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Anti-Semitism – What is it?
Anti-Semitism – What is it?
Several of us among the incurably curious asked ourselves a simple question: what is anti-Semitism? That it must be written with a capital “S” says a lot.
Then we realized it also morphs. To that feature I can attest. In November 2002, I met a “John Doe” in London who proposed a research challenge. While meeting that challenge, I encountered various versions of anti-Semitism.
A colleague advised against this challenge. First he fretted at the criminal nature of what the research has since confirmed. Then he inquired about my safety. That said a lot.
The colleague was M.I.T. Professor Noam Chomsky. For his criticism of Israeli policy, he was attacked as a self-hating Jew. Were he not Jewish, doubtless he would have been an anti-Semite. For critics of Israel, those are the only two options. He cautioned me:
“You’ll get the same thing: anti-Semitic, Holocaust denier, want to kill all the Jews, etc. It doesn’t matter what the facts are. Bear in mind that you are dealing with intellectuals, that is, what we call ‘commissars’ and ‘apparatchiks’ in enemy states.”
Is anti-Semitism a geopolitical strategy? If so, for what purpose? Character assassination?
Ten months ago, I met with Professor William Robinson on the University of California Santa Barbara campus. We met soon after he was attacked by the Anti-Defamation League and its network.
Robinson had read Guilt By Association, the first release based on this research. His question mirrored Prof. Chomsky’s concern: “Are they going to kill me?” he asked. Who are They? Those who attack anyone critical of Israeli policy.
Anti-Semitism—A License to Kill?
For his class on globalization, Robinson provided an email link to a photo essay critical of Israeli policy. The essay had been circulating online for weeks. When two students complained to the ADL, its attack troops insisted on Robinson’s removal while its national network urged alumni to threaten the withholding of gifts and bequests to the university.
Word quickly spread among academics nationwide. That time-critical ADL strategy silenced on-campus criticism of the Israeli assault on Gaza. Is it anti-Semitic to suggest that’s how anti-Semitism works?
When the Anti-Defamation League intimidates on a national scale, does anti-Semitism morph into something even more sinister? The Gaza assault killed 1,400, including 400 Palestinian children. That slaughter was scheduled during America’s political and media “down time”—between Christmas 2008 and the January 2009 inaugural of Barack Obama.
Is it anti-Semitic to suggest a strategic motive behind the timing of Israel’s latest savagery?
Then there’s the motive for 911. Is it anti-Semitic to raise that taboo subject? Ask those members of the 911 Commission who objected—successfully—when the chair and vice-chair proposed hearings on the motivation for that high-profile provocation.
Instead, Americans were left to cope with the results of an overwrought reaction to an unexplained mass murder too quickly blamed on “Islamo” fascism. Only now can we see the full costs in blood and treasure of a war waged on fixed intelligence and false pretenses.
The fiscal tab alone is projected to total $3 Trillion. That includes the future costs of military pensions, disabilities, record-level post-traumatic stress, suicides and so forth.
All that money is borrowed, a first for an American war. The interest cost could reach $700 billion. Is it anti-Semitic to mention here that debt is always the prize?
At the end of WWII, the victorious U.S. was home to 50% of the world’s productive power. Our bonds were gilt-edged and remained so for two generations. Now we are widely hated, our credibility is shot, our credit rating is slipping and our economy teeters on a meltdown.
Is it anti-Semitic to ask, “What happened?”
Is it anti-Semitic to report that the so-called “mastermind” behind 911 cited as his motive the U.S.-Israeli relationship?
Would it be anti-Semitic to ask for an accounting of the “but for” costs of this relationship?
But for this “special relationship” what would be the current condition of the U.S.—financially, militarily, diplomatically, geopolitically? Would the computation of those costs be an exercise in anti-Semitism? How about future costs?
Is it Anti-Semitic to call for a New 911 Commission?
America was misled to wage war in Iraq. Who had a relationship with us privileged enough to succeed with such duplicity in plain sight?
Who had the means, motive, opportunity and—importantly—the stable nation state intelligence to deceive us from inside our own government? Is that question anti-Semitic?
We were betrayed. Does that betrayal trace to those who befriended us?
We were defrauded. Does that treason trace to those we were induced to trust?
As counsel to the U.S. Senate Finance Committee (1980-87), I crafted federal tax law governing funds under management. Those funds surged from $800 billion in 1980 to more than $17,000 billion by the spring of 2007.
Those tax policies created a vast pool of “money-on-autopilot.” Today’s consensus belief can be simply put: money should be allowed to pursue more of itself—freely.
The unspoken assumption is that money is smarter than people. That’s the generally accepted truth behind the finance-fixated obsession we now know as “economics.”
Legions of consensus-touting consultants insist that this One True Faith guide lawmaking worldwide. By law, financial freedom became a proxy for personal freedom. Tribunals under the World Trade Organization may yet enforce that worldview globally.
How did such a narrow perspective become a widely agreed-to mindset? How were we induced to set America’s course by those values peculiar to money?
Rather than the civil rights refrain, “Let my people go,” the consensus refrain is “Let my money go.” Were we induced by a subculture within a subculture…within a subculture to freely embrace the very money myopic mindset that now endangers our freedom?
