Re: Gentlemen's Agreement

El Castor <anyonethere@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:hNudne0oNNzWWCbZnZ2dnUVZ_rqdnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxx:


Rita <nitany_98@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 09:14:41 -0700, Islander
<nospam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Personally, I've never let anyone get by with an
anti-semitic remark without speaking up. Once "ruined" a
dinner party by doing so. I do ignore some of the nut cases
ranting to this newsgroup but never in real life. Same goes
for blanket statements about the supposed attributes of
other groups. I don't have many chances to so speak out
however as I avoid like the plague the kinds of people who
are prone to this kind of thing. Some in this group equate
any criticiism of Israel with anti-semitism, but I don't
think that is what you are talking about?

You let Gary get away with it on a daily basis. And just who
in this group "equates any criticism of Israel with
anti-semitism"? That particular phrase is one that in my
opinion is most often used by anti-semites as a cover story.

"It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of what he was
never reasoned into." Jonathan Swift



Just so we use the correct terms.
Note that Websters includes antizionism/antiIsraeli comments as
antisemetic.
from Wiki (hardly an unbiased source) on antizionism definitions
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In addition to a conventional definition of anti-Semitism
("hostility toward Jews as a religious or racial minority group,
often accompanied by social, political or economic
discrimination"), the unabridged edition of Webster's Third New
International Dictionary, originally published in 1961 and
reprinted in 2002, gives a controversial second and third
definition to anti-Semitism, defining the word as "opposition to
Zionism" and "sympathy for the opponents of Israel". (The modern
college editions based on Webster's Third all omit the second
definition of "anti-Semitism.") The American-Arab Anti-
Discrimination Committee has mounted a campaign to get this
definition removed. Representatives of Webster were quoted as
saying that those definitions were "relics" inadvertantly left
in the dictionary from decades ago and that they would probably
be absent from the next edition. [5][6]

A Merriam-Webster company spokesman defended the definition as
"a relic" based on a handful of citations from about 1950 in
which anti-Semitism was "linked more or less strongly with
opposition to Israel or to Zionism." The spokesman also stated
that the sense wasn't supported by current usage, and added that
it would probably be dropped when the company publishes a new
unabridged version in a decade or so. However, the company said
it was beyond its means to send out correction sheets to all
libraries.[7]

Ken Jacobson, the associate national director of the Anti-
Defamation League, urged Merriam-Webster to retain the
definition. "Zionism is the national expression of the Jewish
people," he told the New York Times, "and to deny that, it seems
to me, most often reflects anti-Semitic views."[


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So Jews want to keep antiIsraeli comments classified as
antisemitic.

It helps to confuse the issue and promotes name calling.
.