Old school antisemitism = Jews are a fundamentally Middle-eastern people who donāt belong in Europe. If they wonāt understand this, weāll just have to teach them the hard way.
New antisemitism = Jews are a fundamentally European people who donāt belong in the Middle-East. If they wonāt understand this, then we will just have to teach them the hard way. And oh what the hell, letās have a go at them here too.
The writer claims Israel's establishment in 1948 involved the killing of tens of thousands of innocent Palestinians, the theft of their land and the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their country.
In full Malaysiakini. Racist huh? Look in Malaysia itself, there are so many cases, not worth my time to mention. He forgets to mention, the number of Arab troops committed to the war with the intention of obliterating Israel.The attack in 1948 was started by an Egyptian air attack on Tel Aviv, from the north, from the east and south came the armies of Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Transjordan, and Egypt.
The invading forces were fully equipped with the standard weapons of a regular army of the time - artillery, tanks, armored cars and personnel carriers, in addition to machine guns, mortars and the usual small arms in great quantities, and full supplies of ammunition, oil, and gasoline. Further, Egypt, Iraq, and Syria had air forces.
In contrast, the Jews had no matching artillery, no tanks, and no warplanes in the first days of the war. Some supplies of these weapons arrived in the days that followed, however, and turned the tide.
More...Israel is considered illegitimate for it's creation led to thousands upon thousands of Arab refugees, is as anti-Jewish as is anti-Zionism. Virtually every country in the world was founded by displacing some or part of the people who had lived there, and many of those countries did far worse to far more people than Israel did. Therefore, anyone who calls only for Israelās destruction had better explain why, of all the states, like Pakistan, Kosovo and many more on earth whose founding was accompanied by the displacement of others, only the Jewish state is illegitimate.
Take Pakistan, for example. Unlike the Jewish state of Israel, which had existed twice before in history, there was never a country called Pakistan, nor was there ever any other independent Muslim country in that part of India that was carved out to create Pakistan, to cater for the descendants of the genocidal invaders,
where the population of Hindus decreased by 80 million! Moreover, if the Jewish state of Israel is illegitimate because it created thousands of Arab refugees, why isnāt the Muslim state of Pakistan, which created more than
eight million Hindu refugees, illegitimate?
The horrendous massacres by Pakistanis that accompanied this catastrophe, which was actually theft of land and property. Millions of innocent civilians killed, trainloads of dead and mutilated bodies exchanged. The ability of people to ignore this and to pick on Israel shows hatred for the Jews. When people isolate the one Jewish state in the world for sanctions and delegitimizing her, they are doing so because it is a Jewish state. That is quite simply why anti-Zionism is simply another form of Jew-hatred.
Anyone can criticize Israel all they want. That does not make one an antisemite. But if one is an anti-Zionist or advocates the destruction of the Jewish state, then letās be clear: One is an enemy of the Jews and of Judaism, and the word for such a person is anti-Semite.
