The New Anti-Semitism

The old anti-Semitism was easy to recognize, someone said "I Hate Jews", and you knew that they were anti-Semitic. The new anti-Semitism is harder to recognize. it's disguised as anti-Israel rhetoric or pro-palewhinian screeds, but it is still anti-Semitism.

Presbyterians, college professors and even San Francisco grocery shoppers are fighting accusations of anti-Semitism.

Former President Jimmy Carter, too, is battling the label since the release of his book comparing Israel's treatment of Palestinians to South Africa's abolished apartheid policies.

Many Jewish organizations are warning of a "new anti-Semitism," a growing phenomenon of prejudice "disguised" as criticism of Israel. They say Israel's critics demonize the world's only Jewish state and single it out for behavior tolerated of other countries.

No one questions whether "old" anti-Semitism persists. In addition to explicit violence and discrimination, centuries-old biases and caricatures of Jews remain in the United States and abroad. Jews are sometimes suspected of conspiring to rule the world or the news media, among other stereotypes.

The "new anti-Semitism" is more subtle. An Israeli politician, Natan Sharansky, first set out three general themes many people now propose to define the new term. Known as the "3-D's," those themes are:

-- Demonization of Israel with comparisons to Nazi Germany.

-- De-legitimizing Israel by saying it doesn't have a right to exist.

-- Double standards that apply one set of moral standards to Israel while ignoring similar failings of other countries.

The new anti-Semitism is not just being spouted by Muslims or Aryan Race Skinheads, no this type of Jew Hating crap you can find on Leftie Blogs, College campuses, any pro-palewhinian rally and even by ex-Presidents. Israel has a right to exist, Jews have a right to exist, they are not trying to take over the world, they didn't cause the attacks of 9/11, they don't eat Christian babies, and they want to live in peace, with their neighbors if possible. And anyone that believes otherwise, needs to be pruned from the tree of humanity and burned.


Mr Minority