Antisemitism
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Anti-Zionism
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Official
Definition
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Hatred
of Jews
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Hatred
of the Jewish state
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What vociferous
proponents really want
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Physical
destruction of the entire Jewish race
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Physical
destruction of the entire Jewish state
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What is
the core belief
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The
Jews are the root cause of most suffering in the world
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The
Jewish state is the root cause of most suffering in the world
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What it
based on
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The
singling out and demonization of Jews based on a set of
complete lies about the political, economic, social and religious behaviour
of Jews
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The
singling out and demonization of the Jewish state based on a set of complete lies about the political, economic, social
and religious behaviour of the Jewish state
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How is
it currently sustained
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Continued
and incessant lies about Jews – much of it emanating from Muslim countries
and academia - promulgated in the media and on the web – that is rarely if
ever challenged
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Continued
and incessant lies about the Jewish State – much of it emanating from Muslim
countries and academia - promulgated in the media and on the web– that is
rarely if ever challenged
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Typical
media presentation
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Cartoons
of big fat Jews who control the world and eat non-Jewish babies; cartoons of
Jews killing non-Jewish children.
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Cartoons
of big fat Jews who control the world and eat non-Jewish babies; cartoons of
Jewish soldiers killing Arab children
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Who
currently are the most virulent proponents
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Muslims, left-wing political activists, Black
panthers, right-wing extremists, racists, self-hating Jews
In
Muslim countries Pew surveys report 96% of the population ‘hate Jews’
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Muslims, left-wing political activists, Black
panthers, right-wing extremists, racists, self-hating Jews
In
Muslim countries Pew surveys report 98% of the population ‘hate Israel’
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Most
common beliefs
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Jews are baby-killers;
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Jews did 9/11
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Jews control America, Britain, France (add any
country you like, including even Arab ones)
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Jews control the world banking system, the United
Nations (add any international organization you like)
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Jews bake the blood of Christian children in
their Passover matzos;
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Zionists are baby-killers;
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Zionists did 9/11
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Zionists control America, Britain, France (add
any country you like, including even Arab ones)
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Zionists control the world banking system, the
United Nations (add any international organization you like)
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Zionists bake the
blood of Arab children in their Passover matzos;
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Tactic
1: Deligitimization
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The message
that the Jews are a depraved, illegitimate, ‘invented’ race. Denial of Jewish
history including its origin in the Middle East.
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The message
that the Jewish State is depraved, ‘invented’ and illegitimate. Denial of
Jewish history including its origin in the Middle East.
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Tactic
2:Boycott
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In the
1930s the Nazi singled out Jews – and Jews only – for economic, cultural,
political, and academic boycott (antisemites still do this informally)
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Singling
out the Jewish State - and only the Jewish State – for economic, cultural,
political, and academic boycott
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Economic
boycott in practice
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Boycott
Jewish businesses; vandalise Jewish-owned shops and their products, including
daubing Swastikas and Stars of David.
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Boycott
Jewish owned Israeli businesses; vandalise Jewish-owned Israeli shops and
their products, including daubing Swastikas and Stars of David.
