Friday, July 21, 2023
8:05 AM
Elder of Ziyon
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One of the most bizarre things about antisemitism is that even the worst antisemites all insist that they do not hate Jews.
We looked at a most egregious example before, when in the early 1930s the Nazis denied that they were antisemitic. As long as Jews stayed in their own lane, they said, they would have no problems.
But that has been a consistent pattern. Here are three examples I came across in the past day.
Here is an article from the Manchester Evening News, exactly 100 years ago, July 21, 1923:
The good people of Edmonton didn't have a problem with Jews, no, of course not. But they really hated that Jews mourned their dead so loudly and publicly. It scares the children! It obscures their views! The real British citizens - meaning Gentiles - would be upset!
And then, as an afterthought, the last sentence of the article that says, of course, we won't allow Jews to be buried in the municipal cemetery that is meant for all citizens. Obviously, Jews couldn't be British.
Moving on to today, two Arabic language articles also say that Jews are OK, as long as the antisemites get to define what Jews are.
In the Palestinian Shfa News, an "expert" named Ghassan Abu Najm argues that Jews aren't a people or a nation, but merely a religion - a hardly new lie, and he leans on fraud Shlomo Sand for his analysis. But the underlying theme is the same: they don't hate Jews as a religious sect; only Jews as a nation.
From a completely different angle, political analyst Abdel Samad Belkabir says that the Jews in Morocco have a long and illustrious history, and Moroccans do not have a problem with the Jews, but rather with "distorted Talmudic Judaism."
And this is what the anti-Zionists of today do as well. They don't hate Jews, they just hate Jewish nationalism which has been a core component of Judaism since Biblical times.
Everyone recognizes antisemitism - except when it comes from them.
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