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Sunday, 1 January 2012

I'm Giving Up Antisemitism and Anti-Semitism for the New Year

Happy New secular Year everyone! Here is one of my resolutions; I wonder if anyone will join me?

I’m giving up antisemitism and anti-semitism for the New Year. It’s all Jew hatred for me from here on.

And if anyone in my presence says “Judeophobia”, I won’t be responsible for the hospital bill.

Here is a very dry article explaining where the term “antisemitism” came from:

Marr’s conception of antisemitism focused on the supposed racial, as opposed to religious, characteristics of the Jews. His organization, the League of Antisemites, introduced the word “antisemite” into the political lexicon and established the first popular political movement based entirely on anti-Jewish beliefs.

Update: OJ asks in the comments at Israelicool, what is the problem with Judeophobia? Here is my answer:

If you have an irrational fear of a Jew or Jews then you are phobic and yes, Judeophobic. A phobia is introverted and internal. As soon as you act on that irrational fear you are, in my eyes, a “hater”. So, whilst many Jew haters are also Judeophobic, it’s not their Judeophobia that causes me a problem.

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Posted on 01/01/2012 6:52 AM by Brian of London

Comments

1 Jan 2012

Rebecca Bynum

Antisemitism is fine, it's anti-Semitism that is intolerable.

1 Jan 2012

Mary Jackson

Jew hatred is best because otherwise you get some dozy relativist saying "But Arabs are Semites too."

1 Jan 2012
Stan

Brian is partly right. "Antisemitism" was popularized by people who applied it to themselves. However you spell it, it sounds soothingly abstract. It's something people might call themselves with complete sincerity and feel perfectly unashamed. There's a reason why every group that gets to name its enemies uses "phobia." Islamophobia sounds disreputable in a way that "anti-Islamism" would not.

"Antisemitism" is also inaccurate, being a relic of a racist ideology that considered the population of Europe to be divided into "Aryans" and "Semites." (It would be a bit like calling people who hate Russia "anti-Asiatics.") There is no reason to perpetuate a slur that suggests that all Jews have more in common with primitive tribes in the Middle East than the civilization of which they are physically and spiritually a part.

1 Jan 2012

The Law

This excerpt from my NER article dated Friday, 27 August 2010 The "Abrahamic Faiths" Scam applies to the terms "Antisemitism" and "Anti-Semitism" as it does to the term "Abrahamic Faiths" or that other brain numbing concoction, “Islamophobia”:

George Orwell in his essay Politics and the English language explained the dangers:

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

[...]

This invasion of one's mind by ready-made phrases ...... can only be prevented if one is constantly on guard against them, and every such phrase anesthetizes a portion of one's brain.

Those who fall for the ""three Abrahamic faiths" business are obviously sufferering from the killer condition dhimmitude which of course includes having one's brain anethetized, ready for invasion.

http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_display.cfm/blog_id/29319

So Brian Your New resolution sounds good to me and maybe you should change your name to Brain!

That is what we need to stop the invasion of minds and countries by (what Winston Churchill called) “the religion of blood and war.”

The Law

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