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 ANTI-SEMITISM . . see: "BIGOTRY" see: "INTOLERANCE" see: "ISLAM" see: "ISRAEL" see: "JEWS" see: "NARROW-MINDEDNESS" see: "PREJUDICE" see: "RACISM" see "EVIL" for other related links ^ How do you spot an anti-Semite? An old joke tells the story of an elderly traveler at the Vienna train station asking passersby whether they hate Jews. After a score of indignant "No's," one fellow finally admits that, why yes, he does hate them. "Thank goodness for an honest man!" exclaims the traveler. "Would you mind looking after my bags while I run to the men's room?" ^ - The Zionists and their protectors are the most detested people in all of humanity, and the hatred is increasing every day. --Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (1956— ) President of Iran [2005— ]. As quoted by Iranian state television on [16 July 2006]. [Israel is] a regime based on evil that cannot continue and one day will vanish. --Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (1956— ) President of Iran [2005— ]. At a student rally in Jakarta, Indonesia [11 May 2006]. We say that this fake regime (Israel) cannot logically continue to live. Open the doors (of Europe) and let the Jews go back to their own countries. --Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (1956— ) President of Iran [2005— ]. News conference [24 April 2006]. The Zionist regime is an injustice and by its very nature a permanent threat. Whether you like it or not, the Zionist regime is heading toward annihilation. The Zionist regime is a rotten, dried tree that will be eliminated by one storm. --Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (1956— ) President of Iran [2005— ]. [14 April 2006] Israel must be wiped off the map. --Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (1956— ) President of Iran [2005— ]. [26 October 2005] - The Jews have done nothing but add to our difficulties by propaganda and deeds since the war began. . . . The morally censorious attitude of the United States in general to other people's affairs has long attracted attention, but when it is coupled with unscrupulous Zionist 'sob-stuff' and misrepresentation, it is very hard to bear. --J.T. Bennett British Colonial Office mandarin. [18 April 1941] in Bernard Wasserstein _Britain and the Jews of Europe 1939-1945_ [1979], p. 50. [A] shitty little country. --Daniel Bernard French ambassador to London (referring to Israel) [2003]. - Balavignus, a Jewish physician, inhabitant of Thonon, was arrested at Chillon, since he had been found in the neighborhood. He was put on the rack for a short time and when taken down confessed after much hesitation that about ten weeks before Rabbi Jacob of Toledo ... sent him by a Jewish boy ... a powder sewn into a thin leather pouch accompanied by a letter, commanding him, on pain of excommunication, and by requiring his obedience to the law, to throw this poison into the larger and more frequented wells of the town of Thonon. --Confession [15 September 1348], in the Castle of Chillon, Savoy, southeast France, by Jews arrested in Neustadt, in M.J. Cohan and John Major {eds.} _History in Quotations_ [2004] p. 286. Cohan & Major explain: The blame for the plague was thus attached to the Jews, and Balavignuswas one of ten who confessed 'his design of destroying and extirpating all Christians'. Later centuries would use the word pogrom for just such violent outbreaks of anti-Semitism. - My cousin sat down to play a piece of Mendelssohn he liked. While I was admiring his musicianship, an officious German rushed over to the musician and rapped loudly on the piano with his knuckles, 'Stop that!' he shouted. 'That is decadent Jewish music!' --Tom Derring [1936], in Martin Gilbert _A History of the Twentieth Century_ [1998], vol. 2, p. 106. In my opinion a disproportionate amount of the time of the Office is wasted on dealing with these wailing Jews. --A. R. Dew British Foreign Office official. [1 September 1944] in Martin Gilbert _Auschwitz and the Allies_ [1981], p. 312. The crimes with which the Jews have been charged in the course of history — crimes which were to justify the atrocties perpetrated against them — have changed in rapid succession. They were supposed to have poisoned wells. They were said to have murdered children for ritual purposes. They were falsely charged with a systematic attempt at the economic domination and exploitation of all mankind. Pseudo-scientific books were written to brand them an inferior, dangerous race. They were reputed to foment wars and revolutions for their own selfish purposes. They were presented at once as dangerous innovators and as enemies of true progress. They were charged with falsifying the culture of nations by penetrating the national life under the guise of becoming assimilated. In the same breath they were accused of being so stubbornly inflexible that it was impossible for them to fit into any society. --Albert Einstein (1879—1955) German-American physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity. "Why Do They Hate The Jews?" _Collier's_ magazine [26 November 1938]. - After May 1940 good times rapidly fled: first the war, then the capitulation, followed by the arrival of the Germans, which is when the sufferings of us Jews