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Israel/Palestine

shira

(30,109 posts)

28. Rabbi Sacks on Antizionism = Antisemitism...

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Sat Oct 15, 2016, 10:49 AM

Oct 2016

"....would you stay in a country where you need armed police to guard you while you prayed? Where your children need armed guards to protect them at school? Where, if you wear a sign of your faith in public, you risk being abused or attacked? Where, when your children go to university, they are insulted and intimidated because of what is happening in some other part of the world? Where, when they present their own view of the situation they are howled down and silenced?

This is happening to Jews throughout Europe. In every single country of Europe, without exception, Jews are fearful for their or their children’s future. If this continues, Jews will continue to leave Europe, until, barring the frail and the elderly, Europe will finally have become Judenrein".

This is why Israel is needed as a Jewish state.

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Why Anti-Zionists Who Say They Aren’t Anti-Semitic Usually Are [View all] shira Oct 2016 OP

As an athiest... kristopher Oct 2016 #1

It's more than that. aranthus Oct 2016 #2

Good point. Giving up a nation's sovereignty peacefully is absurd & unheard of. shira Oct 2016 #17

I'm opposed to Zionism because I'm against all forms of nationalism that promote ethnic superiority Little Tich Oct 2016 #3

What's racist is actively opposing Jewish nationalism & no other. n/t shira Oct 2016 #5

What's racist is that your dissolving of the Jewish state leads to dead Jews. shira Oct 2016 #16

London's Ultra Orthodox Jews run daily gauntlet of anti-Semitic abuse shira Oct 2016 #25

I don't like the thought of Jewish people having to keep a packed suitcase under their beds, just in Little Tich Oct 2016 #26

You don't like the thought but that's the situation you prefer for Israeli Jews. shira Oct 2016 #27

Maybe I shouldn't do this, but... Little Tich Oct 2016 #4

What do u disagree with? You know what antisemitism is while no one else does? n/t shira Oct 2016 #6

The "new" definition of anti-Semitism that includes criticism of Israel as a form of anti-Semitism Little Tich Oct 2016 #7

You're a self-appointed expert on racism. Everyone else is dumb... shira Oct 2016 #8

I don't think that my views on what constitutes racism differs from the average person Little Tich Oct 2016 #9

I used your definition to prove writings from Mondoweiss & Gideon Levy.... shira Oct 2016 #10

You have only proved to yourself that those writings were racist. Little Tich Oct 2016 #11

I used your criteria & proved it, but let's compare. Here's Gideon Levy... shira Oct 2016 #12

I challenge you to find someone at JPost more racist & vile than Gideon Levy. shira Oct 2016 #13

In addition to Caroline Glick at the Jerusalem Post, I'll provide an example from the Israeli Minist Little Tich Oct 2016 #14

Not to defend Glick, but how is this at all racist? aranthus Oct 2016 #20

For defining racism, I'll just go with "feelings of antipathy towards an ethnic group"... Little Tich Oct 2016 #21

For defining racism I go with a dictionary. aranthus Oct 2016 #22

Your definition that racism only includes racial groups is too narrow in scope and completely Little Tich Oct 2016 #23

It's the dictionary's definition, not mine. aranthus Oct 2016 #24

Before I respond to your examples, do we agree Gideon Levy is racist? shira Oct 2016 #15

Oops, seems like I forgot about Gideon Levy. Little Tich Oct 2016 #18

How is Glick worse than Levy? Explain by comparison please. n/t shira Oct 2016 #19

Rabbi Sacks on Antizionism = Antisemitism... shira Oct 2016 #28