Are there really so many anti-semites or it is ...?

Question

Are there really so many anti-semites or it is just the wrong use of the word anti-semite that makes seem as if there are
so many anti-semites.
I thought anti-semetism means ranting about the Jewish beliefs (i.e the religion Judaism).
I usually disagree with the Jews on the Israel section but they never called me anti-semite. However, I hear a lot of people saying that anybody who disagrees with a Jew on something, be it religion, politics, or even other things is called anti-semite. Could this wrong use of the word anti-semite be the reason why "there are so many anti-semites?"

Thanks Gamla Joe.
Yeah I agree with you. We have to put a limit to many Israel section users. It was one of the best sections but they made it a boring and a hateful section.

Peace/Salaam/Shalom

Answer 1

A little yes and no, to be honest.

Ranting about Judaism does not necessarily make one an anti-Semite, but disagreeing with a Jew on something also certainly doesn't make a person anti-Semitic.

But it could be both of those things, if that person is only doing the thing he/she is doing BECAUSE the person is Jewish. Sounds confusing, I know, I will try to explain.

Say two people hate Israel.

Person A: I hate Israel because it streamlines the citizenship process for Jews and not for anybody else.
Person B: I hate Israel because it is a Jewish state.

Person B would be an anti-Semite, because the only reason s/he hates Israel is because it's a Jewish state...do you know what I mean?

Conversely, not everyone who disagrees with Jewish beliefs is an anti-Semite.

Person A: I do not like that the ancient Jews practiced animal sacrifices because I think it is animal cruelty.
Person B: I do not like that the ancient Jews practiced animal sacrifices because I think they are bloodthirsy Jews.

I think you can kind of see my point; Person B comes with all kinds of variations, and the process is made even more difficult by lies.

People who hate Jews often make up lies to disguise the fact that they can't come up with a legitimate reason to hate Jews--that's where determining who is and who isn't an anti-Semite gets tricky. I think the excuse vs. reasons for anti-Semitism are outlined very well is this website:

http://www.aish.com/seminars/whythejews/

And Mimi, I am very glad nobody has called you an anti-Semite, because I think you are person A and definitely not one!

Peace, shalom, salaam,
L.S.
Any questions or comments from anyone, feel free to email me

Answer 2

Anti-Semitism is a hatred of people of Jewish ancestry; the Jew-haters who invented that term hated Jews. Period. Whether or not Jews are Semites, Khazars, Vikings -- it doesn't matter. If you want to be a purist, you can call anti-Semitism "Jew-hatred" or "bias against Jews". It's just semantics, anyway: a rose, be it called by any other name, would smell as sweet, and anti-Semitism by any other name would be the same ugly bigotry. That Jews aren't Semites is a non-sequitur often employed by anti-Semites in an asinine argument that anti-Semitism is okay if you direct it at someone other than a Semite (supposedly), or that anti-Semitism is cool because it doesn't exist. Hatred of Judaism is anti-Semitic, but a *racial* hatred of Jews (though Jews are not, per se, a race) is also anti-Semitism. (Incidentally, the same people who are now saying that "most Jews aren't Semites" were sending Jews to the gas chambers 65 years ago. Naturally, hypocrisy is a big part of anti-Semitism.)

Is disagreeing with a Jew anti-Semitism? Well, it depends. If I say that Jews have the right to exist and you disagree, that, sorry to say, makes you (not you personally, but a hypothetical "you") an anti-Semite. Yeah, "everyone has a right to an opinion", blah, blah, blah -- I've heard that bull-****. Alas, opinions are not self-justifying; and an opinion does not deserve endorsement or "respect" merely because it exists. The simple truth is, some opinions are anti-Semitic and are correctly identified as such. Look closely at the statements that those accused of anti-Semitism have made. More often than not -- much more often -- they contain classic anti-Semitic myths: that Jews run the world, that Jews are money-grubbing, that Jews plot to kill non-Jewish babies, etc. Denying Jews the same rights and privileges as all the other people in the world, holding us to a different standard than everyone else, holding our lives cheaper than everyone else's -- all that is anti-Semitism.

