"Peter Terry" <mombassa@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/665/op1.htm


Israel and Zionist organisations are becoming increasingly dependent

the charge of "anti- Semitism" as a political weapon. Individuals and
organisations, indeed entire nations and societies, have found

so

besmirched.
Anti-Semitism has a very precise definition. It refers to remarks or

targeting the ethnic group termed Semites, which comprises both Jews and
Arabs.

------------
Oh, please. Everyone in the world, with the possible exception of you and

"Peter Terry" <mombassa@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/665/op1.htm


Israel and Zionist organisations are becoming increasingly dependent

the charge of "anti- Semitism" as a political weapon. Individuals and
organisations, indeed entire nations and societies, have found

so

besmirched.
Anti-Semitism has a very precise definition. It refers to remarks or

targeting the ethnic group termed Semites, which comprises both Jews and
Arabs.

------------
Oh, please. Everyone in the world, with the possible exception of you and
Alex Seredin, knows that anti-semitic means anti-Jewish.
Best regards,
--Cindy S.

Oh, please. Everyone in the world, with the possible exception of you and
Alex Seredin, knows that anti-semitic means anti-Jewish.
Best regards,
--Cindy S.

"Peter Terry" <mombassa@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:3fc00f12_1@news.iprimus.com.au...

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/665/op1.htm


Israel and Zionist organisations are becoming increasingly dependent upon
the charge of "anti- Semitism" as a political weapon. Individuals and
organisations, indeed entire nations and societies, have found themselves

so

besmirched.
Anti-Semitism has a very precise definition. It refers to remarks or acts
targeting the ethnic group termed Semites, which comprises both Jews and
Arabs.

------------
Oh, please. Everyone in the world, with the possible exception of you and
Alex Seredin, knows that anti-semitic means anti-Jewish.
Best regards,
--Cindy S.

"Peter Terry" <mombassa@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:3fc00f12_1@news.iprimus.com.au...

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/665/op1.htm


Israel and Zionist organisations are becoming increasingly dependent
upon the charge of "anti- Semitism" as a political weapon.
Individuals and organisations, indeed entire nations and societies,
have found themselves

so

besmirched.
Anti-Semitism has a very precise definition. It refers to remarks or
acts targeting the ethnic group termed Semites, which comprises both
Jews and Arabs. Israeli and Zionist media and political forces have
warped this definition in several ways. Above all they have
manipulated the concept of Semitic ethnicity so as to apply to Jews
alone, thereby enabling them to level the allegation of anti-Semitism
against the Arabs in spite of the

fact

that they constitute the majority of the Semitic peoples. In
addition,

they

have stretched the definition of anti-Semitism to include any
criticism of Israel and Israeli policy. Thus, anyone who speaks out
against the aggression and inhumane practices inflicted against the
Palestinian people by Israeli occupation forces risks being branded
"anti-Semitic".

The label "anti-Semitic" has acquired enormous deterrent power.
Israeli

and

Zionist forces have rallied their enormous network of relations and
vested interests to disseminate such a climate of terror as to
forestall any discussion of Israeli policy or actions that might
somehow be construed as adverse. Even in academic circles, for
scholars or researchers to so much

as

broach certain subjects is enough to set off the charge of anti-
Semitism. As a consequence entire fields of scholastic inquiry have
entered the constantly expanding list of Israel's taboos.

Several weeks ago the "anti-Semite" weapon was unleashed with
particular fury in response to an opinion poll conducted by the
European Commission

on

those countries that posed the greatest threat to world peace. Hardly
were the results -- which ranked Israel as the foremost threat --
announced

than

the Israeli media and Zionist organisations lashed out relentlessly

against

European societies and cultures, which were summarily dismissed as
anti-Semitic.

That the same accusation should be hurled, as it frequently has been,
at

the

Arabs is particularly curious given that it hardly stands to reason
that a Semitic people would direct this form of racist hostility at
themselves. This phenomenon has been noted by Shmuel Gordon who, in
an article

appearing

in Ma'ariv of 19 November, wrote: "The Hebrew Encyclopedia defines
anti- Semitism as all manifestations of hatred and racism directed
against Semites. It follows that anti-Semitism also comprises all
manifestations

of

hatred and racism directed against the Arabs." He goes on to observe
that contempt for the Arabs in Israel has reached such a peak that in
Saturday evening salons, on the football fields and in the markets it
is common to hear such slurs as "the Arabs are murderers," "they have
no morals," "terrorism is their policy," "you can never trust them,"
"the papers they sign are worthless," "death to the Arabs" and "the
only good Arab is a

dead

Arab."

