If your a Jew can you be "Anti-Semitic" ....? Or is it called something else..? =S?

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Thank you for answering =D

Oh ok ,it's because I'm part Jew & some times they call me Anti-Semitic..but I'm not!, I'm just not pro Jew that's all! lol =D

Answer 1

"Anti-Semite" as we know the word today is actually a false use of the word. a Semite is actually a person from a nation that speaks a Semetic language. Semetic languages include: Amharic, Arabic, Aramaic, Assyrian Neo-Aramaic, Akkadian, Ge'ez, Hebrew, Maltese, Syriac and Tigrinya. The modern use came into into use in the late 1800's. In fact most Jews today are not really Semites, they are Ashkenaz. That said, a person who is Jewish can be anti-Semetic if they have Arabs, Hebrews, Maltese, etc.

Answer 2

Compulsive/obsessive disorder also vice/versa affects all categories. A bigot is hatred and if hatred is only available within a persons community they take it. A great many people hate what they are and punish it for existing. That does not make a person good rather it serves as a justification for a persons actions which is what got them into trouble in the first place. Hatred is a small but vicious circle. It is a pattern throughout society. A Jew can be anti-sematic but no one else can.

Answer 3

Yes, around 95% of all people who call themselves Jewish are in fact not true Semites, Israelites, whatever you want to call them. Those that are true Jews, not converted ones, are treated like second-class citizens in Israel. Just so you all know, there is a difference between ethnicity and religion. Just because the Muslims you see on television are Arabic does not mean that all Muslims are Arabs, nor does it mean that all Arabs are Muslims.

Answer 4

Anti-semitic just means anti-jew, so your religion doesn't matter at all, anyone can be ant-semitic.

Answer 5

it'll be called "self hating Jew" not Anti-Semite.

Answer 6

A self-hating jew, maybe?

Answer 7

You could act anti-semetic if you are Jewish...just look at the guy who plays Borat.

Answer 8

"self hating jew"

Answer 9

YES...

Self-hating Jew (or self-loathing Jew) is an epithet used about (and mainly by) Jews, which suggests a hatred of one's Jewish identity and/or ancestry. Several Jewish writers and activists critical of Israel or Zionism have reported the phrase being used against them, based solely on their political views[1]. It may also be used for a Jew who is not devout or faithful to his/her Jewish religion, or a Jew who doesn't "act Jewish"; regardless whether they hate their Jewish faith or not.

"Self-loathing Jew" is used synonymously with "self-hating Jew". "Self-hating Jew" has also been compared to the term "Uncle Tom" as used in the African-American community.

Professor Sander L. Gilman of the University of Illinois-Chicago defines Self-Hatred as[5]:

...the internalization of the negative stereotypes about who you are--the identification with the reference group's image of you as 'the other' in society. The person who is labeled as different wants to find out why he or she fits the stereotype, or to prove that he/she does not. But the more one attempts to identify with societal definitions in order to fit in, the more one accepts the attitudes of the determining group, the farther away from true acceptability one seems to be." Obviously this statement could be applied to any group which is the subject of bigotry.
Many psychologists have attempted to explain this phenomenon. According to some theorists, Jewish self-hatred may result from feelings of inferiority brought upon by anti-Semitism they have suffered in the past. This can lead to attempts to distance themselves from their Jewish identity by avoiding activities and styles of dress and appearance currently or traditionally associated with Jewish people. They may also attempt to adopt the behavior patterns and characteristics more predominantly associated with Gentiles. In some cases a Jew will not only distance themselves from other Jews but actually engage in discrimination against other Jews. A famous instance of this happening was the case of Dan Burros who repudiated his Jewish background and joined the Ku Klux Klan, eventually rising to Grand Dragon status, until he committed suicide after the New York Times reported that he was, in fact, Jewish. The film The Believer was loosely based on his life. This phenomenon may also contribute to what has been dubbed the Silent Holocaust of modern assimilated Jews in free societies. Based on his widely publicized anti-Semitic statements, Bobby Fischer could be considered another example.


[edit] Historical origins of the term
According to Professor Gilman, the term "self-hating Jew" comes from a disagreement over the validity of the Jewish reform movement between neo-Orthodox Jews of the Breslau seminary in Germany and Reform Jews in the 19th century. Some neo-Orthodox Jews viewed reform Jews as inauthentic Jews under the perceived notion that the Reformers identified with German Protestantism and German nationalism. In response, some Reform Jews labeled the neo-Orthodox Jews "self-haters" in return. Today there is still a serious schism between Orthodox and Reform Judaism, but the rhetoric has changed; most Orthodox and Reform Jews do not refer to each other as self-hating Jews.

One of the problems with defining Jewish self-hatred is defining what it means to be a Jew and thus what it means for a Jew to hate himself. Some Zionists define Jews who support most forms of anti-Zionism as self-hating.

The term self-hatred has been applied by a large segment of the Jewish community against a number of Jewish authors who have written material that the Jewish community considers anti-Semitic. The Anti-Defamation League's report on The Talmud in Anti-Semitic Polemics states:

In distorting the normative meanings of rabbinic texts, anti-Talmud writers frequently remove passages from their textual and historical contexts. . . . They are thus able to ignore Judaism’s long history of social progress and paint it instead as a primitive and parochial religion. . . . Are the polemicists anti-Semites? This is a charged term that should not be used lightly, but the answer, by and large, is yes. Now and then a polemicist of this type may himself have been born Jewish, but their systematic distortions of the ancient texts, always in the direction of portraying Judaism negatively, their lack of interest in good-faith efforts to understand contemporary Judaism from contemporary Jews, and their dismissal of any voices opposing their own, suggests that their goal in reading ancient rabbinic literature is to produce the Frankenstein version of Judaism that they invariably claim to have uncovered.