This is true, I forgot about that. Anti-Semitism in German is "Antisemitismus". Definitely more roundabout than literally "Jew-hate". And that's what people want ー to disguise it, or make it sound more professional / intellectual.
It wasn't, actually. But you're posting in it a lot. Did you read it and think on it? I suggest you pay particular attention to the part to where it describes your own views. You've been bringing up many individual points which aren't overly relevant. If I could rebut every single claim made by antisemites, it'd never end. o and @Julie you said somewhere that he said it was a disease... He didn't really. He said it was a sign that a society may have a disease. Societies tend to offload their angst at its woes(initially) by blaming Jews, but it may spread to other groups. Foreign or minority or otherwise. It was said by Slavoj Zizek that it was a remarkable sign of Americans that after the collapse of Wall Street, people didn't point fingers at greedy Jewish bankers and put the blame where they so easily could have. It is less a truth-claim, and more a sign of temperament and maturity to actually address the issue. The same can't be said of 9/11, and many incidents including Trump's election.
Richard Dawkins and some other ones can seem very arrogant and anti to very base level interpretations of religion but also seem to think that to be religious at all, you have to believe in the man in the clouds. :/ I don't dig that when I see it either.
Christopher Hitchens was okay, overall. He supported free speech, and he supported crushing our enemies. He also extremely dislike "Mother" Teresa, and his speech against her convinced me that we make her out to be better than she was in reality. However, he changed his mind on waterboarding. So, I would give him an eight out of ten.
The National Socialists were willing to work with certain "Semites," so if the term includes them all, they could be called anti-Semitic. They clearly were anti-Semitic, so obviously anti-Semitism refers exclusively to the Jewish people.
Kefo, Condeming a culture that has deep rooted historical differences with your own is no way to sway them to your side. They feel hurt and betrayed. If someone hurt your ancestors, and was currently hurting your brothers, then told you your culture had a disease...would you believe them and let them destroy your brothers? Or would you think ill of them? I would think ill of them myself. I would forgive them, as it's God's place to judge them. But I wouldn't forget the crimes against my people that have been committed. I would not let it happen over and over again. We must learn from the past or we are doomed to repeat it
Saying their culture has a disease is condeming them. They have reason to feel the way they do. Any rational person in their shoes would.
For my current job I am having to read some authors who were EXTREMELY anti-Judaic and/or anti-Semitic.
Maybe I guess. An inferiority complex, socioecononic issues, educational issues, corruption in government, etc. can all be labelled as diseases. They're all issues that people will be willing to blame someone else for. Poor business, failed aggression, etc. The failure of violent aggression and the shaming of a warrior spirit are HUGE. When you get killed in a game. Is it due to some bs, OP mechanic. Them camping and playing cheaply, etc. or is it due to your lack of skill? Generally speaking, the snap reflex is to yell Dirty Jews! when you die. I don't want you to take disease so literally. We're all uneased by stuff. You just need to reflect. Is there anything unnerving or unsatisfactory about your culture, your society, etc.? It's about what the individual is uneased by. What they see as imperfect. As a disease. You believe we're all born in sin. Or as some theologian probably said, all born diseased. There isn't anything wrong or contemptible or any negative word, with being diseased. It's a natural state. You have something wrong, and you work towards fixing it. Disease avoidance/Pain avoidance. You get it. @Fire, I'll back Rabbi Sacks up on it. But yeah it isn't the words from my own mouth, but this is how I interpret what he says. what work? lol
Sure, we as individuals are not perfect. We sin. But we ask for forgiveness and learn from our mistakes, we do not continue to repeat the same sins over and over. That's how people grow. I just think you're no better than them, condeming their society (which you are not a part of) rather than working towards understanding the underlying root causes of why they distrust the Jewish people. Improve yourself. Make yourself a person they do not hate. You change society by changing yourself first. Lead by example.