Of course, many anti-Semites claim that they don't hate Jews, only Zionists. I wish more people would realize just how OLD this is. In the 1920's, anti-Semites were saying that they did not hate Jews, just RELIGIOUS Jews. Guess what? In the end, ancestry was the only basis for sending Jews to the death camps. Same with the "anti-Zionists" today. Read their comments, and you will see that they use world "Jew", "Israeli", and "Zionist" interchangeably. (I haven't met a single "anti-Zionist" that doesn't.) Besides, the idea itself that Jews are acceptable only so long as they don't have a homeland is also anti-Semitic. I mean, how would you feel if someone told you "I have nothing against the Palestinians, but any Palestinian who wants a Palestinian state is evil"?

Answer 3

Hello,

Not agreeing with Israel's political and military policies in Gaza or the West bank is not Anti- Semitic. Neither is saying that the US puts too much money and support into Israel. What is being Anti-Semitic and crass stupidity as well is lying about historical facts, making hasty generalizations about a whole vast group of people, calling them a race when they are a religion made up of many races and coming up with unprovable foolish conspiracy theories that cannot be documented or correctly verified.

Cheers,

Michael Kelly

Answer 4

Anti-semetic is truthfully an improper word, because of the fact it is meaning excludes different semetic those which at the instant are not Jewish. So, a semite would additionally be an anti-semite. I do regularly ask your self approximately words that regularly exist with in basic terms one polarizing prefix. I mean, there are actual professional-semites accessible, however the term is on no account used. Hell, even spell-verify would not prefer me to sort it. yet an "anti-non-semite" would have a meaning extra to do with Semitism than Judiasm itself. form of like the anti-gringos in Mexico. would not remember what faith they are, they do unlike foriegners. I do love the form you're attacked for asking this question. it is not even remotely anti-laptop, till they upped the laptop regulations.

Answer 5

Disagreeing with a Jew or an Arab(Arabs are Semites as well) does not mean you are anti-Semite. Being bias towards Jews, being prejudice and assuming things about Jews makes you ant-Jewish not necessarily Anti-Semite because you would be pooling in Arabs as well.

Answer 6

Hey Mimi

I absolutely do not think you are an anti-semite and I am glad no one in the Israel section has called you so.

I would consider someone like

"the cia" as an anti-semtie

because of statements like the one below
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AkFu908Toml241VKn_W5k0Tsy6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20071117025811AAZCLmP&show=7#profile-info-5b1ffb4d726c71868f5ae1efc0c1a511aa

Answer 7

Muslims who are the most attacked by this term are semitic also Christians are semitic as the prophets of Islam Christianity and Judaism are all sons of Sam

Answer 8

Anti semitism is the hatred of the Jews simply because they are Jews. They are God's chosen people and it is a God given miracle that they still exist.. Read what Mark Twain said ...

"If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of star dust lost in the blaze of the Milky Way. Properly the Jew ought hardly to be heard of, but he is heard of, has always been heard of. He is as prominent on the planet as any other people, and his commercial importance is extravagantly out of proportion to the smallness of his bulk. His contributions to the world's list of great names in literature, science, art, music, finance, medicine, and abstruse learning are also away out of proportion to the weakness of his numbers. He has made a marvellous fight in the world, in all the ages; and has done it with his hands tied behind him. He could be vain of himself, and be excused for it. The Egyptian, the Babylonian, and the Persian rose, filled the planet with sound and splendor, then faded to dream-stuff and passed away; the Greek and the Roman followed, and made a vast noise, and they are gone; other peoples have sprung up and held their torch high for a time, but it burned out, and they sit in twilight now, or have vanished. The Jew saw them all, beat them all, and is now what he always was, exhibiting no decadence, no infirmities of age, no weakening of his parts, no slowing of his energies, no dulling of his alert and aggressive mind. All things are mortal but the Jew; all other forces pass, but he remains. What is the secret of his immortality?" Mark Twain

The answer to Twain's question can be found in the book of Jeremiah. Chapter 31, verses 35-37....

Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts is his name: If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the LORD, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever.Thus saith the LORD; If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith the LORD.

At the Battle of Armageddon the whole world will gather to destroy Jerusalem and they will be destroyed by God.

Zechariah 12:9 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.

God bless the Jews , Israel , Jerusalem and all those who love her.

Answer 9

There are people who throw that term around as loosely as "loser". There are some vicious Jew-haters online, but remember, the majority of peoples of the middle east are Semitic.

Answer 10

It's an over used term. In this country today, people love to, "label", other people that get in their way, or agenda. All races do it, no one race is better than the other, some think they are, but they are fooled.