This kind of a statement is always difficult to respond to. What is Helen’s intent in using the word “many”? You can find people, in any identity group of any sort, with whatever opinions you seek. Is Helen intending to paint Jews, in general, with this brush?

Obama’s pastor is a black man who in these recent sermons levied monstrous and racist charges against all whites; and he had “many supporters” at those vicious sermons. (Just listen to their cheers and assents.) If many blacks insist on such horrifying racism against whites, would that be any reason to paint all blacks with THAT brush?

But I am interested in trying to respond in any case.

I am aware that there are Jews that treat Palestinians with prejudice, as second class citizens and as undesirables. It is interesting to me that those Palestinians living in Israel do not fear for their very lives every second of their existence. Put a Jewish community in the middle of any Palestinian controlled territory and I wonder, just what their level of frozen fear would be? Change ‘territory’ to ‘terrortory’ and you’d have a better word explaining their circumstance. Or Lebanon. Or Syria. Or Saudi Arabia. Or Egypt. Or Iran. etc, etc, etc.

HADITH Sahih Muslim [41:6985]
The last hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews and the Muslims would kill them until the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree and a stone or a tree would say: Muslim, or the servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him; but the tree Gharqad would not say, for it is the tree of the Jews.

Please find a similar pronouncement by Jehovah indicating that Jews will not be allowed to reach the Promised Land, nor Salvation, until such a time as they had cleansed the very earth of all Muslims.

I challenge all multiculturalists to identify characteristics of any culture that are to be criticized, and to do so. It is so easy to criticize the Nazis; they are nearly extinct, and they are Western, and they are white. It takes much more courage and wisdom to criticize what you see today, and the Palestinians and most Arabs are to be criticized for this endless campaign of genocide.

There is no such campaign of genocide by Jews against Palestinians nor against any Arabs or any sort or state.

Israel and her Jews are not at all above criticism. (Nor is America.) However, to hold Israel to a higher standard is racist. To refuse to criticize the Palestinians for their murderous genocidal attempts; and then to criticize Israel for sins of a much lesser nature… there is a word for that. There are several adjectives for that as well. None of them are complimentary.

Read the MEMRI link I supplied in a previous posting. You tell me where the hate is coming from. Compare the number of Arabs in the Knesset, compared to Jewish people in governments in the Middle East outside Israel. Read the MEMRI link I supplied. Read the MEMRI link I supplied. Read the MEMRI link I supplied.

Your making the above statement shows an appalling lack of knowledge of what it is like outside the US. I repeat: the hate is MUCH stronger coming from the Muslim side than it is from the Jewish side, both in numbers and in intensity. In summation, as a fellow Gentile and fellow American, I am appalled at your ignorance, well-intentioned though you may consider it to be.

For the life of me, I fail to understand why you equate making people aware of anti-Semitism with hating Muslims. Also note this was not a report by the B’nai B’rith, but the US State Department, for Pete’s sake!

I personally think of Jews in the mainstream, but then I am not Jewish and have never been discriminated against due to either race or religion.

You need to get out of the parochial perspective of your nice little town in the South. The posting was about anti-Semitism in the WORLD. How many people of the Jewish faith in the world? Definitely NOT mainstream, a very small part of the world. And to bring up Obama: the posting was about the WORLD, not about the US. Get out of your parochial mindset. This posting was NOT all about the US. Many Americans make the assumption that the US is the world, and the world is the US. Not so. Te lo juro.

Since you are writing from a US-centric perspective, I might add that widespread anti-Semitism ( another term for hating the Jews) is not that far from historical memory in the US. My sweet little Okie Grandmother, who loved me to death, and I loved her back, was also anti-Semitic. I doubt that her attitude towards people of the Jewish faith was that different from most people of her time and place- and I don’t mean just Oklahoma.

and thus the goal of fake liberal justice is to mix the two so that the good can give their goodness to the bad and the bad can give their badness to the good. Eventually equality is achieved.

When a person judges another as evil, then this prevents anyone from giving evil sacrifices from the part of the good. This prevents equality in that it prevents evil from gorging on things that might change it, which is not an optimum consequence for the goal of equality.

I am saying that Jews ought to be able to make a least one Muslim friend. I’m talking about one on one. When that happens, suddenly we are able to see with different eyes. Likewise, when white Americans make one African American friend, they can see, too.

