At 04:26 PM 4/27/2002 -0400, Wirt Atmar wrote:
> From today's NY Times:
>
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>
>April 27, 2002
>
>Anti-Semitism Is Deepening Among Muslims
>By SUSAN SACHS
>
>Stay in a five-star hotel anywhere from Jordan to Iran, and you can buy the
>infamous forgery "Protocols of the Elders of Zion." Pick up a newspaper in
>any part of the Arab world and you regularly see a swastika superimposed on
>the Israeil flag.
>
>Such anti-Semitic imagery is now embedded in the mainstream discourse
>concerning Jews in much of the Islamic world, in the popular press and in
>academic journals.

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>
>It's rare to catch the NY Times in a major faux pas, but it's difficult, if
>not essentially impossible for Arabs to be anti-semitic. The semitic people
>*are* the Arabs, as well as the Phoenicians, the Akkadians, and the Hebrews.
>For all of the nonsense that goes on in the Mid-East, the great majority of
>the people there share the same basic language, the same basic culture, the
>same basic religion, the same basic history and the same basic genes.
>
>In fact, if it weren't for these conditions, I don't think that they would be
>able to kill each other with such joy.
>
>Nevertheless, a more proper title for the article would be: "Anti-Zionism Is
>Deepening Among Muslims."
>
>Wirt Atmar

I think it's more than "Anti-Zionism". It is bigotry directed against all
Jews, whether they live in Israel (Zion) or not. There is no convenient
shorthand for such bigotry, which is why the term "anti-semitic" is used
even though Arabs, etc are technically Semites.

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Tom Brandt
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Ann Arbor, MI 48103
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