ADL sees 'pandemic of anti-Semitism'

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ADL sees 'pandemic of anti-Semitism'


Abe Foxman

US Jewish leader Abraham Foxman says Israel's military offensive in Gaza answered with hatred, attacks against Jews 'from Austria to Zimbabwe.' Civilized world must stand up and say 'No' to condemn 'this vicious, hideous violence,' he adds
Reuters

Israel's recent war in Gaza has unleashed the worst outbreaks of anti-Semitism in decades, the US head of the Anti-Defamation League said on Friday.
 
"This is the worst, the most intense, the most global that it's been in most of our memories. And the effort to get the good people to stand up is not easy," Abraham Foxman told Jewish community leaders in a speech in this south Florida resort city.
 

Foxman said Israel's military offensive against the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, which began in the Gaza Strip in late December, had been answered with hatred and attacks against Jews "from Austria to Zimbabwe."
 
Most governments were doing too little to stem "an epidemic, a pandemic of anti-Semitism," he said.
 
Israel's military invaded Gaza in a three-week offensive launched in late December, which Israeli leaders said was intended to stop Hamas from launching rocket attacks on Israel from the small territory.
 
Medical officials said the Israeli offensive killed 1,300 Palestinians, including 700 civilians, prompting widespread international complaints that Israel had used excessive force.
 
The Anti-Defamation League said recent anti-Jewish attacks triggered by the Gaza conflict ranged from the shooting of two Israelis by a man of Palestinian descent in Denmark to attacks on synagogues in Venezuela, Greece, Chicago and elsewhere.
 
In Turkey, an Israeli basketball team fled from the court after a crowd turned on them, calling them "killers." In Toulouse, France, last month an attack on one synagogue involved two cars packed with fire bombs.
 
Foxman said that in protests around the world, the Star of David had been equated with the Nazi swastika and Jewish leaders were threatened. There had also been calls for boycotts of Jewish businesses in South Africa, Italy, Turkey and France.
 
"We need to insist that the civilized world stand up and say 'No' in every single country in the international arena to condemn this vicious, hideous violence," said Foxman, whose organization is a global leader in the fight against anti-Jewish crime.
 
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[Dave the ABC NO RIO guy.]

I constantly get called an Anti-semite because of my anti-occupation stance. While I agree that anti-Judaism  is rampant I also think the word Anti-Semite  gets thrown around too much by Zionists who can't produce a rational argument. I do my best to boycott companies who fund Israel in anyway. No religion can justify the slaughter of millions and occupation.
Anti-Occupation not anti Jewish. Also the term anti Semitic is inaccurate because the Palestinians are technically a Semitic people. 

[duck monster]

I constantly get called an Anti-semite because of my anti-occupation stance. While I agree that anti-Judaism  is rampant I also think the word Anti-Semite  gets thrown around too much by Zionists who can't produce a rational argument. I do my best to boycott companies who fund Israel in anyway. No religion can justify the slaughter of millions and occupation.
Anti-Occupation not anti Jewish. Also the term anti Semitic is inaccurate because the Palestinians are technically a Semitic people. 

I don't think appealing to the argument 'palestinians are semites' is really useful though. Most people understand that anti-semetism menas "Racism against jewish people", so pointing out the semetic background of palestinians doesn't really do much other than try and pick a hole in the argument with semantic loop holes. Ths unfortunately always going to come across as a bit dishonest.

I do agree about an anti-occupation stance, and I dont think its anti-semetic stance, anything more than a stand about the rights of displaced people.

Ultimately calling people who dont like the occupation anti-semetic ignores the role of the millions of jewish people who ALSO find the occupation of palestinian territories as a violent act of imperialism.

[Y_I_Otter]

I don't think appealing to the argument 'palestinians are semites' is really useful though. Most people understand that anti-semetism menas "Racism against jewish people", so pointing out the semetic background of palestinians doesn't really do much other than try and pick a hole in the argument with semantic loop holes. Ths unfortunately always going to come across as a bit dishonest.

I do agree about an anti-occupation stance, and I dont think its anti-semetic stance, anything more than a stand about the rights of displaced people.

Ultimately calling people who dont like the occupation anti-semetic ignores the role of the millions of jewish people who ALSO find the occupation of palestinian territories as a violent act of imperialism.

'Anti-Semitism' was coined by the German author and Jew-hater Wilhelm Marr late in the 19th century as a better way of expressing contempt for Jews than Judenhaß, or Jew hatred. It's never meant anything else.