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Cultural
boycott in practice
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In Nazi
Germany Jewish artists, performers, writers and sportsmen were not allowed to
perform, while books, art, and plays sympathetic to Jews were banned
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Jewish Israeli
artists, performers, writers and sportsmen are not allowed to perform, while
books, art, and plays sympathetic to Israel are shut out or shut down
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Use of
the Law
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In the
1930s special Nazi laws introduced to both outlaw Jewish-owned businesses and
criminalise attempts by anybody else to work with them
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Special
EU and Arab laws introduced to outlaw Jewish-owned Israeli businesses and
criminalise attempts by anybody else to work with them
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Secondary
boycott tactics
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In Nazi
Germany Non-Jews visiting Jewish houses and businesses were publicly vilified
and threatened to be boycotted themselves if they did not cease their
interaction with Jews
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In
today’s West Non-Jews visiting the Jewish state and doing business with it
are publicly vilified and threatened to be boycotted themselves if they do
not cease their interaction with the Jewish state
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Labelling
and taxes
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The Nazis
forced Jews to wear the yellow star while Muslim countries have always forced
Jews to pay a ‘dhimmi’ tax
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The EU now
forces Israel to put a special label on goods produced by Jewish-owned businesses
(and only Jewish owned businesses) and also imposes additional taxes
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Typical
everyday behaviour
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Criticizing Jews for certain character traits
(such as meanness, aggressiveness, deviousness) that are actually more
prominent in other ethnic and religious groups
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Criticizing Jews for their genuinely good
character traits (such as intelligence and business acumen) as in ‘The Jews
use these traits to trick and steal from non-Jews’
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Criticizing the Jewish State for certain
character traits (such as meanness, aggressiveness, deviousness) that are
actually far more prominent in most other countries
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Criticizing the Jewish State for their genuinely good
character traits (such as intelligence and business acumen) as in ‘The Zionists
use these traits to trick and steal from the Arabs’
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Beliefs
about the Holocaust
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The
holocaust is exaggerated to gain sympathy for Israel. The only
real holocaust was committed by Zionists against the Palestinians
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The
holocaust is exaggerated to gain sympathy for Israel. The only
real holocaust was committed by Zionists against the Palestinians
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What
especially angers proponents
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Jews defending themselves from attack;
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Any Jewish success in science and culture
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The Jewish state defending itself from attack;
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Any Israeli success in science and culture
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What
they have never heard of or must never be mentioned
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The
total destruction of Jewish communities in Muslim lands after the
establishment of Israel
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The
total destruction of Jewish communities in Muslim lands after the
establishment of Israel
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About
the killing of Jews by Arab terrorists
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If it
really happens then the Jews must have had it coming to them
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If it
happens at all it is a natural reaction against Zionist crimes
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About
violence generally
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Jews
are legitimate targets for violence
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Zionist
Jews are legitimate targets for violence
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Who are
their heroes
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Hitler,
George Galloway, Saddam Hussein, Ahmedinejad and any other Muslim bigot you can
think of - because they “stood up
to the Jews”
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George
Galloway, Saddam Hussein, Ahmedinejad and any other Muslim bigot you can
think of – because they “stood up to the
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Mandatory
reading
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Protocols
of the Elder of Zion, anything by Gilad Atzmon
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Protocols
of the Elder of Zion, anything by Gilad Atzmon
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Popular
phrase
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“Jews
back to Palestine”
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“Jews
out of Palestine”
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What happens
if they ‘win’
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Millions
of Jews were killed in the Holocaust, but it did not help the Nazis in any
way at all
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Millions
of Jews will be killed, but it will not help the Palestinians in any way at
all
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What is
their current most hated thing in the whole world
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The
State of Israel
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The
State of Israel
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For an alternative spin on this see: Why anti-Zionism has nothing to do with antisemitism
*** I was told that the Streetwise organisation (whose website says that it "works nationally with Jewish schools and Community organisations, enhancing the personal safety and personal development of young Jewish people to support their safe, physical, and emotional wellbeing") had provided training at a Jewish school in London in which students were told that "anti-semitism was completely different to anti-Zionism". I now believe this was was a misunderstanding. After writing to Streetwise asking "In what way are you preparing Jewish students, for example, for the tsunami of hatred they will face when they go to University given that 100% of the hatred will be dressed up as anti-Zionism rather than what it really is?" I recieved the following response:
At Streetwise we use CST's antisemitic incidents and antisemitic discourse reports as the basis for discussing antisemitism, and the related and often overlapping problems of anti-Zionism and anti-Israel hate. The CST reports do not say that anti-Zionism is completely different to antisemitism; and this is not what was said in the session that you refer to.
I am very happy to put the record straight on this. I believe that Streetwise are providing an excellent and very important service for the Jewish community. I will be looking into the CST material.Our specific work with 6th formers includes an antisemitism campus-preparation session in partnership with CST. This highlights the types of antisemitic hate crimes that young Jewish people may face on campus, as well as how to respond and report such incidents to the relevant authorities.
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