really began. Anti-Jewish decrees followed each other in quick succession. Jews must wear a yellow star, Jews must hand in their bicycles, Jews are banned from trams and are forbidden to drive. . . . So we walked in the pouring rain, Daddy, Mummy, and I, each with a school satchel and shopping bag filled to the brim with all kinds of things thrown together anyhow. We got sympathetic looks from people on their way to work. You could see by their faces how sorry they were they couldn't offer us a lift, the gaudy yellow star spoke for itself. --Anne Frank (1929—1945) German-born Jewish diarist. _Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl_ [1952], "Saturday, 20 June, 1942" and "Thursday, 9 July, 1942" Who has inflicted this upon us? Who has made us Jews different from other people? Who has allowed us to suffer so terribly up till now? It is God who has made us what we are, but it will be God, too, who will rise us up again. If we bear all this suffering, and if there are still Jews left, when it is over, then Jews, instead of being doomed, will be held up as an example. --Anne Frank (1929—1945) German-born Jewish diarist. Diary entry [11 April 1944] in __Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl_ [1952]. - The development of modern means of communication will probably within the course of the twentieth century make the Jewish question a world problem which will finally be solved by other nations through the complete segregation and, if required by the needs of self-defense, the eventual annihilation of the Jewish people. --German anti-Semitic program of 1899, in Hans Rogger and Eugen Weber _The European Right: A Historical Profile_ [1965] p. 291. - Isn't the Jew a human being too? Of course he is; none of us ever doubted it. All we doubt is that he is a decent human being. --Joseph Goebbels (1897—1945) German Nazi leader & minister of propaganda. _Der Angriff_ [30 July 1928] The Jews are to blame for this war. The treatment we give them does them no wrong. They have more than deserved it. --Joseph Goebbels (1897—1945) German Nazi leader & minister of propaganda. "The Jews are Guilty" _Das Reich_ [16 November 1941] I think it is imperative to give the Jews certain public parks, not the best ones, and tell them: 'You may sit on these benches.' These benches shall be marked 'For Jews only'. Besides that they have no business in German parks. --Joseph Goebbels (1897—1945) German Nazi leader & minister of propaganda. - Martin Luther King Jr. called Zionism the national liberation movement of the Jewish people. In 1975, the General Assembly of the United Nations called it an international crime. The American ambassador to the U.N. at the time, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, summed up that resolution in one word: Obscene. His impassioned protest before the U.N. remains one of the great appeals for justice in the history of that temple of hypocrisy. ("The United States rises to declare before the General Assembly of the United Nations, and before the world, that it does not acknowledge, it will not abide by, it will never acquiesce in this infamous act.") --Paul Greenberg - Regarding the building of a security wall between Israel and Palestine: . . . If this caring world is worried about the injustice of a fence or Islamaphobia, then start slurring nuclear India for its $1 billion fence, which shuts off the entire (impoverished Muslim) country of Bangladesh - a far harsher blow to far more millions than Israel's so-called "Wall" aimed at stopping suicide killing. If we hate the principle of "occupied lands," then let Europe cease trade with China and hector that dictatorial government about the cultural obliteration of occupied Tibet. If we are truly worried about violence, then let the U.N. and the EU turn their attention to Nigeria, where thousands are murdered yearly. If the death of tens of thousands of Muslims and the desecration of mosques bother the Arab League, then let them blast the Arabs of the Sudan, who are systematically and in the most racist fashion butchering black Muslims. But if after all that we have still not gotten our bearings, then let us rail about Sharon and the "occupation," and thus enable the Arab world to forget its self-induced misery and find psychic reassurance, as Europe too often has, by blaming Jews." . . . --Victor Davis Hanson (1953— ) American military historian and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. "The New Defeatism" [4 June 2004] & see: Just one month after the U.N. and EU launched a furious campaign against Israel's security fence, culminating in the International Court of Justice ruling that the fence is illegal, the EU announced it's planning to build a separation fence of its own, and invited Israel to participate in the construction. The fence is being built to separate recently added EU members Poland and Hungary from their new neighbors — Russia, Belarus and Ukraine. The EU said the fence is necessary to "prevent the free movement of migrants seeking to enter" EU territory. [...] "It's incredible the EU has no problem building a fence just to keep illegal immigrants out, but when the Jewish State builds a security fence as a last resort for the purpose of keeping terrorists out and saving Israeli lives, we