Unfortunately for those people making friends, violence and war is not predicated upon how well you understand or do not understand each other.

If one considers Judaism as a religion, I think much of the time one can substitute Christian for Jewish in anything I said. Sometimes antisemitism is not far from anti-Zionism. But hate is hate, no matter what.

Bookworm, Indeed, there is evil among us. But what I believe plain and simple is that there is both good and evil in everyone, but not in the same amounts. There is good is the worst human being, and badness in the best. Pure goodness is found only in God. I have stated before that I have no problem locking up the worse criminal offenders and throwing away the key. We must protect society, especially the young, old and ahndicapped, from violent people.

Barack Obama is not a violent person. And he is not my first choice for President for a number of reasons, none of which is his personal faith.

Because Europe and their leaders are more in agreement with the Arabic autocrat system of ethics and law than they are to a place like the United States or Israel.

This is only one of the reasons why that is so.

Link

Whether there is good in us all or not, usually it only comes out once the skin is flayed, Book. For some, they can perhaps gouge it out and keep it safe, that inherent and intrinsic goodness within, but for most, special tools and methods may be needed.

Ort is it that pointing out anti-Semitism is inherently anti-Islamic? Perhaps it is because so many Muslim preachers refer to Jews as “apes and pigs?” Oh, but that’s part of their “tradition.” Just like wanting to build mosques in Rome and anywhere else in the western world, but forbidding the construction of Christian churches in the entire territory of Saudi Arabia.

http://www.memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Area=sr&ID=SR01002#II

Where are all the Muslims denouncing such anti-Semitism? Mighty silent, they are.

Sadly, I’ve been tracking this for some time now, and this is yet another confirmation. A co-worker at my office made a very good point back in 2006 about the rising antisemitism during Israel’s war with Lebanon.

She was confounded why Europe behaved so anti-Israel when out of the entire Middle East, Israel is the sole beacon of freedom and the only country with shared Western values. More bewildering to her was how Europe tended to consistently side with the Muslims and the Palestinians even though their culture and ideology and ideals are barbaric to Western sensibilities. So, why do they have vitriolic reactions against a country they have more in common with than the Muslim nations?

I haven’t come up with an adequate answer to her question. Whatever secular reason I come up with– differing political ideology, historical divisions over who owns what, etc. — just falls apart upon closer inspection.

The question that brings me up short is simply this: If the State of Israel conceded all points to the Palestinians and their Muslim neighbors, would Israel’s Muslim neighbors cease to kill Jews? The answer is no. It is written in their Koran to kill Jews whenever they can. And on top of that, the Koran advocates mendacity and duplicity to achieve their ends of a Muslim Caliphate across the world. The Muslims in the Middle East, at root, don’t care much about the Palestinians, but they care deeply about the destruction of Israel.

Europeans know this is true, and all their secular arguments against Israel and Jews in favor of the Muslims are inexplicable in any rational sense.

I see this antisemitism across the world in a straightforward spiritual light. Rational secular arguments don’t provide any answers reasons. But spiritual speaking, the answer is simple.

Like it or not, the Hebrews are the chosen people of God. And for that reason alone, the world will actively hate them… and hunt them. This is the only reason that makes sense to me.

There is evil among us, and what distinguishes men of true good will from others is that they call it by name, not that they set up a straw man concept of “everyone is good,” except for those who bad mouth others.

Mind you, if you’re going to set yourself up as judge, it’s important to be able to tell the difference between stuff you don’t like, or with which you disagree, and stuff that is genuinely evil. Wishing horrible death upon others because of their race, religion, nationality or sex is evil. I’m okay with calling it like I see at to those practitioners of Islam who do have those wishes. I don’t wish the same on them, but I do believe we need to be constantly vigilant and appropriate defensive. And when push comes to shove, we need to save ourselves, and hang the cost to them.

The point that the ad made:

In many circles today, it is considered worse to judge evil than to do evil.

That really is so clear, concise and true. I feel like I’ve been coming to that conclusion myself for a long time but for whatever reason, was grappling with it. I wouldn’t have been able to put my feelings into words but that is it precisely.

It’s scary. I mean - there is no end to the evil that can occur if large portions of a population refuse to judge evil.

Deana