Saturday 26 December 2009

ANTISEMITSM INCIDENCES


The Heresy Of Rosenthal
Atlantic Online (blog)
Two days ago it was reported that anti-Semitic incidents in France more than doubled last year. Ninety-five percent of the Jordanians and Egyptians have ...
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The War On Hanukkah | AnAtheist.Net
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Ok, so it's actually more like a few isolated incidents than an actual war. That still seems to make it more of a genuine conflict than anything associated with. ... The “war on Christmas” may be nothing more than the demented fiction of Fox News pundits, but the war on Hanukkah – the result of a deeply ingrained anti-Semitism – is as real as the ruined menorahs left in its wake. Dear Santa: Please don't bring me anything this year. Really. Instead, I ask only that you ...
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Organ Stealing Israel Screams Anti-Semitism | MPACUK – Empowerment ...
I don't believe anyone has denied two incidents. Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wed, 23/12/2009 - 12:39pm. Rabbis arrested for trading body parts in the USA through connections in Israel. TRUE. Ten years ago a rogue hospital ...
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Watchdog: British anti-Semitism doubled after Gaza war "Britain is setting a shameful new record in anti-Semitic incidents this year," Liberal Democrat ...

Orwell on English anti Semitism

Writing not long after World War II, George Orwell noted that "prejudice against Jews has always been pretty widespread in England," but the depredations of Hitler had caused a lull in public expression of such sentiments. During the war, many came to realize that "this is not a time to throw stones at the Jews." But even though a taboo had set in, this hardly altered underlying sentiments: "Many people who would perish rather than admit to anti-Semitic feelings," wrote Orwell, are nonetheless "secretly prone to them."
Zionism established a Jewish state to end 2000 years of unrelenting persecution of and discrimination against the Jews, culminating in the Holocaust. To describe this effort to escape racism as itself racist defies reason. Worse, by seeking to deprive the jews of their own state and and return them to the status of perpetual victim, anti Zionism is engaged in the very racism that it falsely accuses Israel of. This is the illogic and the immorality at the heart of the anti Zionist position.

For those who are interested, full text of this article by George Orwell is freely available online, for example here:

http://orwell.ru/library/articles/antisemitism/english/e_antib

I find his observations and analysis very interesting. That, I think, is the ultimate proof that antisemitism was far from being unique to Germany at the time. It is (and always has been) pandemic, and in fact much worse in some countries outside of Germany. The fact that holocaust was carried out there is merely a matter of historic coincidence. Same thing could have happened everywhere, and I won't even go into the plentiful assistance nazis received in occupied countries.

Ironically, if you do a quick Google search, you will easily find that George Orwell is often accused on antisemitism, LOL. And why?.... Because of his anti-zionist opinions! How effing predictable...

"The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

Yes, this is interesting in an historical sense, although this is history, rather than politics.


Did you ever hear of a fellow named De Toqueville? He was a Frenchman who visited the US in I believe the 1830's. He kept a careful journal of his observations of how Americans behaved, what they believed and thought, which he published. It has been in print ever since and is still looked to and cited for insight into the American character, not withstanding the fact that it is over 170 years old. His journal is not dismissed as history because he had such a keen eye, and certain fundamentals of the AMerican character have not changed.

Orwell was one of the most insightful observers of pre and Post War European politics. His insights are certainly worth reading his analysis and considering the extent to which it is still relevant. But it would be an enormous error to simply dismiss someone of Orwell's stature as irrelevant because he didn't write publish in yesterday's London Times.
Zionism established a Jewish state to end 2000 years of unrelenting persecution of and discrimination against the Jews, culminating in the Holocaust. To describe this effort to escape racism as itself racist defies reason. Worse, by seeking to deprive the jews of their own state and and return them to the status of perpetual victim, anti Zionism is engaged in the very racism that it falsely accuses Israel of. This is the illogic and the immorality at the heart of the anti Zionist position.