are blasted by them and the U.N.," a spokesman for Ariel Sharon told WorldNetDaily. "Makes you think, doesn't it?" --Aaron Klein, "EU to build wall after blasting Israel's" - When I think about it, I realize that I am extraordinarily humane. At the time of the rule of the Popes, the Jews were mistreated in Rome. Until 1830, eight Jews mounted on donkeys were led once a year through the streets of Rome. For my part, I restrict myself to telling them that they must go away. If they break their pipes on the journey, I can't do anything about it. But if they refuse to go voluntarily, I see no other solution but extermination. --Adolf Hitler (1889—1945) German dictator. [23 January 1942], _Hitler's Table Talk 1941-1944_. Anti-Semitism on purely emotional grounds will find its ultimate expression in the form of pogroms. The anti-Semitism of reason, however, must lead to the planned judicial opposition to and elimination of the privileges of the Jews. . . Yet its ultimate goal must absolutely be the removal of the Jews altogether. --Adolf Hitler (1889—1945) German dictator. [16 September 1919], in Joachim Fest _Hitler_ [1974], p. 115. - "Religious Radicals" by Eugene Kontorovich in _The Wall Street Journal_ July 22, 2005 "It is the Occupation in its many facets that foments the violence and fuels the conflict [in Israel]," said a report endorsed by leaders of the Anglican Church in at their meeting in Britain last month. They adopted a resolution there supporting divestment from companies doing business with Israel. The Anglicans are only the most recent on a list of mainline Protestant churches to endorse a boycott of companies with ties to the Jewish state. The United Church of Christ (UCC) took similar action last month, and the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) passed a resolution last year. [ . . . ] Moreover, the denominations condemn Israel without informing their congregants of the broader historical context. The resolutions blame terrorism on Israeli "occupation." But Palestinian terror against Israeli civilians began well before Israel took Gaza from Egypt and the West Bank from Jordan in the 1967 Six Day War. At Camp David in 2000, Israel offered to withdraw from almost all these areas and allow the creation of a Palestinian state. The Palestinian leadership rejected the offer and began a homicidal spree that has cost the lives of more than 1,000 Israelis. The denominations denounce as "violence" efforts aimed at stopping Palestinian suicide bombers. Yet they also condemn the entirely nonviolent security fence, which has kept countless terrorists from entering Israel's cities. The churches' leaders claim to be even-handed when dealing with Israelis and Palestinians, but they are not. The terrorists use home-made bombs. Israel must use more complex devices to protect itself — including construction equipment to destroy terrorists' tunnels and hide-outs — purchased from abroad. A policy of "even-handed" divestment rewards the Palestinians' ruthless asymmetric warfare tactics. Most American Christians back Israel and its right to defend itself. (The evangelical wing of Protestantism is especially vocal in its support.) A recent nationwide survey sponsored by the Anti- Defamation League revealed that nearly four times as many Americans sympathize with Israel than with the Palestinians, and an overwhelming majority of Americans (71%) believe that Israel is currently taking a "bold step for peace." The same cannot be said, though, for the leaders of these churches. Mr. Kontorovich is an assistant professor at the George Mason University School of Law. - The cry of 'down with autocracy!' comes from the blood-suckers who are commonly known as Jews, Armenians and Poles. Beware of the Jews! They are the root of all evil, the sole cause of our misfortunes. --League of the Russian People (Black Hundreds) in M.J. Cohan and John Major {eds.} _History in Quotations_ [2004] p. 628. Cohan & Major add: The Jews were seen as responsible both for the Revolution and for Russia's defeat by Japan in the war of 1904-5. They come to France to make money, but the moment a fight is on, they hide behind the first tree. There are so many in the army because the Jew likes to parade around in fancy uniforms. Every country chases them out, there is a reason for that, and we must never allow them to occupy such a position in France. --Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841—1919) French painter. [15 January 1898]; quoted by fellow artist Edouard Manet in _Journal_ p. 148. