a myth, maybe there was a problem years ago, but it has all been fixed now. jks
--- Chris Doss <itschris13 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> I was going over the archives on this thread and got
> supremely annoyed.
>
> Let me state categorically: I don't know about
> Poland, but the idea that
> Russia is noticeably more anti-Semitic than your
> average Western European
> country is a lot of garbage. . . . . >
> Are Jews viewed as "different"? Yes. Are they
> feared? No. Hated? No.
> Resented? No. Targeted? No. Ostracized? No.
>
> Russian Jewish leaders have said clearly, again and
> again and again, that
> anti-Semitism is not a problem in Russia. Yet this
> bogus stereotype
> persists. The desire to have a Dark Continent upon
> which one's fantasies can
> be projected seems to be a strong one in the West.
> Someone much abler than I
> should really do an Orientalism about this.
>
> So I stand by Woj's vampire statement. The idea that
> anti-Semitism is a big
> problem in Russia, and probably Eastern Europe as a
> whole, is a whole lot of
> crap.
>
>
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