| November 7, 2010 | |||
| 37:56 Mins | |||
 |
|||
| Audio Excerpt (1:39 Mins) | |||
|
|||
| Program Link: ‘The word “anti-Semitism” has been overused and abused’ | |||
| …Okay? You’ve seen this video of Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor interviewed by the Post outside a conference on Israeli PR. Palmor said/was pleading basically that antisemitism exists but the word should not be used. Better to speak of “racism,” and “hate speech.” He thinks “antisemitism” the word has been over-used and abused, so even though he admits that “these problems” (as he calls them) exist; meaning the existence of antisemitism and antisemites, let’s call “these problems” by other names.
Once again here is an Israeli who prefers to cover up the truth of antisemitism which is a modern euphemism anyway for perennial Jew-hate and to resort to more universal terms. Antisemitism as something that is not unique. It is a form of “hate speech” and racism, and therefore there is really nothing particularly Jewish about antisemitism today. Let’s cover that up. Fact is, I think, Israelis have, on the contrary, never over-used or abused the term antisemitism. On the contrary they never use it. What is going on is this rising tide in our generation’s version of Jew-hatred and Jew-abuse. And the crazier it gets, the more it has in common with old-fashioned so-called antisemitism… |
|||