Amy Goodman of DemocracyNow: Often when there is descent expressed in the United States against policies of the Israeli government, people here are called anti-Semitic, what is your response to that as an Israeli Jew? Shulamit Aloni: “Well it’s a trick we always use it, when in Europe somebody is criticizing Israel, then we bring up the holocaust. When in this country people are criticizing well, then they are anti-Semitic.” Aloni was a board member of Yesh Din, an organization founded in 2005 which focuses on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories. She defended U.S. President Jimmy Carter's use of the word "apartheid" in the title of his book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid. Later, Aloni said, "I hate to cover up things that should be open to the sun."
WHO ARE THE SEMITES??
Semitic people or Semites is a term for an ethnic, cultural or racial group[2][3][4][5] associated with people of the Middle East and the Horn of Africa, including Akkadians (Assyrians and Babylonians), Arabs, Arameans, Canaanites (Ammonites, Edomites, Israelites, Moabites, Phoenicians, and Philistines) and Habesha peoples. The terminology is now largely unused outside the grouping "Semitic languages" in linguistics.[6][7][8] First used in the 1770s by members of the Göttingen school of history, this biblical terminology for race was derived from Shem (שֵׁם), one of the three sons of Noah in the Book of Genesis,[9] together with the parallel terms Hamites and Japhetites………… In archaeology, the term is sometimes used informally as "a kind of shorthand" for ancient Semitic-speaking peoples.[8] The use of the term as a racial category is considered obsolete.
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Anti-Semitism has been weaponized to guilt trip the world into allowing them to “defend” themselves at all costs. All they have to do is bring up the Holocaust and that mutes any opposition. If the opposition gets too loud, then they can cry “you are an anti-Semite”. And if the cries continue to get louder, then you support Hamas and they will use their “lobby” to censor and deport you. Their aggressions are now ignored as we circle back to their right “to defend themselves’ from all Jew haters.
It’s a ingenious self-fulfilling prophesy. The world stands by because the bottom line is the world is culpable in its own acts of war crimes and genocide long before the first Jewish settler landed in Palestine. The only difference is they had no so-called “Holy Book” claiming to be “God’s Chosen” people. The other aggressors believed they had the might thus the right to destroy their enemies in wars that raped, pillaged and stole land that didn’t belong to them. It’s the nature of Empire.
The so-called World leaders who could put a stop to this have all kissed the wall, shook the hand and pledged their allegiance to the “never again” noose around their necks. Israel can and has used the atrocities of other nations as a mirror. How can you fault Israel when you have the same skeletons in your closet. Netanyahu has already openly challenged nations with “what did you do when you were attacked by terrorists?”
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