http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cg...NG9DNQ8TC1.DTL
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Presbyterians, college professors and even San Francisco grocery shoppers are fighting accusations of anti-Semitism.
Former President Jimmy Carter, too, is battling the label since the release of his book comparing Israel's treatment of Palestinians to South Africa's abolished apartheid policies.
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As the role of religion has grown in American politics, so have faith-based stereotypes. Evangelical Christians have been smeared as simple and anti-intellectual, and Muslims are associated with terrorism. The "new anti-Semite" label is striking, in part, because it is splitting members of many faiths. Episcopal and Presbyterian priests are among those speaking at Sunday's conference.
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The "new anti-Semitism" is more subtle. An Israeli politician, Natan Sharansky, first set out three general themes many people now propose to define the new term. Known as the "3-D's," those themes are:
-- Demonization of Israel with comparisons to Nazi Germany.
-- De-legitimizing Israel by saying it doesn't have a right to exist.
-- Double standards that apply one set of moral standards to Israel while ignoring similar failings of other countries.
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Anthony Julius, a British attorney who is the keynote speaker at the conference, believes new anti-Semitism springs from "inflation of the significance of Israel" by people on the political left around the world and by many Muslims.
"It parallels the medieval preoccupation with the Jew," said Julius. "In real life, Jews are of marginal significance and small in number ... but they acquire a mystical strength and centrality, which then becomes the subject of obsessive interest."
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According to this way of thinking, Julius said, resolving Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the single route to harmony.
"There'll be no more terrorism. Everyone will settle down," he said of the notion. "As if the Sunni-Shia mutual terrorism in Iraq has anything to do with Israel and Palestinians. It's absurd."
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In another thread I put up an article about Jimmy Carter's' blatant anti-Semitism and one of the first things that was posted is that people said that they aren't anti-semite just because they are anti-Israeli policies.
I say bullshit. These people hate Jews and try to hide behind "legitimate" criticism of Israeli policies to mask their hatred.
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"It's not a fantasy that there's anti-Semitism on the left," said Rabbi Michael Lerner, a leader of progressive faith politics
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Of course it isn't. The left perfected anti-Semitism in Russia/USSR.
There are more interesting tidbits in this article like how these stupid lefties think that it is perfectly okay to compare Israel with Nazi Germany.
So what do you thinK?
Does the left harbor deep anti-Semitism and mask it as "legitimate" criticism of Israeli policies?