Re: CHAT: Anti-Semitism
| From: | Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, April 11, 2004, 20:13 |
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On Sun, 11 Apr 2004 14:35:05 -0400, John Cowan <cowan@...> wrote:
> For this reason, some people (including me) use the spelling
> "Antisemitism"
> in English as well, to indicate that it is an indecomposable term: there
> is after all no "pro-Semitism" to which it could be opposed as a coherent
> philosophy, though the term "philo-Semitism" is occasionally found
> meaning simply "person who likes Jews as a group".
Beg to differ. There are people (this is not the whole Jewish population,
nor is it an exclusively Jewish group) who believe almost fanatically that
the Jewish state has done no wrong, can do no wrong and will never do
wrong. I'd call them pro-Semites, without hesitating.
Paul
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