Re: Ex-President for Sale


"cindys" <cstein1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Really? Where are all these people who think there is debate-stifling
going
on? You've been here for weeks now, and the only person who seems to
continue to insist that Jimmy Carter isn't antisemitic and that debate is
being stifled continues to be you.
Best regards,

I wonder if this might benefit Quondam? Anyways, I think it is a most
excellent read and I hope that everyone here that has not seen it before
will take the time to do so.... I didn't really want to start a new thread
just in case it is old hat here at SCJM.....

Anti-zionism as an Expression of Anti-Semitism in Recent Years

This is a translation of a lecture held on 10 December , 1984 at Study
Circle on World Jewry in the home of the President of Israel


I have set out to trace some of the links between anti-Zionism and classical
anti-Semitism as they have found expression in recent times. This task is
all the more urgent as it has become increasingly apparent since the early
1970s that there has been an orchestrated campaign against the Jewish State,
Zionism and the Jewish people as a whole, a campaign whose impact
constitutes a serious threat to our status in the world and ultimately to
our very existence. This campaign has now acquired such a global dimension
and resonance that I believe it can be compared to the threat posed to Jews
by Nazism in the period of its upsurge - before it assumed governmental
power; this in spite of the very considerable differences in the status of
the Jews and attitudes towards them in the non-Jewish world which existed
then and which obtain now. In spite of all the positive changes which
occurred in the wake of the Holocaust, the last decade with its cumulative
anti-Zionism has led to a dangerous regression which calls into question the
over-optimistic assumptions of the 1950s and 1960s. Then it was still
believed that Israel would constitute a completely new beginning and by its
very existence lead to the gradual disappearance of anti-Semitism in the
gentile world. In fact, the opposite has happened. Not only have
anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism, historically distinct and even antithetical
ideologies, become interrelated: Israel itself is today the prime cause and
pretext of a partly novel form of anti-Semitism, as puzzling as it is
disturbing.


I will focus on two aspects only, of this phenomenon, both of which are
interconnected and which have assumed particular importance in the last four
or five years: the attempt to stigmatize Israel as a "Nazi" state, and the
parallel campaign by some anti-Zionist circle to rewrite the history of the
Holocaust as a Zionist conspiracy or as a collaboration between Nazis and
Zionists to murder the Jewish masses in Europe. The very extremism of such
claims makes it tempting to dismiss them as the sick product of a lunatic
fringe which no sane person could possibly take seriously and which could
never hope to influence public opinion. Unfortunately, this is not quite the
case and bitter experience has taught us that such paranoid distortions of
reality can reach a wide audience and exercise a fateful impact on the
future. Moreover, it is precisely the equation of Zionism with Nazism which
is in my opinion the most characteristic mode of the new anti-Semitic
anti-Zionism in the early 1980s, one which inverts all our assumptions and
therefore deserves special attention and
consideration.............................

The rest can be found here.

http://sicsa.huji.ac.il/Antizionism.htm




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