COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE BY MOSHE KANTOR IN THE
INDEPENDENT
"Social media
isn’t doing enough to tackle anti-Semitism. Thankfully, Angela Merkel is
stepping in"
Oh, please, not more anti-Semitism!
The fact is that the genuine article is virtually
non-existent in our society, at least in any public or genuinely influential
way, but that does not stop the charge being freely used by lobbyists regularly
to leverage either anti-free speech measures or to secure changes in political
leadership.
The Independent and other British papers, notably The
Guardian, spent months not very long ago attacking so decent a man as Jeremy Corbyn
with this McCarthyite-like charge.
Their actual goal in doing so? To replace an independent-minded
man with some shabby acolyte of Tony Blair, a man who lied and killed on a
massive scale in the service of those who wanted to create “the birth of a new
Middle East.”
It's just horrible.
Lobbyist, too, use the charge to attack supporters of the perfectly
peaceful and legitimate tactics for securing human and democratic rights called
BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions), a set of tactics which were used to
oppose apartheid in Nationalist South Africa and Jim Crow in the Southern
United States.
There have actually been intense, shameful efforts by
Israel’s government and its apologists to make support of BDS illegal in many
jurisdictions. Such backward-looking bills are signed quite regularly in
various states and cities all over as a result of the pressure.
As for Angela Merkel, she has been a devastatingly bad
leader, a worthy example to no one in anything.
Read this recent analysis of her:
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Response to another
reader who said that any unwelcome criticism can be branded as "malicious".
Like "fake news", what is decided as malicious will be decided by the
establishment agenda:
That sums it up.
The comment below accurately refers to the Stasi, too.
Angela Merkel grew up in East Germany, and it shows in many
things.
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Response to another
reader’s comment:
Well said on the Bible. It is simply full of vile things.
And, as Mark Twain said, upwards of a thousand lies.
Perhaps it should be banned or censored?
As for the notion “Semites,” that is a narrow avenue down
which to travel.
The modern rulers and founders of Israel are Ashkenazi, a
Germanic, European people.
They follow the same religion as the ancient Hebrews, but
they are not the same people.
Adopting the Hebrew language in Israel was an artificial
measure, because Yiddish, closely related to German, is the native language of
most of these people or their immediate ancestors.
Hebrew studies were of course maintained in religious
schools by the Ashkenazi in Europe and America, just as Muslim religious
schools maintain Arabic for religious studies, but Hebrew was no one's actual
day-to-day language since ancient days.
DNA studies clearly show the European origins of the
Ashkenazi, who arose about 1,000 years ago.
The fact of their embracing the religion of Judaism
undoubtedly reflects an unknown historical period when the Hebrew people, some
of them, came to be evangelical.
After all, they had the dramatic example of the amazing
success of Christianity, which itself had started as a small Jewish sect.
There is some DNA evidence of Semitic origins, too, but this
would reflect the intermarriage centuries ago of members from various Jewish
communities in a diaspora of evangelical Jews and Hebrews, the generally small
size of Jewish communities always having represented a problem for marriage and
children.
Of course, the final topper, as it were, is that the
Palestinians are almost certainly the main body of what remains of the ancient
Hebrews.
