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From The Times
February 16, 2009
The writing is on the synagogue wall
World depressions lead to a rise in anti-Semitism. All over Europe, the evidence is around us
Denis MacShane
The periodic crises that have shaken world capitalism in the century and a half since Marx wrote Das Kapital are marked by a common political phenomenon. It is the rise of political anti-Semitism. Attacks on Jews and Jewishness constitute the canary in the coal mine that tells us something is going seriously wrong...
...The Metropolitan Police report four times as many anti-Jewish incidents in recent weeks as Islamaphobic events. The respected Community Security Trust, which records anti-Jewish attacks with scrupulous rigour, reports as many attacks on Jews - verbal, vandalism and some violent - in the first weeks of 2009 as in the first six months of last year.
As the world enters a new era of crisis, anti-Semitism is back. History, as ever, begins to repeat itself. The slumps and stock market fever expressed in Zola's novel, L'Argent, or the populist anger against Wall Street at the end of the 19th century gave rise to the virulent anti-Semitic politics witnessed in France in connection with the Dreyfus case or the takeover of Vienna by openly anti-Semitic politicians. The Great Depression gave rise to the worst expressions of anti-Semitism ever seen, namely the politics that led to the Holocaust. But even in Britain the Duke of Wellington of the time was leader of a secret anti-Jewish organisation which had the initials PJ - Perish Judah - on its letterhead.
The economic crises of the 1970s led to a marked increase in the vote for the National Front in Britain and the openly anti-Semitic BNP, its successor extreme party, is doing very well in local elections - below the radar of the national opinion polls....
...Is it unreasonable to argue that the reason that there is worldwide anger against Israel but not against other regimes or religions that carry out massacres of Muslims is because the Israelis are Jews? Has legitimate criticism and anger against Israel allowed Jew hate to become almost acceptable politics again? Add to this a world economic crisis in which it is so easy to point at the names of the swindlers and banksters that happen to be Jewish, and a new perfect storm of anti-Semitism begins to take shape.
Today in London a conference of parliamentarians from different legislatures in Europe and around the world will gather to discuss what can be done. Michael Gove, for the Conservatives, will join Labour Cabinet ministers Hazel Blears and Jim Murphy in saying it is time for the Parliaments of the democractic world to take action against anti-Semitism - especially Islamist attacks against young Jewish students on university campuses.
The Pope embraces a Holocaust-denying Winchester and Cambridge-educated bishop; slogans such as Hamas, Hamas, Jews to the gas are chanted in Amsterdam;
Jews are again made to feel they are not full citizens of the countries of their birth because they refuse to support the right of Hamas and Hezbollah to use terror attacks against Israeli civilians. The canary in the coal mine seems in danger of its life once again.
Denis MacShane, MP, is a former Minister for Europe and the author of Globalising Hatred: the New Anti-Semitism (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
the intense dislike for and prejudice against Jewish people
You can label it anti semitism or any other name you want.
But in reality, it's just people getting feed up with the parasitic behavior of the Jews.
They enter a host country and slowly drain it of it's money and morals.
Then one day the people wake up and see that their country has been invaded by a disease.
The people then rise up and rid themselves of this debilitating human plague.
It has happened in history 109 times.
No doubt it will happen again.
I wonder if the 110 time will be America or another country?
irrelevant.
the word anti-semitism has a specific meaning.
the intense dislike for and prejudice against Jewish people
WordNet Search - 3.0
irrelevant.
the word anti-semitism has a specific meaning.
the intense dislike for and prejudice against Jewish people
WordNet Search - 3.0
So why do you abuse it?
Don't presume to correct editec if you can't restrain yourself either.
So why do you abuse it?
Don't presume to correct editec if you can't restrain yourself either.
Editec is misusing it not Jillian.
irrelevant.
the word anti-semitism has a specific meaning.
the intense dislike for and prejudice against Jewish people
WordNet Search - 3.0
Proper nounSingular
Semite
Plural
-
Semite
source
- a member of any of a number of peoples of ancient southwestern Asia including the Akkadians, Phoenicians, Hebrews, and Arabs.
- descendant of these peoples.
- a member of a modern people speaking a Semitic language.
- a descendant of the biblical Patriarch Shem.
Since not all Jews are Semitic, Jew hater is a better word.irrelevant.
the word anti-semitism has a specific meaning.
the intense dislike for and prejudice against Jewish people
WordNet Search - 3.0
It does to you, perhaps.
To the rest of us who actually care about words conveying meanings that are consitent and make sense, the Semetic people are ALL those whose language is Semetic
One who hates Jews solely is a Jew-Hater...or as I like to prefer to call them: a fucking asshole Jew-hater.
Proper nounSingular
Semite
Plural
-
Semite
source
- a member of any of a number of peoples of ancient southwestern Asia including the Akkadians, Phoenicians, Hebrews, and Arabs.
