstand ones intentions-

thats why i express my views so clearly and there is no way to misunderstand.

there are defnitely and without question people againt the political state andideology of zionism-

their relationship and love fo jewish people is not related (always)

here are some links to jewish relious people who are anti-zionist

well 1- if i post 2 it wont go through

http://www.jewsagainstzionism.com/

Posted by: victoria | February 24, 2007 2:52 AM
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Victoria,

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is a holocaust denier and it is impossible to read what he says and not conclude that he hates Jews. He is clearly one class of "Israel critic" and he is not alone in being a member of this class.

But most critics of Israel do not hate Jews, indeed many ARE Jews. The fall into a completely different class.

So I am trying to understand your point. Do you disagree with what I just wrote?

Posted by: Ba'al | February 24, 2007 12:05 AM
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I do believe you can be opposed to Zionism and not very happy about Israel without being classified as anti-semite. Which I might add is a bit wrong when used to constrict semites to Jews only.

First, a wrong by the nations of Europe, especially the Nazi Germans, is not remedied by given the lands of other victims to the Jews based on the Jewish religios fables.

Second, while for many years a romantic supporter of Israel; the Israelis have become liars and thieves. Israel ignores international law and UN mandates in regard to returning to its boundaries scantioned by threaties and UN rights, Isreal has been a real bad occupation force, and as the latest lash out at Lebanon has demonstarted an immoral destructive force in the ME. In Lebabnon, they destroyed the only real force that could have provided some support, killed thousands of innocents; used weapons of mass destruction indescrimantely; and again ignored UN and world law as they used improper and disproportunate force.
The fact that BushCo supported and incouraged Israeli actions is an argument for its illigitamcy, rather than a claim for a justification.
That Israel maintains "doomsday" nuclear weapons is not acceptable either.
Frankly I see no good reason to support Israel and I can not even begin to envison world peace as long as Israel squats on Palestinain lands.

Posted by: Leo | February 23, 2007 10:21 PM
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mr rosen seems to have greatly confused anti-zionism
( a politicalmovement started by atheists)

with jewishness- ( adherents to the religion of judaism)

critics of israel are anti-zionists they are not anti-semitic

mr rosen is victim to the human behavior that transcends relgious, national or racial divides--

namely- we accuse others of what we ourselves are guilty of-

but you certainly have a right to speak sir

Posted by: victoria | February 23, 2007 7:00 PM
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Mr. Rosen.

You said:

"But anti-Semites aren’t just “critics” of Israel; they are people who hate Israel and the Jewish people and want to see harm come to them."

And so, why do they hate Israel?

Wait, you are the Managing Editor of Commentary. Of course. Don't have to answer.

We have a list of Islamophobes too: Ann Coulter, Pat Robertson, Cal Thomas, Jerry Falwell, EU, neocons, Commentary, Fox Network, et al. The list goes on and on........

Posted by: Jihadist | February 23, 2007 6:01 PM
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muslim on net- well literally an sematically correct-
we would call arab haters---anti-semites

American Heritage Dictionary -
Sem·ite (sěm'īt')

1. A member of a group of Semitic-speaking peoples of the Near East and northern Africa, including the Arabs, Arameans, Babylonians, Carthaginians, Ethiopians, Hebrews, and Phoenicians.
2. A Jew.
3. Bible A descendant of Shem.

however the phrase has been co-opted by public opinion to include the secondary meaning of anti-jew-

which happens when words are widely used in one context- the first context sometimes gets forgotten-

the term widely diseminated after 911 is islamophobe (irrational fear of islam)

Posted by: victoria | February 23, 2007 5:43 PM
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Marco Polo,

Do you mean the gossiping Buddha? If history is any gauge, yes indeed!! I believe Professor Borg, an On Faith panelist, has a book out comparing the sayings of Buddha to those of Jesus i.e. Jesus and Buddha: The Parallel Sayings. http://amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw/104-9260102-9709565?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=borg+buddha&Go.x=10&Go.y=10

Posted by: Concerned The Christian Now Liberated | February 23, 2007 5:40 PM
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isn't that how the other religions got started too?

Posted by: Marco Polo | February 23, 2007 4:07 PM
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Problems also arise with the foundations of the Judaism, Islam and Christianity:

1. Abraham is the reported founder of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Based on all we know now, Abraham was at best a combination of three separate individuals with 1.5 million Conservative Jews no longer believing he existed at all. (ditto for all the characters in the OT).
references: National Georgraphic review on Abraham and http://www.answersingenesis.org/docs2002/0401torah.asp
2. The founders of Christianity and Islam were both illiterate. i.e. neither one proofread or approved the NT or the Koran so we are taking the word of scribes and embellishers with their own agendas.
references: NT exegetes from the last two hundred years, Karen Armstrong's reviews of Islam and http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/theories.html
3. Christianity is based on the words and deeds of Jesus, the whim of Pilate, the false prophesy of the imminent second coming, and the sword of Constantine.
references: NT exegetes and their conclusions/books from the last two hundred years
Conclusion: the Jewish, Christian and Islamic religions have very little foundation to rely on.

as a footnote:

As per a recent On Faith commentaries about the militaristic, demeaning and outdated Koran written in the name of the illiterate "prophet" Muhammed:

A summary of the Koran: (from recent On Faith commentators)

"After reading the Quran for the first time, I had this bizarre vision....
I saw Muhammed sitting in a room, whispering these words to another man, "I need a drink of water". Then THAT man whispered words to the next person...and so on and so on....out the door, down the street, up the hill.....
the person sitting on top of the hill was scribbling furiously. He jumps up and yells:
"ALLAH NEEDS TO DRINK THE OCEAN FOR US TO SURVIVE!"
It's an old game, called "Gossip" (aka religious foundations)

Posted by: Concerned The Christian Now Liberated | February 23, 2007 3:52 PM
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We call those people Republicans.

Posted by: Marco Polo | February 23, 2007 2:33 PM
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And what do we call Arab haters and "Moslem" haters?

Posted by: Muslim on Net | February 23, 2007 2:22 PM
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Honest intellectual criticism from scholars and former presidents = a "different class of offenders."

How typical.

Posted by: speed123 | February 23, 2007 1:48 PM
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