Word: semitismã
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Dershowitz also commented on what he perceives as “an increase of anti-Zionism, bordering on anti-semitism??an increase in everything anti-Israel...
...here is not to preach but to insist upon my right, and others’, to a conversation full of respect and free of intimidation, one that presumes no monopolies on suffering, one in which all racism and anti-Semitism??whether against Semitic Jews, Semitic Christians, Semitic Druzes or Semitic Muslims—is equally impermissible. I am troubled that Dershowitz escaped former University President Lawrence H. Summers’ criticism when he endorsed Israel’s torture of Palestinian prisoners. And Wisse’s ghastly 1988 description of Palestinian refugees as “people...
...Thus, my concerns about Zionism are motivated by neither pro-Arab nor anti-Jewish bias, but by the fear that those who dismiss all anti-Zionism as anti-Semitism??or, equally often, as Jewish self-hatred—risk creating a self-fulfilling prophecy. If Israel’s defenders convince the world that all legitimately Jewish people are Zionists and that Jewish people are uniform in their opinions about Israel and its policies, then the convinced will conclude that condemning Israel or its policies requires them to hate Jewish people...
Wilhelm Marr introduced the terms “anti-Semitism?? and “anti-Semite” into the German language in 1879 to denote a programmatic political agenda; English-language writers soon picked it up, and in both English and German—as in a number of other languages, Hebrew included—the term refers to a programmatic political, social and cultural agenda against Jews. The added element of racial hatred differentiates anti-Semitism from the older phenomenon of religious bigotry known as anti-Judaism. The practices and policies that lead to genocide, pogroms...
...sort of instrument to the delight of hundreds of spectators. It was as though this parade erupted from the street. People in Cuba are poor, but for the most part, they are equally poor. Without class divisions, my friends told me, social divisions—like racism and anti-Semitism??don’t exist. For one second, I thought that maybe a system like this, that eliminates destructive social conflict, was the answer. So did Karl and Fidel win me over? Not exactly. As enticing as I found some aspects of the Cuban regime, I soon learned...