Re: CHAT: Anti-Semitism

On Sun, 11 Apr 2004 22:31:49 +0200, Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
wrote:

> 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.
Probably, but in the context of a discussion where the word
"anti-Semitism" was being used in it's modern narrow sense, I wouldn't
hesitate to use "pro-Semitism" to identify the polar opposite set of
opinions.




Paul

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