[lbo-talk] Right wing Israeli political party goes to Arab part of Jaffa and hands out leaflets calling Arabs to emigrate for money...fighting commences

[Marvin Gandall]

Growing up, I remember it being used in an anti-semitic context, maybe still
is, as in: "Those Jews watch their shekels."

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Devine" <jdevine03 at gmail.com>
To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 11:49 AM
Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Right wing Israeli political party goes to Arab part
of Jaffa and hands out leaflets calling Arabs to emigrate for
money...fighting commences


>I found the following by googling: >In Judges 17, the prophet, Micah
> hires a Levite as his personal priest. The price for the Levite's
> services was ten shekels (of silver) and a shirt.< from
> http://www.sermonindex.net/modules/mydownloads/singlefile.php?lid=282
>
> this might be where the negative connotation that I perceived came
> from, since it seems to be about religion for sale. Or maybe it comes
> from anti-semitism.
>
> On 3/23/06, Bryan Atinsky <bryan at alt-info.org> wrote:
>>
>> Huh...the word shekel has a negative connotation?
>>
>> How is it used in that way?
>>
>> Bryan
>>
>> Jim Devine wrote:
>> > what is the historical origin of the fact that the word "shekel" has
>> > negative connotations?
>> > Jim Devine
>> >
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