This mindset first surfaced as the “Chicago model” before morphing over decades into the “Washington” consensus.
How were we as a nation induced to brand democracy with a point of view that, by law, displaces those values not denominated in money? Is that an anti-Semitic question?
Shutting Down Debate
Early on in this challenge, I included the noun “Jew” in a Google search. I received in return an automated response from the Anti-Defamation League implying I was an anti-Semite.
Why?
More importantly, how did a Google response appear in my email inbox—automatically—from the Anti-Defamation League?
The ADL network conducts trainings for law enforcement under recently enacted federal hate crimes legislation. By my use of a common noun in an online search, am I now identified in a database as wanting to kill all the Jews?
Mark Yudoff, president of the University of California, could have intervened in the on-campus events that caused Professor Robinson to fear for his life. He declined. Richard Blum, chair of the state’s Board of Regents, could have intervened. He too declined.
Judith Yudoff is the immediate past international president of the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism representing 760 synagogues. Blum’s wife, U. S. Senator Diane Feinstein, chairs the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. Is it anti-Semitic to report these facts?
My apologies. Clearly I don’t yet grasp what anti-Semitism is. Thus I throw the challenge to you the reader: what is it? Together perhaps we can sort this out.
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You made some very good points.
Is it anti-Semitic to mention that Jewish Zionists control the media in the United States? Have they taken control to hide the ugly truth about the continual, evil crimes against the Palestinians perpetrated by the Israeli government? To hide the ample evidence that indicates that Israel’s Mossad masterminded the 911 attacks. To hide the fact that Jewish Zionists brought us the Iraq war on behalf of Israel? To hide the overwhelming evidence that the Israeli Lobby controls our congress and Whitehouse?
Here is the ample proof that Jewish Zionists control our media:
Television Networks:
CBS:
Sumner Redstone – chairman of board and CEO of CBS and Viacom, “world’s biggest media giant” (Economist, 11-23-02). Viacom owns Viacom Cable, CBS, and MTV all over the world, Blockbuster Video Rentals, and Black Entertainment TV
Mel Karmazin – CBS corporation president and CEO
Leslie Moonves (great-nephew of Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion) – president of CBS Television
David Poltrack – executive vice-president, Research and Planning
Jeff Fager – executive director of “60 Minutes II.”
NBC:
Jeff Zucker – president of NBC Entertainment
Neil Shapiro – president of NBC News
Jeff Gaspin – executive vice-president, programming NBC
Max Mutchnik and David Kohan – co-exec. producers of NBC’s “Good Morning, Miami”
Lloyd Braun – chair of NBC Entertainment.
ABC:
Michael Eisner – major owner of Walt Disney, Capital Cities, and ABC
David Westin – president of ABC News.
FOX:
Rupert Murdoch (Jewish mother, hence legally Jewish) – owner of FOX TV, New York Post, London Times, and News of the World
Sandy Grushow – chair, FOX Entertainment
Peter Chernin – second in command at Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., owner of FOX TV
Gail Berman – president of FOX Entertainment.
CNN:
Wolf Blitzer – host of CNN’s Late Edition.
Hollywood Movie Studios:
Ted Pike’s comment: The prestigious Encyclopedia Judaica, in its article “Motion Pictures,” pg. 449, says: “Thus all the large Hollywood companies, with the exception of United Artists…were founded and controlled by Jews.”
Sony Corporation of America: Howard Stringer – chief
-Columbia Pictures: Amy Pascal – chair
Warner Bros.: Barry Meyer – chair; Jordan Levin – pres. of Warner Bros. Entertainment.
Miramax Films: Harvey Weinstein – CEO
Paramount: Sherry Lansing – president of Paramount Communications and chair of Paramount Pictures’ Motion Picture Group.
DreamWorks: Stephen Spielberg, David Geffen, Jeffrey Katzenberg (owners)
MTV Entertainment: Brian Graden – president
Turner Entertainment: Brad Siegal – president
Radio:
Clear Channel Communications: Robert Sillerman – founder
PBS: Ben Wattenberg – moderator, PBS ThinkTank
Publishers:
Ted Pike comments: The Encyclopedia Judaica, in its article “Publishing,” lists the following publishing houses, as of 1971, owned or controlled by Jews: Viking, Knopf, Random House, Modern Library, Simon and Schuster, Harcourt, Brace & Co., Greenberg Publishers, Ziff-Davis, Crown Publishers, Dial Press and Dryden Press. Publishing houses either founded by or with a Jew as editor-in-chief include: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, Abelard-Schumann, Basic Books, Grosset & Dunlap, Federal Writers Project, Gaer Associates, Macmillan & Co., Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Citadel Press, Chanticleer Press, Arthur Frommer, Inc., Hart Publishing Co., Lantern Press, Oceanea Publications, Twayne Publishers, Arco Publishing Co., Grossman Publishers, and Stein & Day.
