Re: CHAT: Anti-Semitism

* Andreas Johansson said on 2004-04-11 22:31:49 +0200
> 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.
"Zionists" is what they were called by Israelis when I was in Israel.


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