Posted on 02/21/2009 10:55:23 AM PST by knighthawk
Following is the keynote address by the Honourable Irwin Cotler at the founding conference of the Inter-parliamentary Coalition for Combating Antisemitism (ICCA)
What we are witnessing today - and which has been developing incrementally, sometimes imperceptibly, and even indulgently, for some thirty-five years now - is a new sophisticated, globalizing, virulent and even lethal antisemitism, reminiscent of the atmospherics of the 30s, and without parallel or precedent since the end of the Second World War.
The new anti-Jewishness overlaps with classical antisemitism but is distinguishable from it. It found early juridical, and even institutional, expression in the United Nations' 'Zionism is Racism' resolution - which the late US Senator Daniel Moynihan said "gave the abomination of antisemitism the appearance of international legal sanction" - but has gone dramatically beyond it. This new antisemitism almost needs a new vocabulary to define it; however, it can best be identified using a rights-based juridical perspective.
(Excerpt) Read more at network.nationalpost.com ...
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No matter what the brand, it always gets worse when the world economy takes a nosedive.
“Anti-Semitism is the socialism of fools.”
—August Bebel
I showed my support and respect for Israel today. I bought an Uzi.
Opposed to signs/symbols? That's strange
Years ago, when asked by Barbara Walters him if he was anti-Sematic, Anwar Sadat responded that being anti-Sematic would mean hating himself, since both his people and Israel’s were of Sematic origin.
I too have been trying to put this together. The best I can do is that anti-Semitism is a sign of the times and therefore relates to anti-Sematism.
What about anti-Semiotism? I believe Umberto Eco shed significant light on this issue in his book “Foucault’s Pendulum”.
Mazel tov!
Thank you - that was a very interesting article. It seems that sooner or later, every group of jerks gets around to blaming the Jews.
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