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? Fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? --William Shakespeare (1564—1616) English dramatist. _The Merchant of Venice_ [1596—1598] We in the West simply do not want to believe that this kind of hatred still exists; and when it emerges, we feel uncomfortable. We do everything we can to change the subject. Why the denial, I ask myself? What is it about this sickness that we do not understand by now? And what possible excuse do we have not to expose and confront it with all the might we have? --Andrew Sullivan (1963— ) Anglo-American journalist. (Of anti-semitism.) Every son of a Jewish mother, every human being with Jewish blood in its veins, is born without honor and must therefore lack in every decent human feeling. Such a person cannot differentiate between what is pure and what is dirty. Ethically he is the lowest of the low. It follows from this that contact with a Jew dishonors; hence any contact with a Jew must be avoided. --Waidhofer Resolution of the Austrian student fraternities, [1882] in Arthur Schnitzler _My Youth in Vienna_. - Israel is No 1 threat to peace, says EU poll By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in Brussels November 4, 2003 Europeans view Israel as the No 1 threat to world peace, ahead of Iran and North Korea, according to a European Commission survey yesterday. The results prompted a furious reaction from the Israeli government, which has already accused the European Union of turning a blind eye to rising anti-Semitism. The Eurobarometer poll of 7,500 EU residents found that 59 per cent deemed Israel "a threat to peace in the world", with the figures rising to 60 per cent in Britain, 65 in Germany, 69 in Austria and 74 in Holland. Franco Frattini, Italy's foreign minister, apologised for the results on behalf of the EU, saying they sent "a false signal" and would not shape Middle East policy. The Simon Wiesenthal Centre said the poll was proof that Europe has swallowed the media's vilification of Israel "hook, line and sinker". The EU has long been accused by hardliners in America and Israel of tilting to the Arab side. The list of 15 countries that might be a threat to peace was put together by a low-level EU unit in concert with Belgian members of EOS Gallup Europe. It was not cleared by foreign policy experts working for Chris Patten, the external relations commissioner. "We had nothing to do with it," said his spokesman. In a twist that left analysts scratching their heads, the poll suggested that the British have turned against Washington even more sharply than the French or Germans. Asked if America posed a threat to peace, the "yes" response was 55 per cent in Britain, 52 in France and 45 in Germany. In Greece, the figure reached 88 per cent, with 96 per cent calling the Iraq war "unjustified". But the EU itself is deemed a threat to peace by 18 per cent in Britain compared with eight per cent for the whole union. Only Denmark continues to back the Iraq war. In Britain, a comfortable majority still thinks that the Government should keep troops in Iraq now that the country is committed. While the Dutch were the most worried about Israel, they were also alarmed by America, North Korea, Pakistan and China. "This is the strangest poll I've ever seen. The Dutch have always been very pro-Israel and so I ask myself how can this possibly be?" said Ben Van Der Velde, European editor for the Rotterdam-based newspaper Handelsblad. The poll was part of a regular series by the commission's press service and was intended to investigate views on the Iraq crisis. Gallup questioned 500 people in each EU state - the same for 82 million Germans and 350,000 in Luxembourg - although the final results were "weighted". The Israeli embassy in Brussels blamed the anti-Israel mood on reckless reporting by the European media, saying: "We are not only sad but outraged. Not at European citizens but at those who are responsible for forming public opinion." The World Jewish Congress said Europe's elites had been playing with fire by routinely treating Israel as the Middle East villain. In a recent case, Gretta Duisenberg, the wife of the departing president of the European Central Bank, called the Israeli occupation of Gaza and the West Bank worse than Nazi rule in Holland. Almost all of Holland's 100,000 Jews were exterminated by the Germans. - How bad is anti-Semitism in France? A French Nazi hunter says it's so bad, the best way to keep up the fight is to leave the country. Six decades after the end of the Holocaust, the prominent French Nazi-hunter Serge Klarsfeld told the Jerusalem Post that French Jews should pack their bags and get out. "One of the lessons of the Holocaust is that even if you want to fight against a wave of anti-Semitism, the best [thing] is to leave if you can," Klarsfeld said during a visit to Israel. --"Time for Jews to leave France?" "WorldNetDaily" [20 June 2004] - Report entitled "Resettlement of Jews" written by SS-SturmbannfŸhrer Gricksch for SS-Col. von Herff and ReichsfŸhrer-SS Himmler, after inspection of Auschwitz camp on 14-16 May 1943. In _Hitler and the Final Solution_ - G. Fleming, University of California Press, [1984], p. 142-143: The Auschwitz camp plays a special role in the resolution of the Jewish question. The most advanced methods permit the execution of the FŸhrer-order in the shortest possible time and without arousing much attention. The so-called "resettlement action" runs the following course: The Jews arrive in special trains (freight cars) toward evening and are driven on special tracks to areas of the camp specifically set aside for this purpose. There the Jews are unloaded and examined for their fitness to work by a team of doctors, in the presence of the camp commandant and several SS officers. At this point anyone who can somehow be incorporated into the work program is put in a special camp. The curably ill are sent straight to a medical camp and are restored to health through a special