Antisemitism

An etymological misnomer with no substantive meaning. In current widespread use to demonise people deemed to be threatenting to cherished Judaic official narratives and to close down rational debate.

Antisemitism
Type	political
Start	1879
Interest of	• Academic Response Against Racism and Anti-Semitism in Europe • All-Party Parliamentary Group against Antisemitism • Anti-Defamation League • Gilad Atzmon • B'nai B'rith • Oliver Coppard • European Forum on Antisemitism • Gideon Falter • Jonathan Freedland • International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance • Jewish Defence League • Caitlin Johnstone • Brian Klug • Ronald Lauder • Antony Lerman • Heiko Maas • Emanuele Ottolenghi • Euan Philipps • Rachel Riley • Shlomo Sharan • Asa Winstanley
An etymological misnomer with no substantive meaning. In current widespread use to demonise people deemed to be threatenting to cherished Judaic official narratives and to close down rational debate.

Antisemite (root - semite; adjective - antisemitic; derivative - antisemitism; etymology - a person opposed to "Semites").

According to the Encyclopedia Britannica entry written by Michael Berenbaum, himself a Jew, the term was originally coined by Wilhelm Marr in 1897 to designate the anti-Jewish campaigns under way in central Europe at that time . It remains in widespread use with similar notional meaning in Official Narratives and with its root "Semite" meaning "Jew/Jewish/Judaic".

However, in semantic terms it is a gross and confusing misnomer in that semitic defines a group of languages far more accurately than it does race or religion and in both usages it encompasses vastly more non-Jewish (especially Arab) than Jewish peoples – which renders it particularly absurd in the context of the Middle East.

In the nineteenth century it was used as much as a self-description by people wishing to proclaim their dislike or opposition to Jewry; whereas in today’s topsy-turvy world, an "antisemite" is best defined as someone who is disliked or opposed by the Jewish PR industry and petty politicians on the make.

It has no substantive meaning other than as an insulting epithet and, like its close relative "Holocaust denier", it's primary usage is to demonise and close down rational debate on matters deemed offensive or otherwise critical of important Judaic Official Narratives

 

Examples

Page name	Description
Adolf Eichmann	Eichmann: the logistics chief of the Holocaust
Veterans Today	Named as an outlet of "Fake News" by PropOrNot.

 

A “Antisemitism” victim on Wikispooks

Title	Description
David Miller	Founder of Powerbase & Spinwatch and incisive anti-Zionist reporter on world affairs

 

Related Quotations

Page	Quote	Author	Date
Donald Jeffries	“Just talking about the Rothschilds, the most preeminent banking family in the world, brings an instant charge of anti-Semitism." The Rothschilds are such shadowy figures that, when I was writing Survival of the Richest, I really couldn’t include much about them. Unlike all the other One Percenters, their wealth is hard to calculate, and their influence seems purposefully hidden. There's just no information out there about them, other than the allegations of "conspiracy theorists," who by mentioning them become, of course, dastardly "anti-Semites."”	Donald Jeffries	2024
Victor Ostrovsky	“When I was in the Mossad and we had a guy that gave us problems in the US, and he was speaking out, and he was talking like, like Pete talked once and said: "Israel is bombing Lebanon with cluster bombs". We say hey, who is that guy? Pete מקק we used to call him, which is Pete the cockroach. Because he makes a lot of noise and you can't get rid of him. So what you do is you get in touch with the guy in the station in New York, or in the station in Washington and you say: tell the guys at B'nai B'rith to label him. And of course the campaign starts and before you know it the guy is labelled .. and he is an anti-semite. Because that's what we say he is. And that's one stain that you can not wash.”	Victor Ostrovsky	1 September 1995
Alan Sabrosky	“Bonnie, KPFA will cease broadcasting “Guns and Butter” effective immediately. We’ve received an avalanche of negative calls and emails from listeners about your uncritically airing of views by a holocaust denier, climate denial and casting the Parkland mass shooting survivors as crisis actors. As steward [sic.] of our airways, we can’t defend this content to our listeners. Sincerely, Quincy McCoy Kevin Cartwright General Manager Program Director”	Alan Sabrosky Quincy McCoy Kevin Cartwright	8 August 2018

 

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File:Antisemitism-Cui Bono.pdf	review	2006	Kerry Bolton	A study of the relationship between Zionism and its perennial allegations of antisemitism among majority gentile populations, especially in Europe and the USA
File:Labour internal antisemitism report.pdf	report	March 2020	Labour Party	An enormous (851 pages) report of an internal UK Labour Party investigation into alleged antisemitism in the Party between 2014 and 2019.

 

Official examples

Name
"9-11/Israel did it"
Boycott Divestment and Sanctions
Willis Carto
Alison Chabloz
David Miller
Archibald Maule Ramsay
Alan Sabrosky
Ernst Zündel

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