Publishing houses involved in book clubs, reprints, or children’s literature either founded by or controlled by Jews include the Literary Guild, Book of the Month Club, Limited Editions Club, Heritage Club, Junior Heritage Club, Readers Club, Jewish Book Guild, Military Science Book Club, Natural History Book Club, Book Collector’s Society, Art Book Guild, Science Book Club, Beech Hurst Press, A. S. Barnes & Co., Sagamore Press, Thomas Yoseloff Inc., The Modern Library, World Publishing Co., Little Blue Books, Pocket Books Inc., Avon Publications, Popular Library, Schocken Books, Golden Books, and Golden Press.
In its article on New York City, the Judaica adds to the list of publishing houses owned by Jews, Liveright & Boni, and Anchor Books.
Today Random House, Doubleday, and Anchor Books, while Jewish owned and controlled, participate in the world’s largest publishing consortium, Bertelsmann A.G., benefiting from its staggering distribution advantages. End of Ted Pike’s comments.
Bertelsmann’s American operations are headed by Joel Klein, chair and CEO.
David Manaker is executive director for HarperCollins.
Newspapers:
Samuel Newhouse Jr. and Donald Newhouse own Newhouse Publications, which includes 26 newspapers in 22 cities. The Conde Nast Magazine Group includes the New Yorker, Parade, the Sunday newspaper supplements, American City Business Journal, business newspapers published in more than 30 major cities in America, and interests in cable television programming and cable systems serving one million homes.
Wall Street Journal: Peter R. Kahn, CEO
New York Times, Boston Globe, and other publications: published by Arthur O. Sulzberger Jr.
New York Daily News: Mortimer Zuckerman, owner
Village Voice, New Times and network of alternative weeklies: Owned by David Schneiderman
Washington Post: Donald Graham, chair and CEO, son of Katharine Graham Meyer, former owner of Washington Post
San Francisco Chronicle: Ron Rosenthal, managing editor; Phil Bronstein, exec. editor
AOL-Time Warner Book Group: Laurence Kirshbaum, editor
Magazines:
US News & World Report: Mortimer Zuckerman, owner and chair of the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish-American Organizations, one of the largest pro-Israel lobbying groups
New Republic: Marty Peretz, owner and publisher (NR openly identifies itself as pro-Israel.)
Barron’s: Peter R. Kahn, CEO
National Review: Michael Ledeen, editor
Business Week: Bruce Nussbaum, editorial page editor
Newsweek: Donald Graham, chair and CEO, and Howard Fineman, chief political columnist
Weekly Standard: William Kristol, editor, also executive director, Project for a New American Century, (PNAC)
The New Yorker: David Reznik, editor; Nicholas Lehman, writer; Henrick Hertzberg, “Talk of the Town” editor
http://www.truthtellers.org/alerts/jewsconfirmbigmedia.html
Here is how we can save ourselves from all atrocities. We need to send 90 to 99% of Zionists and Jews who support them to a far and far away island so that they can perpetrate their crime on one another and the society at large will be free of them and the world at last can have peace.
I am very aware of who they are and one who has been targeted by these criminals since 2006 September when I first started exposing their corruption and fraud and crime. These criminals watch every move I make, they tamper with my mail, intrude into my internet activities blocking my emails and various entries I make in Russia Today website and intercept my phone. Why are they spying on me? Why are they concerned about what I know about them? Why do they want to remain secretive? Why are so many criminals born into this race?
[...] via Anti-Semitism – What is it? : Veterans Today. [...]
Antisemitism is an unconscious feeling of envy and hatred of the Jewish people for their superior intellectual accomplishments and abilities at capitalism, and it the desire to deny them Jews right of nationhood and self-determination, and the right to live peacefully on part of their homeland (anti-Zionism). Anti-Zionism is a more insidious, more nasty form of bigotry than old-fashioned, Nazi-style outright antisemitism.
All other people are afforded the right to live in part of their native land – but antisemites passionately try to make Jews are an exception – and come up with libels, canards and conspiracies to trying delegitimize them and strip them of the same respect and dignity all other people are afforded.
Look no further for an explanation. This article and its author are textbook examples of antisemitism and an antisemite.
Brettsky – “anti-Semitism” is the slur and attack reserved for any Goy who opposes, or even notices, any sort of grotesque behavior, criminality, or outrage a Jew perpetrates. And as far as “superior intellectual accomplishments”? HA! Israel has a very low National IQ. Jews succeed by their historic tradtions of treachery, deceit, and fraud- and my their absolute monomania for racial exclusivity, and relentless nepotism.
Most Jews aren’t even Semites. They are Ashkanazi. Turcics. Considering the way in which Jews treat actual Semites – Arabs – Jews are the MOST completely Anti-Semitic creatures on Earth.
People are not “envious” of Jews. Get over yourself, Princess. People are righteously outraged over the absolutely evil, malicious things that Jews DO.
Jews have NEVER been “persecuted” They’ve been CAUGHT. And the American Goysihe are slowly waking up…….
Brettsky’s posts are classic examples of Gentile-Hating Judaic self-re-inforcement, and the ways in which Jews have used their SELF-CREATED “victimization” as an excuse and justification to behave in the most depraved ways against Gentiles.
Disgusting, really. I believe that Jews are congentically incapable of comprehending thier own malice and evil.
I think the current definition of anti-semitism is anyone who is not Jewish.