The title of this article -- "Israeli anti- Semitism" -- is most
appropriate. Confident in having monopolised the field as Semites, so
as

to

hurl "anti-Semite" at all and sundry who criticise Israel, Zionist
leaders have helped shape a media that spews the most atrocious
racist abuse

against

others. Naturally, as Gordon pointed out, when such abuse is directed
against the Arabs it is, by definition, anti-Semitic, and it only
takes a sampling to demonstrate how rabid the Israeli media is.

The Israeli Hebrew-language Web site -- walla.co.il -- posted
responses to news of the recently published UN Report on Human
Development and its recommendations for the development of the
information community in the

Arab

World. One commentator on this site remarked that the recommendations

would

be of no avail "since the Arabs, because of their education, religion
and systems of government will continue to lag behind for generations
to

come".

"Here's another subject for the genetic garbage can," scoffs another.
"A nuclear bomb would solve the problem for good," writes a third. A
fourth raves, "The Arabs are garbage... This shows the type of people
we are dealing with: human refuse!" On the same Web site we find
responses to the Geneva agreement concluded by teams of Palestinian
and Israeli intellectuals. Not atypical was the commentator who
described it as "a

deal

with animals".

The Sharon government's decision to continue aerial assaults against
residential areas in the West Bank and Gaza and the refusal of
several Israeli pilots to participate in these assaults because of
the toll of innocent civilians occasioned considerable commentary in
the Israeli

media.

Of particular note was the following, which appeared on the Ma'ariv
Web site: "Hats off to Ariel Sharon for returning to the glorious
days of Unit 101. That's the answer the people have been waiting
for." Unit 101 was a Zionist paramilitary group notorious for its
massacres of Arab civilians. Nor was this commentator alone. Another
exhorted the Sharon government to "keep up the cleansing operation
and make it systematic." A third

remarked,

"There's no such thing as 'innocent' with the Arabs." And a fourth:
"When will they understand that there will never be peace as long as
there are Arabs."

Such bloodthirstiness is widespread. On walla.co.il came the
following response to the news that the Israeli army had killed three
Palestinians

one

morning: "Thank you IDF. You've made my day. Keep up the good work."
Maariv.co.il reports that, following the suicide bombing in Maximes
restaurant in Haifa a Jewish doctor declared that the Palestinians
should

be

"wiped out" using "dumb bombs". On this same Web site came the
following response to this report: "The matter is very simple. It's
either us or

them.

They are the ones who chose this way a long time ago, the proof of
which

is

in how they have been inculcating their young for years."

All this racist venom, with its genocidal undertones, merely echoes
the poisonous invective Israeli political and religious leaders have
spouted

for

years. Certainly, such anti-Arab slurs, stereotypes, abuses, calls
for

blood

and other forms of Israeli anti-Semitism rank with the war crimes
Israeli forces perpetrate daily on the direct orders of their
political leaders.

There remains, however, the question as to how the Arabs can best

safeguard

and promote their rights in the face of this racist onslaught and the
spurious claims spread by Zionist organisations and the Israeli ultra

right.

European public opinion has had its say: Israel presents the foremost

threat

to world peace. The Arabs should take this as a signal to act. We
must

work,

along with other peace loving, egalitarian peoples, to drive home to
world opinion that Israel is a conventional occupying power and a
racist state that practices in word and deed some of the cruelest
forms of

anti-Semitism

against the Arabs.

http://www.hyperdictionary.com/dictionary/anti-Semitism

This link will define Anti-Semitism for you.

"Peter Terry" <mombassa@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:3fc00f12_1@news.iprimus.com.au...

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/665/op1.htm


Israel and Zionist organisations are becoming increasingly dependent

the charge of "anti- Semitism" as a political weapon. Individuals and
organisations, indeed entire nations and societies, have found

so

besmirched.
Anti-Semitism has a very precise definition. It refers to remarks or

targeting the ethnic group termed Semites, which comprises both Jews and
Arabs. Israeli and Zionist media and political forces have warped this
definition in several ways. Above all they have manipulated the concept

Semitic ethnicity so as to apply to Jews alone, thereby enabling them to
level the allegation of anti-Semitism against the Arabs in spite of the

fact

that they constitute the majority of the Semitic peoples. In addition,

they

have stretched the definition of anti-Semitism to include any criticism

Israel and Israeli policy. Thus, anyone who speaks out against the
aggression and inhumane practices inflicted against the Palestinian

by Israeli occupation forces risks being branded "anti-Semitic".

The label "anti-Semitic" has acquired enormous deterrent power. Israeli

and

Zionist forces have rallied their enormous network of relations and

interests to disseminate such a climate of terror as to forestall any
discussion of Israeli policy or actions that might somehow be construed

adverse. Even in academic circles, for scholars or researchers to so

as

broach certain subjects is enough to set off the charge of anti-

As a consequence entire fields of scholastic inquiry have entered the
constantly expanding list of Israel's taboos.

