Posts by Stephen Judd
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self-hating Jew
Boy, I hate that label too. It's one of those shut-down-the-argument-and-go-home things. Once it's brought out it's time to give up.
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Don't blame the Jews for the hijacking, Joe. "Antisemitism" is a 19th century German coinage ("Antisemitismus") and it never has been intended to denote anything other than Jew-hating.
Iranians, by the way, are largely not Semites at all. At least, about half the people who live in Iran now are Persians (and Iran is an old Persian name for the country and the Persian nation). About a quarter are some kind of Turkish (Azeris mostly). Most of the rest of Kurds. Arabs in Iran are a small minority, and I suspect they wouldn't call themselves Iranians anyway.
Now you will hear the odd Arab say "I can't be anti-semitic because I'm an Arab, and we're semites too!" We could wrangle over terminology, or we could just say Jew-hater - I really don't care.
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to be the result of a Jewish conspiracy.
It's not much of a conspiracy though is it, when it's out in the open! AIPAC are very effective lobbyists, but there's nothing covert about them.
The funny thing is that the very hard line taken by AIPAC is not at all representative of US Jewish opinion when polled. I would suggest that what Simon sees as Jewish lobbying is better characterised as US evangelical lobbying. Jesus isn't going to come back on his own, you know.
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you seem to be seeking to change the subject
Not as I see it, but then I would say that, wouldn't I?
Break a (tripod) leg and have fun.
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I don't think that's a parallel, Finn, because MEMRI focus on reports from the mainstream press.
Why don't you have a look and see what you think?
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although there are many who would claim the reverse is more accurate
And are you one of them? How does that work, exactly?
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What's the difference between MEMRI cherry-picking exteme statements, and sonic cherry-picking Hitchens?
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The reason they are awful is their antisemitism and no more need be said.
Speaking as a Jew (and one who has lived in the West Midlands and has family in Edgbaston), if someone is preaching in a Birmingham mosque that "the Jews, you kill them physically", then I hope you'll excuse me for finding that awful. I do not wish to be killed, and I do not want other people to encourage the idea.
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PS: I'm not being difficult, I can't figure out how to do the quote markup so that you can see it,
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Plus, I don't know how you do the cute thing where you quote someone else's post in pale grey...?
The instructions are to the left of the posting box - see "quote".
I like hearing the same routine twice, and I do admire the art. Maybe it's because I'm a musician and I'm into thinking about performance. And I do laugh with everyone else, even though I know it's coming - in fact if you do it right, the anticipation can be good.