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Is this anti-Semitic sentence?
With all the due respect to Moses and those among the Jews who are truly faithful, we consider Israel a war criminal.
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- Anonymous6 years agoFavorite Answer
Technically, no, since Israel 'claims' not to be a theocracy. If Israel wants to claim that it's not Jewish, then it must accept that being anti-Israel isn't anti-Semitic.
Also, I would just like to add that the word "anti-Semite" was a word created about Jews against Jews. It referred to the animosity that grew up between Ashkenazi Jews and Semitic Jews. All Jews are not Semitic Jews, thus all Jews are not Semites, thus the term anti-Semite is a misnomer when talking about people who are anti-Jew.
- Anonymous6 years ago
Yes it is anti-Semitic. The way it is written seems to be an insult to Jews in general with an effort to hiding behind a statement about Jews of old. When it says that there is respect to "Jews who are truly faithful, it infers that Israel is not faithful, when of course they are.
Also a country can no be a war criminal. A person can but not a country, so the sentence is wrong too.
- allonyoavLv 76 years ago
Yep- it tries to conflate the Jewish religion and those who observe it with a secular state. Israel is a state with Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Bahai, etc citizens. the moment you included Jews in the sentence you took it away from criticism of Israel into criticism of Judaism and thus it became anti-Semitic.
And a note- Benjamin clearly has zero knowledge of the etymology of the word "anti-Semite"! It was coined by a 19th century anti-Semite by the name of Willem Marr who wanted something more scientific sounding than "Judenraas" (Jew hatred). He coined the German term "antisemitzme" which then became the English anti-Semitism. His lies that it was coined by one set of Jews to attack another is typical of the lies of anti-Semites who are desperate to redefine the word since it so clearly defines what they are!
- Anonymous6 years ago
I'm anti-Zionist and support Palestinian land considering Israel wasn't a state prior to 1949 and I've seen the war atrocities committed by Israel forces on European news channels tragic
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- ✡mama pajama✡Lv 76 years ago
To answer the question, yes, you know it is, and your purpose was to troll Jews. I'm not going to click on a link posted by a bigoted troll, either.
Your bogus q reminds me of the line in the movie Talledega Nights where Ricky Bobby says..with all due respect and then curses someone and claims it was respectful because he said With all due resepct!
You have no respect for either Moses or faithful Jews.
" With all the due respect to Moses and those among the Jews who are truly faithful, we consider Israel a war criminal"
Now watch Benjamin go bananas.
Antisemitism means hatred of Jews. Jews did not coin the word. There is no accounting for the logic of bigots.
Jew haters in the 19th century coined the word to coincide with their new fangled pseudoscientific notions of "race" and "racial superiority" to promote colonialism and to declare that certain groups were superior to others.
Hebrew, the language of Torah and Jewish liturgy and the "mother tongue" is a Semitic language.
Jews make up only a very small portion of the different peoples ( both ancient and modern) that linguists describe as Semitic language speaking peoples. Technically Semitic should only refer to a common shared language base, but credit 19th century pseudoscientific Jew hating philosophers for creating the term antisemitic to mean hatred of Jews.
There isn't any accounting for the logic of Jew haters. They were proud of their term
Semitic doesn't have anything to do with Islam, Christianity or Judaism.
Jews were the targets of hatred for being Jews long before Jew haters coined the term.
The notion of Jews as "Semites" isn't a Jewish one.
Semite refers to a language base. Jews originated among the Semitic language peoples, then spread throughout the world. The notion of Jews or any other people as "Semites" began in the early 19th century among among some of the 'philosophers" of Europe, particularly French and German who were developing pseudo-scientific concepts of race. One famous speaker in particular was highly influential in spreading this toxic notion. He did not confine his racism to Jews, but his particular form of Jew hate spread to influence millions in successive generations. Ernest Renan, who lived from 1823-1892 and was from Brittany is credited with popularizing this false notion. Renan has been criticized for antisemitism because of his comments on the alleged limitations of the Semitic mentality. Renan claimed that the Semitic mind was limited by dogmatism and lacked a cosmopolitan conception of civilisation. For Renan, Semites were "an incomplete race". Ernest Renan lectured across Europe with ideas about how "Semitic races" were inferior to "Aryan races." He included the other Semitic language based peoples in this inferiority, but a very short time later as you can see the term "semite" was being used to refer to the "inferior Jews". These pseudo-scientific theories concerning race, civilization, and "progress" had become quite widespread in Europe in the second half of the 19th century. Others, especially Prussian nationalistic historian Heinrich von Treitschke actively promoted this form of bigotry. In Treitschke's writings Semitic was synonymous with Jewish. Soon after, Wilhelm Marr is credited with the popularizing the use of the word “antisemitism” to denote hatred of the “Jewish race”.In 1879, Wilhelm Marr founded the Antisemiten-Liga (Antisemitic League). While the Nazis promoted the false notion that Jews are a race, Hitler did not create it, but used it.. Jews are a nation people, Israel (tribal origin) bound by an eternal covenant of the faith (religion) of Judaism.
Isn't it funny that now Jews are even BLAMED for the irrational term that Jew haters coined to specifically refer to their hatred of Jews that they were so proud to have created they even made a LEAGUE to join. However, it was coined by non Jewish European "philosophers" and in the Oxford dictionary it still means what they created it to mean, "hatred of Jews; unfair treatment of Jews"
As I said, there is no accounting for the logic or lack thereof when it comes to bigotry.
It's irrational. the definition of SEMITIC refers to language groupings and logically antisemitic should have meant against those languages ( a strange thing to be against, but then so is Jew hate). Jews make up only a very small portion of the different peoples ( both ancient and modern) that linguists describe as Semitic language speaking peoples. Technically Semitic should only refer to a common shared language base, but the world must credit 19th century pseudoscientific Jew hating philosophers for creating the term antisemitic to mean hatred of Jews.
Despite the illogical fairly new libel that Jews created the word to somehow use to our benefit ( very strange charge indeed) Jews didn't coin/create the word antisemitic.
Pineapples aren't apples on pine trees. Butterflies aren't insects made of butter.
Language isn't always logical, either
Modern antisemitism has as its roots, the replacement theologies that demonize Jews for refusal to abandon our eternal covenant for what they've offered.