Several weeks ago the "anti-Semite" weapon was unleashed with particular
fury in response to an opinion poll conducted by the European Commission

on

those countries that posed the greatest threat to world peace. Hardly

the results -- which ranked Israel as the foremost threat -- announced

than

the Israeli media and Zionist organisations lashed out relentlessly

against

European societies and cultures, which were summarily dismissed as
anti-Semitic.

That the same accusation should be hurled, as it frequently has been, at

the

Arabs is particularly curious given that it hardly stands to reason that

Semitic people would direct this form of racist hostility at themselves.
This phenomenon has been noted by Shmuel Gordon who, in an article

appearing

in Ma'ariv of 19 November, wrote: "The Hebrew Encyclopedia defines anti-
Semitism as all manifestations of hatred and racism directed against
Semites. It follows that anti-Semitism also comprises all manifestations

of

hatred and racism directed against the Arabs." He goes on to observe

contempt for the Arabs in Israel has reached such a peak that in

evening salons, on the football fields and in the markets it is common

hear such slurs as "the Arabs are murderers," "they have no morals,"
"terrorism is their policy," "you can never trust them," "the papers

sign are worthless," "death to the Arabs" and "the only good Arab is a

dead

Arab."

The title of this article -- "Israeli anti- Semitism" -- is most
appropriate. Confident in having monopolised the field as Semites, so as

to

hurl "anti-Semite" at all and sundry who criticise Israel, Zionist

have helped shape a media that spews the most atrocious racist abuse

against

others. Naturally, as Gordon pointed out, when such abuse is directed
against the Arabs it is, by definition, anti-Semitic, and it only takes

sampling to demonstrate how rabid the Israeli media is.

The Israeli Hebrew-language Web site -- walla.co.il -- posted responses

news of the recently published UN Report on Human Development and its
recommendations for the development of the information community in the

Arab

World. One commentator on this site remarked that the recommendations

would

be of no avail "since the Arabs, because of their education, religion

systems of government will continue to lag behind for generations to

come".

"Here's another subject for the genetic garbage can," scoffs another. "A
nuclear bomb would solve the problem for good," writes a third. A fourth
raves, "The Arabs are garbage... This shows the type of people we are
dealing with: human refuse!" On the same Web site we find responses to

Geneva agreement concluded by teams of Palestinian and Israeli
intellectuals. Not atypical was the commentator who described it as "a

deal

with animals".

The Sharon government's decision to continue aerial assaults against
residential areas in the West Bank and Gaza and the refusal of several
Israeli pilots to participate in these assaults because of the toll of
innocent civilians occasioned considerable commentary in the Israeli

media.

Of particular note was the following, which appeared on the Ma'ariv Web
site: "Hats off to Ariel Sharon for returning to the glorious days of

101. That's the answer the people have been waiting for." Unit 101 was a
Zionist paramilitary group notorious for its massacres of Arab

Nor was this commentator alone. Another exhorted the Sharon government

"keep up the cleansing operation and make it systematic." A third

remarked,

"There's no such thing as 'innocent' with the Arabs." And a fourth:

will they understand that there will never be peace as long as there are
Arabs."

Such bloodthirstiness is widespread. On walla.co.il came the following
response to the news that the Israeli army had killed three Palestinians

one

morning: "Thank you IDF. You've made my day. Keep up the good work."
Maariv.co.il reports that, following the suicide bombing in Maximes
restaurant in Haifa a Jewish doctor declared that the Palestinians

be

"wiped out" using "dumb bombs". On this same Web site came the following
response to this report: "The matter is very simple. It's either us or

them.

They are the ones who chose this way a long time ago, the proof of which

is

in how they have been inculcating their young for years."

All this racist venom, with its genocidal undertones, merely echoes the
poisonous invective Israeli political and religious leaders have spouted

for

years. Certainly, such anti-Arab slurs, stereotypes, abuses, calls for

blood

and other forms of Israeli anti-Semitism rank with the war crimes

forces perpetrate daily on the direct orders of their political leaders.

There remains, however, the question as to how the Arabs can best

safeguard

and promote their rights in the face of this racist onslaught and the
spurious claims spread by Zionist organisations and the Israeli ultra

right.

European public opinion has had its say: Israel presents the foremost

threat

to world peace. The Arabs should take this as a signal to act. We must

work,

along with other peace loving, egalitarian peoples, to drive home to

opinion that Israel is a conventional occupying power and a racist state
that practices in word and deed some of the cruelest forms of

anti-Semitism

against the Arabs.

http://www.hyperdictionary.com/dictionary/anti-Semitism

This link will define Anti-Semitism for you.