marksimons Posted January 27 Report Share Posted January 27 a rrrather good article I thought, from The Nation.In 1879 the German journalist Wilhelm Marr, a former socialist and anarchist, founded an organization that was novel in two ways. It was the first political party based on a platform of hostility to Jews. And it introduced the world to a new word: "anti-Semite." Marr was an atheist, and the Antisemiten-Liga (League of Anti-Semites) was hostile to Jews on the secular grounds that they are an alien "race." However, his account of "Semitism" was not essentially different from the demonic conception of the Jew that had existed in Christian Europe for centuries. It boiled down to this: Jews are a people apart from the rest of humanity. They are the enemy. Wherever they go, they form a state within a state. Conspiring in secret, they work together to promote their own collective advantage at the expense of the nations or societies in whose midst they dwell and on whom they prey. Cunning and manipulative, they possess uncanny powers that enable them, despite their small numbers, to achieve their ends. The term "antiSemitism" has come to refer to this discourse, or variations on the themes it contains, because the same rhetoric persists whether Jewish identity is seen as religious, racial, national or ethnic. Sometimes this discourse is explicit; at other times it is the subtext of attacks on Jews. Anti-Semitism, thus defined, is not new.rest of article here...http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20040202&c=1&s=klug Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamiroguy1 Posted January 27 Report Share Posted January 27 Good read. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
druwishprincez Posted January 27 Report Share Posted January 27 That may be how the term anti semitism came to be, but that crap about jews is bullshit! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marksimons Posted January 28 Author Report Share Posted January 28 yeah, that's the anti-semitic view of jews...that's no where near the whole article there... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
druwishprincez Posted January 28 Report Share Posted January 28 Yeah well do you actually know any jewsih people?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marksimons Posted January 28 Author Report Share Posted January 28 yes.I've even met a guy who works at the Knesset as researcher for a political party there.did you read the whole article though? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
druwishprincez Posted January 28 Report Share Posted January 28 no I didnt even notice there was more....I probably shouldnt be posting when I havent got much sleep:blank: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
druwishprincez Posted January 28 Report Share Posted January 28 well the basics are is that theyre talking about the stereoype of a jew correct? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marksimons Posted January 28 Author Report Share Posted January 28 yeah, and other things, how the stereotype came about, why it is blatently wrong, and then they move on, to discuss zionism, anti-zionism anti-sematism, and how one is not the other, and other things.just give it a read when you have more time, it's an intelligent, well-written article that is food for thought. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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