Re: CHAT: Anti-Semitism

Quoting Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...>:

> 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.
I'd call them "pro-Israelis", rather.

                                               Andreas

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