The Jewish people suffered greatly during World War II and some six million were murdered in concentration camps. Also, antisemitism has been a historical blight across the world that continues to be a problem in some places that are homogenous. Antisemitism, like all racism, is disgusting and wrong because it dehumanizes people who have every right to exist.
I have nothing against any people, any race, or any religion, etc. so long as that group does not seek to take away another human's or group of human's (or my) right to exist freely. We can not deny, however, as a species, wiping each other out based on some feature of the "other", be it language, ethnicity, race, land ownership, etc. is what we humans excel at, historically and presently speaking.
My problem is only with individuals and groups of people who distort reality to dehumanize others, to remove rights, and to cause wars. The Jewish people are intelligent and compassionate people (as most people are) and they should never be judged for the actions of some Jews- just as no individual should ever be stereotyped based on the actions of others in any group.
Should I be judged, because I am partly of Italian decent, for the actions of the few in the Italian mafia? Not in the least. Does this mean anyone who criticizes the Italian government or Italian criminals is anti-Italian? Not in the slightest but this tendency in humans, to stereotype each other based on the worst elements in a group, is always going to be an issue we must face and surpass as a species lest it be our ultimate downfall.
In fact, many American Jews and Israeli Jews are at the forefront of the protest movement against wars of aggression and false-flag operation, though their efforts are often under-reported in the media or met with violence. I make these points because I see an unwarranted parallel between criticism of Israel and being labeled an antisemite. I think Israel has a right to exist freely and I also think Palestine has a right to exist freely as well. There are those on both sides who harden the hearts of their children and people in general towards seeing the others as evil and sub-human.
This is easy for humans to do, whether they are Irish and British, Iraqi and Iranian, American and Muslim, Serbian and Bosnian, Russian and Chechnyan, Indian and Pakistani, or Chinese and Tibetan. That there is this degree of animosity between Arabs and Jews is a result of governments, past conflcts, ongoing conflicts, and hard-line leaders on both sides that are unwilling to forgive, stop the bloodshed, and move towards reconcilliation.
The true villains of 9-11 are small numbers of high-ranking elements of the U.S. government (from a number of races, creeds, and ethnicities) and similar high-ranking and covert elements of the Israeli government, who both sought to demonize Arab Muslims, create a bogeyman (in Osama Bin Laden and others), create a group who is our never-ending enemy (Al Queda), and go to endless war in the Middle East, North Africa, and elsewhere that these regimes see fit.
Americans are largely unaware of these truths, but they are becoming more aware as time goes on and research is made available. This is not to say that there are not violent and intolerant Arabs or Muslims in the world but most people would simply like to live in peace and much of the western demonization of the Arab and Islamic people is based in propaganda and lies- just as demonization of Jews, Americans, or any other people, is based in distortion. Do the people of the world realize that most Americans have no control over (or even knowledge of) what the CIA or the Pentagon does? Most Americans are relatively clueless about the truth and they act based on the psychological operations that have been conducted against them.
Part of this plot involves taking away American's civil liberties and their Constitutionally guaranteed rights to privacy, free speech, etc. These Orwellian movements in the U.S. government to thwart "terrorists" is a ploy to group all dissenters and protesters as threats to the nation when the real threat to our nation is the powerful neoconservative regime that is entrenched within our executive, legislative, judicial, branches as well as our corporate, intelligence and military complex.
There is nothing antisemetic in saying "Israel has used false-flag terrorism against its enemies and against its allies, like the United States, in order to further its geopolitical ends". Why is this not anti-semetic? Because nothing in that preceeding quoted statement says anything about the Jewish people in general but only makes claims about the acts of the state of Israel, which acts according to the desires and wishes of a very small segment of the Jewish population.
Only a relatively small number of Jews in Israel have much, if any, control over what the state of Israel does militaristically or in terms of devious or murderous plots against enemies and allies alike. All nations have a right to defend themselves. No nations have the right to murder civillians in cold blood or to trick and decieve the world for wars of aggression.
I created this page in order to highlight the ways in which the false accusation of being antisemetic or anti-jewish have been used to cover up and whitewash the bad deeds (the sinking of the U.S.S. Liberty, Warcrimes against aide vessels, peaceful protesters maimed/killed, 9-11 connections and demolitions insertion to the WTC complex, etc.) that have been carried out by particular elements of the Jewish people and the state of Israel.
This is not to downplay the horrific events of World War II, where many Jews were executed under the Nazi regime in Germany and facts are not racist and neither is the bringing up of such facts. If this were a group of other people that had been oppressed, it would be no less true or important to point out historically.
Here is a free online movie that points out the crimes of the Jewish state, past and present, and also shows the degree to which Jewish infiltration of American policy and media has progressed.
Also, this page should be seen in the light of the fact that all people have had or do have negative elements and bad seeds within them. It is, however, important to point out that only the Jewish people have particular terms, namely the terms "antisemistism" or "antisemite", attached to particular racism against them whereas other peoples do not. There is, for example, no specific term for racism against blacks, whites, asians, or those of arab decent, although it should be pointed out that Arabs are a semetic people which makes all claims of antisemitism aimed at Arabs seem silly in truth.
I wish to separate criticism of Israel from criticism of all the Jewish people and I wish to point out that most Jews are compassionate, intelligent people who have every right to a homeland and every right that all people are afforded. But, these rights should not come at the expense or expenditure of the lives of other people.
