True Anti-Semites
By Paul Edwards
A curious effect inevitably results when a trendy term, a slang neologism, or a catch-word is used to death. It loses all meaning along with its currency and is dropped from hip vocabulary. This fate impends for the hysterically abused pejorative “anti-Semitic”.
The term had a legitimate beginning, as used to describe the historic persecution of Jews in ignorant, Christian-indoctrinated Europe where vicious pogroms occurred in many countries over hundreds of years. It found its perfect application when applied to the industrial-scale murder of Jews by the monstrous Nazi death machine during WWII, which exposed the psychotic prejudice that fueled that detestable, methodical slaughter.
After the horror of the Holocaust was known to the world, the term underwent a subtle modification in connotation, from being a direct indictment of murderous prejudice, to being conceived as a kind of conceptual shield, a defense against any criticism of the de facto transformation, by violence, of Palestine, with its long established population of Arab people, into Israel.
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