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Anti-Semitism - Hate Hits the Mainstream
LA Times ^ | 12/17/01 | ABRAHAM COOPER

Posted on 12/17/2001 6:01:47 AM PST by veronica

Edited on 09/03/2002 4:49:48 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

-SNIP-Ominously, the Abu Dhabi series reflects the mainstreaming of anti-Semitism across the Arab world. Saudi Arabian and Egyptian TV are debating whether to air a 30-part miniseries, "Horseman Without a Horse," which is based on the debunked canard "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion," an early 20th century hoax by the Russian czar's secret police that purported to reveal a Jewish plan to dominate the world. The book, a virtual prescription for genocide, has been invoked by every Jew hater from Adolf Hitler to Louis Farrakhan. THE REST HERE ...

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1 posted on 12/17/2001 6:01:47 AM PST by veronica
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To: veronica
Not exactly anything new in the Arab world -- just a little more active than normal.
2 posted on 12/17/2001 6:08:57 AM PST by Celtjew Libertarian
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To: veronica
Others have also noted the post-September 11 anti-semitism we're witnessing
3 posted on 12/17/2001 6:13:37 AM PST by gg188
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To: veronica
Not directed at you, but at the author of this and other articles like it.

Arabs, by definition, cannot be anti-semitic. Semites are peoples of the Near East and Northern Africa, including Arabs, Arameans, Babylonians, Carthaginians, Ethiopians, Hebrews and Phoenicians.

For an Arab to be anti-Semitic would be the same as a white person being anti-Caucasian.

Sorry, but I really do expect people in the media to at least recognize basic word definitions. Call me a dreamer.

4 posted on 12/17/2001 6:15:21 AM PST by Lumberjack
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To: Celtjew Libertarian
Tell us something we don't know. Anti-Semitism among Arabs is as commonplace there as knock-off designer watches and smelly cigarettes.

Again. Tell us something we don't know.

5 posted on 12/17/2001 6:16:30 AM PST by lavrenti
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To: veronica
I guess the only surprise here is that the PC LATIMES would print this.
6 posted on 12/17/2001 6:16:55 AM PST by anniegetyourgun
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To: Lumberjack
From Webster's Dictionary:

Main Entry: an·ti-Sem·i·tism

Function: noun Date: 1882

: hostility toward or discrimination against Jews as a religious, ethnic, or racial group - an·ti-Se·mit·ic /-s&-'mi-tik/ adjective - an·ti-Sem·ite /-'se-"mIt/ noun

7 posted on 12/17/2001 6:19:09 AM PST by veronica
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To: Lumberjack
The term "anti-Semitic" was created by an Anti-Jewish group, The Anti-Semitic League, founded in Vienna c. 1880.
8 posted on 12/17/2001 6:19:52 AM PST by Celtjew Libertarian
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To: Lumberjack
Arabs, by definition, cannot be anti-semitic.

You are getting too much into semantics... Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.

an·ti-Sem·ite (nt-smt, nt-) n. One who discriminates against or who is hostile toward or prejudiced against Jews. anti-Se·mitic (-s-mtk) adj.

9 posted on 12/17/2001 6:20:47 AM PST by BrooklynGOP
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To: anniegetyourgun
Actually LA Times printed quite a few articles on jihad/anti semitism.
10 posted on 12/17/2001 6:21:40 AM PST by BrooklynGOP
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To: veronica
That definition is incorrect Veronica. I've other dictionaries that state the exact phrase that I've quoted in my original post. Besides, I happen to have studied history, and can tell you that all Semitic people are supposedly the descendents of Shem (which includes both Arabs and Jews), hence the source of the word Semite (Shem/Sem). What you give is the "common" usage of the word, much in the same way people say "Kleenex" when they mean any facial tissue.

Yeah, there I go again, expecting words to have meaning.

12 posted on 12/17/2001 6:23:01 AM PST by Lumberjack
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To: Lumberjack
So I post a definition from a credible dictionary, you claim to have seen others but do not post them. Uh huh.
13 posted on 12/17/2001 6:24:41 AM PST by veronica
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To: BrooklynGOP
You are getting too much into semantics...

Gee, sorry to request that people use words correctly. I'll revert to the standard Clintonese expectation of elastic words. Again, I appologize if my rigid "word prejudice" has offended anybody.

14 posted on 12/17/2001 6:26:04 AM PST by Lumberjack
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To: veronica
BTTT
15 posted on 12/17/2001 6:27:10 AM PST by Fiddlstix
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To: veronica
Thanks for implying that I'm a liar Veronica.

http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/disc.pl?term=semite

You are now free to be as abusive of the language as Clinton, which appears to be your wish. Sorry to have intruded on your "living, breathing" definitions.

16 posted on 12/17/2001 6:28:17 AM PST by Lumberjack
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Ok, smarty pants. I pasted from the dictionary, and that was the only definition given for the term. What's more, I challenge you to find a an instance where someone who is anti-arab is labeled an anti semite..
17 posted on 12/17/2001 6:28:51 AM PST by BrooklynGOP
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To: Lumberjack
Good, now check for anti-semite.
18 posted on 12/17/2001 6:29:50 AM PST by BrooklynGOP
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To: Lumberjack
I did not imply you are a liar. If you have another definition from a credible source please post it. To claim it is 'semantics' to use the PROPER dictionary-based term for something, well, that's Clintonesque.
20 posted on 12/17/2001 6:31:07 AM PST by veronica
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