Since everyone's doing it, here's a Twitter-friendly definition of antisemitism:
Hostility toward,
denigration of or
discrimination against
Jews
as individual Jews,
as a people,
as a religion,
as an ethnic group or
as a nation (i.e., Israel.)
Critiques welcome.
Hostility toward,
denigration of or
discrimination against
Jews
as individual Jews,
as a people,
as a religion,
as an ethnic group or
as a nation (i.e., Israel.)
Critiques welcome.
Some Jews identify as being part of the Jewish religion, some are atheists but part of the Jewish people, some as an ethnic group, some as Zionist - the Jewish nation. All of these are legitimate aspects of Jewishness.
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Attacking Jews as a religious group is clearly antisemitic even to Jews who don't adhere to the religion. Likewise, attacking the Jewish state is just as antisemitic as attacking the Jews as a people. Why distinguish between different aspects?
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Using this prism, it is obvious that discrimination against, denigration of or hostility towards Israel isn't "legitimate criticism." It is bigotry, and in line with the same anti-Jewish bigotry Jews have experienced for millennia.
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I like the word "denigration" because it specifically means unfair criticism. One cannot argue that this definition excludes legitimate criticism of Judaism, Jewish institutions or the Jewish state - it clearly doesn't.
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