Israelis fired on girl identified as 10-year old (w/tape)

[gilliam]

****‘Anti-Zionism not the same as anti-Semitism’, say Vatican officials. ****

The Vatican is playing down a statement that emerged from a Catholic-Jewish meeting in Buenos Aires earlier this month which condemned “anti-Zionism” as a form of anti-Semitism (The Tablet, 17 July). Sources in Rome told the National Catholic Reporter’s Vatican correspondent, John Allen, that the statement did not mark a shift in Vatican policy towards Israel or the Middle East.
Full Article:

thetablet.co.uk/cgi-bin/citw.cgi/past-00190

Some much needed clarification.

No, no changes. The 1988 statement on The Church and Racism still holds.

 

[gilliam]

The “New” Anti-Semitism

Already in 1988, the Holy See’s Commission for Justice and Peace, in its document, The Church and Racism, noted that “anti-Zionism – which is not of the same order (as anti-Semitism), since it questions the State of Israel and its policies – serves at times as a screen for anti-Semitism, feeding on it and leading to it.”[21]* Old conspiracy theories and world domination fantasies are being given new life and are exploiting the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians*.

Cardinal William H. Keeler, Reflections on Anti-Semitism and the Church, June 6, 2004

[21]The Church and Racism, no. 15. Text and commentary can be found in *Anti-Semitism is a Sin *by Eugene Fisher and Leon Klenicki (New York: Anti-Defamation League, 1990).

 

[St.James]

So, the logic is that to protest the killing of Palestinian Semitic children by the Israeli military is a form of “anti-semitism”?

 

[gilliam]

Don’t believe everything you read in the Guardian: Guardian of British Distortion

 

[St.James]

And we know this attack against the Guardian is true because HonestReporting.com says so. And we know they are “honest” because… well, they’re “honestreporting.com”

Wecome to the age of the Orwellian.

Here is a little bit from “honestreporting.com” that may help expalin their bias …uh, I mean “honest reporting.”

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In June 2002, major editorial changes occurred at CNN which greatly shifted public perception of the Arab-Israel conflict in general, and the role of Palestinian suicide bombers in particular. HonestReporting was cited in The New York Times (July 1, 2002) as playing a role in this shift, and the Jerusalem Post reported that "HonestReporting.com readers sent up to 6,000 e-mails a day to CNN executives, effectively paralyzing their internal e-mail system."

I see, if you believe that the news isn’t Zionist enough, just organize a pack to bully the agencies into reporting the news your way.

 

[bapcathluth]

St. James:

Night Rider, thank you for you kind words.

I would further state that the use of the epithet, “anti-semitism” in this context reveals a serious lack of understanding on the part of those whose arguments are based on it.

The Palestinians themselves are Semites.

The term anti-Semitism was coined in late 18th century Germany by a journalist there to describe anti-Jewish sentiment. It has meant anti-Jewish since then.

 

[St.James]

bapcathluth:

The term anti-Semitism was coined in late 18th century Germany by a journalist there to describe anti-Jewish sentiment. It has meant anti-Jewish since then.

It’s a clever distortion of language. However, Arabs didn’t cease to be Semites just because a journalist coined an intellectually dishonest term.

Arabs are Semites. The term “anti-semite,” aside from being a weapon used to crush dissent, is meaningless as it is used here.