[lbo-talk] Dealing with the 'new anti-semitism'

Michael Pugliese michael.098762001 at gmail.com
Sun Sep 3 08:24:51 PDT 2006


The Judith Butler essay is contained in the anthology, "Those Who Forget the Past: The Question of Anti-Semitism, " edited by Ron Rosenbaum.

On the point made by Joel found this. I'll dig up, if need be, numerous statements from the Koran just as racist. (Jews as "monkeys and pigs, " for examples.) Insofar as the conflict expresses itself through irrational ideological notions which demonize the opponent community it will never be solved.

http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/cgi-bin/blogs/voices.php/2006/07/21/atrocities_in_gaza_lebanon_motivated_by_1
>...Atrocities in Gaza, Lebanon Motivated By Talmudic Mentality
by Khalid Amayreh ..."All Gentile children are animals." ( Yebamoth, 98a.); The gentiles are outside the protection of the Law and God has exposed their money to Israel." (Baba Kamma, 37-b.); "God created them in the form of men for the glory of Israel. But Akum (non-Jews) were created for the sole end of ministering unto them (the Jews) day and night. Nor can they ever be relieved from this service. It is becoming to the son of a king (an Israelite) that animals in their natural form, and animals in the form of human beings should minister unto him. ( Midrasch talpioth, fol. 225d; "the sexual intercourse of a Goi is like that of a beast." (Sanhedrin, 74-b, Tosephot).

This article like Joanna, relies on Shahak. A reminder of this critique I posted here, http://andrew.mathis.net/shahak.html



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