- descendant of these peoples.
- a member of a modern people speaking a Semitic language.
- a descendant of the biblical Patriarch Shem.
anti-semitism has nothing to do with palestinians.
someone who works with words, shouldn't be trying to change understood meanings to suit some other purpose.
Hey Annie! Slightly off topic but I saw the most fantastic production of Cabaret 2 weeks ago. Way better than the movie and almost as good as the books. I almost went back for a second show.Problem is, it's not just Germany:
The writing is on the synagogue wall | Denis MacShane - Times Online
From The Times
February 16, 2009
The writing is on the synagogue wall
World depressions lead to a rise in anti-Semitism. All over Europe, the evidence is around us
Denis MacShane
The periodic crises that have shaken world capitalism in the century and a half since Marx wrote Das Kapital are marked by a common political phenomenon. It is the rise of political anti-Semitism. Attacks on Jews and Jewishness constitute the canary in the coal mine that tells us something is going seriously wrong...
...The Metropolitan Police report four times as many anti-Jewish incidents in recent weeks as Islamaphobic events. The respected Community Security Trust, which records anti-Jewish attacks with scrupulous rigour, reports as many attacks on Jews - verbal, vandalism and some violent - in the first weeks of 2009 as in the first six months of last year.
As the world enters a new era of crisis, anti-Semitism is back. History, as ever, begins to repeat itself. The slumps and stock market fever expressed in Zola's novel, L'Argent, or the populist anger against Wall Street at the end of the 19th century gave rise to the virulent anti-Semitic politics witnessed in France in connection with the Dreyfus case or the takeover of Vienna by openly anti-Semitic politicians. The Great Depression gave rise to the worst expressions of anti-Semitism ever seen, namely the politics that led to the Holocaust. But even in Britain the Duke of Wellington of the time was leader of a secret anti-Jewish organisation which had the initials PJ - Perish Judah - on its letterhead.
The economic crises of the 1970s led to a marked increase in the vote for the National Front in Britain and the openly anti-Semitic BNP, its successor extreme party, is doing very well in local elections - below the radar of the national opinion polls....
...Is it unreasonable to argue that the reason that there is worldwide anger against Israel but not against other regimes or religions that carry out massacres of Muslims is because the Israelis are Jews? Has legitimate criticism and anger against Israel allowed Jew hate to become almost acceptable politics again? Add to this a world economic crisis in which it is so easy to point at the names of the swindlers and banksters that happen to be Jewish, and a new perfect storm of anti-Semitism begins to take shape.
Today in London a conference of parliamentarians from different legislatures in Europe and around the world will gather to discuss what can be done. Michael Gove, for the Conservatives, will join Labour Cabinet ministers Hazel Blears and Jim Murphy in saying it is time for the Parliaments of the democractic world to take action against anti-Semitism - especially Islamist attacks against young Jewish students on university campuses.
The Pope embraces a Holocaust-denying Winchester and Cambridge-educated bishop; slogans such as Hamas, Hamas, Jews to the gas are chanted in Amsterdam;
Jews are again made to feel they are not full citizens of the countries of their birth because they refuse to support the right of Hamas and Hezbollah to use terror attacks against Israeli civilians. The canary in the coal mine seems in danger of its life once again.
Denis MacShane, MP, is a former Minister for Europe and the author of Globalising Hatred: the New Anti-Semitism (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
You can label it anti semitism or any other name you want.
But in reality, it's just people getting feed up with the parasitic behavior of the Jews.
They enter a host country and slowly drain it of it's money and morals.
Then one day the people wake up and see that their country has been invaded by a disease.
The people then rise up and rid themselves of this debilitating human plague.
It has happened in history 109 times.
No doubt it will happen again.
I wonder if the 110 time will be America or another country?
REMIND US AGAIN, how you have nothing against Jews?
You can label it anti semitism or any other name you want.
But in reality, it's just people getting feed up with the parasitic behavior of the Jews.
They enter a host country and slowly drain it of it's money and morals.
Then one day the people wake up and see that their country has been invaded by a disease.
The people then rise up and rid themselves of this debilitating human plague.
It has happened in history 109 times.
No doubt it will happen again.
I wonder if the 110 time will be America or another country?
REMIND US AGAIN, how you have nothing against Jews?
Why don't you remind us how you have nothing against muslims first, rapture boy.
REMIND US AGAIN, how you have nothing against Jews?
Why don't you remind us how you have nothing against muslims first, rapture boy.
Yet that wasn't the topic. What is the percentage of Jews in Europe? Palestinians? Rates of crime? Rates of being a victim of hate crime? Crimes against mosques? Crimes against synagogs?
Problem is, it's not just Germany:
The writing is on the synagogue wall | Denis MacShane - Times Online
... slogans such as “Hamas, Hamas, Jews to the gas” are chanted in Amsterdam; ...
