- Are Israeli policies toward Palestine making anti-Zionists,
as well as anti-Semitics?
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- My dictionary defines an anti-Semite as a person who
is hostile toward or prejudiced against Jews.
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- I define an anti-Zionist as a person who is hostile toward
Israeli policies that are not in the best interests of the anti-Zionist's
own country, nor in the best interests of the Palestinian people.
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- (In point of fact, an 'anti-Semite' should be formally
defined as a person who opposes all genetically Semitic peoples...Jew,
Christian, Muslim, Palestinian, Israeli, atheist, etc. -ed)
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- Is it wise to collapse these two separate and distinct
oppositions? Is one really the same as the other? Does it serve any positive
purpose to make one the other?
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- Does the labeling of an anti-Zionist as an anti-Semite
actually create anti-Semitism?
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- Are these questions anti-Semitic by their very nature?
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- Life presents many questions, and elicits many more viewpoints.
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- Secular Jews seem more worried about anti-Semitism than
religious Jews. Religious Jews say part of being Jewish is not fighting
anti-Semitism, but rather practicing Judaism. How can that be?
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- Are secular Jews more pro-Zionist than religious Jews?
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- Would it not be smart for American Jews, who most live
as well as anyone on Earth, to pull their dogs out of the free-for-all
between Zionists, anti-Zionists, and anti-Semitics?
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- Does anti-Semitism, or the promotion of such labeling
work to the favor of secular Jews, at least in their minds?
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- Could many Western Jews actually be causing anti-Semitism
by calling anti-Zionist anti-Semitics?
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- Are Pictures and videos of Palestinian children throwing
rocks toward Israeli bulldozers and tanks creating anti-Zionists and anti-Semitics
alike? Or have such scenes been photo-shopped by crazed anti-Zionists and
rabid anti-Semitics?
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- Many questions, many more viewpoints...
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- J. Speer-Williams
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