diet. The basic principle behind everything is: conserve all manpower for work. The previous type of "resettlement action" has been thoroughly rejected, since it is too costly to destroy precious work energy on a continual basis. The unfit go to cellars in a large house which are entered from outside. They go down five or six steps into a fairly long, well-constructed and well-ventilated cellar area, which is lined with benches to the left and right. It is brightly lit, and the benches are numbered. The prisoners are told that they are to be cleansed and disinfected for their new assignments. They must therefore completely undress to be bathed. To avoid panic and to prevent disturbances of any kind, they are instructed to arrange their clothing neatly under their respective numbers, so that they will be able to find their things again after their bath. Everything proceeds in a perfectly orderly fashion. Then they pass through a small corridor and enter a large cellar room which resembles a shower bath. In this room are three large pillars, into which certain materials can be lowered from outside the cellar room. When three- to four-hundred people have been herded into this room, the doors are shut, and containers filled with the substances are dropped down into the pillars. As soon as the containers touch the base of the pillars, they release particular substances that put the people to sleep in one minute. A few minutes later, the door opens on the other side, where the elevator is located. The hair of the corpses is cut off, and their teeth are extracted (gold-filled teeth) by specialists (Jews). It has been discovered that Jews were hiding pieces of Jewelry, gold, platinum etc., in hollow teeth. Then the corpses are loaded into elevators and brought up to the first floor, where ten large crematoria are located. (Because fresh corpses burn particularly well, only 50-100 lbs. of coke are needed for the whole process.) The job itself is performed by Jewish prisoners, who never step outside this camp again. The results of this "resettlement action" to date: 500,000 Jews. Current capacity of the "resettlement action" ovens: 10,000 in 24 hours. - Testimony of SS private Boeck. Extracted from "Der Auschwitz Prozess", by Hermann Langbein, Vol. I, quoted in _Auschwitz: Technique and Operation of the Gas Chambers_ - J.C Pressac, the Beate Klarsfeld Foundation, NY, 1989, p. 181: Q: Were you present at a gassing operation one day? A: Yes, it was one evening. I accompanied the driver Hoeblinger. A transport had arrived from Holland and the prisoners had to jump from the wagons. They were well-off Jews. There were women with Persian furs. They arrived by express train. The trucks were already there, with wooden steps before them, and the people climbed aboard. Then they all started off. In the place Birkenau once stood, there was only a long farmhouse (Bunker 2) and beside it four or five big huts. Inside, the people were standing on clothes which were building up on the floor. The block leader and the sergeant, carrying a cane, were there. Hoeblinger said to me 'lets go over there now'. There was a sign 'to disinfection'. He said 'you see, they are bringing children now'. They opened the door, threw the children in and closed the door. There was a terrible cry. A member of the SS climbed on the roof. The people went on crying for about ten minutes. Then the prisoners opened the doors. Everything was in disorder and contorted. Heat was given off. The bodies were loaded on a rough wagon and taken to a ditch. The next batch were already undressing in the huts. After that I didn't look at my wife for four weeks. ----- Semitic (adj.) [sê-'mi-tik] Pertaining to the Semites: the Hebrew, Aramaic, Arabic, Ethiopic, and Assyrian peoples. Also pertaining to an Afro-Asiatic family of languages that includes Hebrew, Aramaic and modern Syriac, Amharic, Tigré, and others, all clearly sharing a common stock and origin. Usage: A Semitic person is a "Semite" and a "Semiticism" is a Semitic word or turn of phrase, as "algebra" (from Arabic) and "shibboleth" (from Hebrew) are Semiticisms in the English language. Hebrew and Arabic are sister languages (Hebrew shalom = Arabic salaam "peace"). Since World War II, however, when the people of Jewish descent were so severely persecuted, the term has been more closely associated with them than with their Arabic sisters and brothers. Now, "anti-Semitic" in the minds of most English- speakers refers to prejudice against Jews rather than against all Semitic peoples. end page | ABORTION - ARABS | ANTI-AMERICANISM | ANTI-SEMITISM | BALI - BUSH | CAPITAL PUNISHMENT - CLINTON (HILLARY) | ELECTION [AMERICAN PRESIDENTIAL - 2004] & FOX NEWS | GLOBAL WARMING & GUANTANAMO | GUN CONTROL & GUNS | HEALTH CARE (CANADIAN) - HOMOSEXUALS | HURRICANE KATRINA | IRAN | IRAQ 1 | IRAQ 2 | ISLAM - ISRAEL v. PALESTINE | LEFTISTS | MEDIA (THE) & MEDIA BIAS | MOORE (MICHAEL) & NEW YORK TIMES | NORTH KOREA - PATRIOT ACT | RADICAL THOUGHT | RAP MUSIC | STEM CELL RESEARCH | TERRORISM 1 | TERRORISM 2 | TERRORISM 3 | TERRORISM 4 | TERRORISM (PREVENTING) | UNITED NATIONS | | Return Home | The Credits | The Cast | Act 1 | Act 2 | Act 3 | The End | The Reviews | Photos | |
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