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>From: "Charles Brown" <CharlesB at CNCL.ci.detroit.mi.us>
>To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
>Subject: Re: Anti-semitic, anti-immigrant
>Date: Fri, Nov 19, 1999, 4:32 PM
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> Are you sure anti-Semitism is the correct term outside of Europe ?
the only problem with the term is that not all Jews are semites. The term, I believe, was conied in the 19th century, in Germany. And it means anti-judaism.
> For
> example, Palestinians are not only Semites, but vicitms of Israeli
> imperialism. Thus, Palestinian antagonism toward Israelit Jews is not the
> response of an oppressor group scapegoating an oppressed group, and is
> fundamentally different than European anti-Semitism.
Israel (the state-nation) is much younger than the anti-judaism of (some) Palestinians.
ciao, alessandro