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To: Moominoid who wrote (19299)	5/26/2002 12:03:45 PM
From: smolejv@gmx.net	Respond to of 74559

An attitude question The new anti-Semitic catechism by Moshe Zimmermann() Two questions make many Germans helpless nowadays: Is our country actually inundated by a tide of the Anti-Semitism? Can’t we have critical opinions about Israel without automatically being accused of Anti-Semitism? One searches shyly for a clear border between legitimate criticism and Anti-Semitism, for a clear warning signal when the limits are being stepped over. … What actually is Anti-Semitism? It’s a term, coined in the year 1879 in Germany to replace the no longer fashionable term “Judenfeindschaft” (Jew-hate) or “Judenfresser" (Jews-eater). Anti-Semite is a person, who on the basis of prejudice views “the” Jews - as alleged race, nation, religious community or social group – in general in a negative light and draws from this conviction (in the case, that is relevant here), his social or political conclusions. Can an Arab be Anti-Semite? Yes. With the term “Anti-Semite” one wanted from the outset to attack only the Jews. An Arab and/or Muslim Anti-Semitism are thus impossible. In the Muslim tradition there is a hint of a pejorative attitude opposite Jews. But only since beginning of the Arab Zionist conflict the Near East Arabs availed themselves of anti-Semitic arguments and pictures, imported predominantly from Europe, quasi as a defence shield in the new, acute fight. This Arab Anti-Semitism found paradoxically its way back to Europe, where considerable Arab minorities live today. .... from SZ, Friday edition. See the rest at xave.de dj () The author teaches history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and is a director of the Richard Koeber center for German History