There is a sentiment in the west that "all criticism of any Jew or Jewish group or Israel is anti-semetic". Well, in fact, there is a Jewish mafia-like banking cartel, there are some Jewish mobsters and murderers, theives like Bernie Madofff, and the state of Israel is basically directing American military and foreign policy for their gain all the while screaming that anyone who points this out is just a rabid anti-semite who hates Jews and would see them all back into the ovens.
The famous American journalist, Helen Thomas, was stripped of a career of awards and access to the highest power seats when she said a while ago, "The Jews need to get the hell out of Palestine." But, isn't this like saying "The Germans need to get the hell out of Poland" as they rolled east, with tanks, to take what they pleased from people who already lived there? The sentence, "The Americans need to get the hell out of Iraq" being uttered by an Iraqi doesn't seem to be too far off-base given 9-11 had nothing to do with Iraq and the fact that more than a million Iraqis have died since our invasion therein.
This is sheer nonsensical bullshit but people buy it, shut their eyes, their mouths, and let atrocities against the Arabs in Palestine and elsewhewere go on under the radar even though war crimes charges and events continue to pop up, by the U.N. and other groups, around Israeli actions. Israelis kill protesters.
Some will say that the Jewish people have been through so much, why can't you stop all this criticism of these subjugated and ostracized people who simply want a homeland. I have no problem with a state of Israel, but, like America, it was built where people already lived and thrived and both the Jewish colonizing of Israel and the European colonizing of America involved killing and moving a lot of "non-people" like Palestinians in the Israeli case, some 700,000 and, in the American case, millions of Natives who were all but exterminated in harsh moves and marches while being infected with new deadly diseases they had no immunity to.
If someone was at a trial for rape and said that he now rapes women so much because he himself was regularly raped as a child, we may feel a twinge of sympathy but no one in their right mind would say, "Alright Mr. Rapist, you're free to go and rape women all you want because what happened to you in the past certainly justifies it."
What happened to the Jews in Germany was a horrific nightmarish thing that resulted in many millions of deaths and I do not deny the seriousness of the problem of worldwide anti-semetism that could rise up at any time. I do not think it would be easy to be a minority that is so often and in so many places, considered a deviant and evil person because of who they happened to be born as.
No one chooses their race or place or birth or name. But, any people that tend to think themselves different and superior and who disdain acclimitization or assimilation into their nation's culture is always at risk of ostracism or, in some cases, they are at risk of becoming self-declaredly superior beings of a higher racial caliber- the Germans of past decades, the Japanese of past, and, yes, today in some circles, the Jews that are racist and nihilistic, feel they are both God's chosen people and that they are chosen to rule through manipulation and debt-slavery through world monetary control, domination of the precious jewel markets, the drug markets than traffic so heavily through Israel, and through using the world's most powerful country, the United States, like a stupid pawn in their game to take until they are satisfied by their wealth and land grabs.
But, this taking never ends and one of the most telling statistics in 2011 is that, amongst all developed nations on Earth, the greatest wealth disparity and problems of poverty exist in, guess where? Israel. They shit on their own people who are poor. This shows you who the leaders of the Jewish military state are looking out for- themselves and no one esle. They have no allegiance to their Jewish brothers and sisters but only to the power they can weild and the money they can make from doing the bidding of the monied interests who dominate Jewish affairs in the west and in Israel in general.
They jail peaceful dissenters. They ostracize or assasinate those who speak out. They actively use the race card and the events of world war two to justify their own campaign of holocaust and land usurpation against their Arab neighbors who, it must be said, also see the Jews as a people that should not exist. The Jews, though, with the backing of American military hardware, missiles, and even a good number of nukes, are poised, with our help since 9-11, to completely raze the Middle East for neoconservative geopolitical hegemony in the region.
Who does this really serve? Who do all the dual U.S.-Israeli citizens in our halls of government and at the heads of our alphabet soup intelligence and spy agencies, really serve? Who does Michael Chertoff's investment in body scanner companies while he fearmongers about fictional boogeymen, really serve? The powers of the IMF, the World Bank, Israel, and the neoconservative mafia-like element of Jewish conspirators and accomplices, like Larry Silverstein, who seek to demonize all critics and dissenters as racist Nazis. All this is not to mention that all Arabs, contrary to what many seem to believe, are also semetic.
It is not anti-semetic to say that some Jews, like many in the power structure of America and Israel, are rotten murdering war criminals who should be tried summarily. It is not anti-Italian to say that there is an Italian mafia full of dumb, brutal thugs who can't learn to read well enough to make a legitimate dollar. It is not anti-Russian to point out Putin's murderous assasinations and treachery against his own people when they dissented against him. It is not Anti-American to say the Pentagon was in on the 9-11 demolitions as most Americans had no clue this was the case because the security clearance level needed to know these things is probably only had by a handful of old nihilistic neocons like Cheney, Rumsfeld, Bushes, Kissinger, etc. who have no qualms about mass murder so long as it makes them richer and more powerful in the process. Halliburton did really well. Larry Silverstein did really well.
This is not to dismiss the murderous war crimes and crimes against humanity being carried out by intelligence agencies and special forces of the American, British, French, Russian, and Chinese governments. They all hurt their own people to blame "Them" that they wish to unjustly attack or kill off and then the people get behind these campaigns because they are brainwashed into thinking it was "They" who attacked us on 9-11 when it fact it was more "Us" who attacked "Us" in unison with our good friends from Israel who have been doing these kinds of things throughout their existence in events like the attack on the U.S.S. Liberty in order to frame an Arab nation, Egypt, and have the American military brunt come down where they want it and not where justice would dictate.