From: JNugent73@mail.com 
  
 On 08/08/2025 05:45 PM, billy bookcase wrote: 
 > "Max Demian"  wrote in message 
 > news:1074t4b$no99$1@dont-email.me... 
 >> On 07/08/2025 21:24, billy bookcase wrote: 
 >>> "Jeff Gaines"  wrote in message 
 >>> news:xn0p99pwb94sjja00z@news.individual.net... 
 >>> 
 >>>> If we do have that then what is the equivalent of antisemitism for Arabs 
 or Scots or 
 >>>> Methodists? I think we are talking about race with antisemitism not 
 religion as I 
 >>>> mistakenly thought. 
 >>> 
 >>> People who just hate Jews aren't fussy. 
 >>> 
 >>> It really is as simple as that. 
 >>> 
 >>> There is unimpeachable historical evidence of people persecuting 
 >>> and latterly murdering large numbers of Jews going back over 
 >>> 1000 years. 
 >>> 
 >>> Unlike any other group of people. 
 >> 
 >> No, Jews are just "special", for some reason. 
 > 
 > Yes as I just said; they've been persecuted for at least the last 1000 
 years 
 > 
 >>   I can understand Germans with their "war guilt", but we've got noting to 
 >> be ashamed of, 
 > 
 > So you're saying that Jews were never persecuted in Britain ? 
 > 
 > And that it wasn't a British Foreign Secretary, Arthur Balfour who 
 > issued a Statement on behalf of the British Government in 1917, 
 > announcing its support for the establishment of a "National Home 
 > for the Jewish people"in Palestine, 
 > 
 > Which is basically what helped kicked the whole thing off 30 years years 
 > later; when Britain was still administering Palestine 
 > 
 > 
 >   > unlike 
 >> Israelis/Zionists and their supporters/apologists in every synagogue world 
 wide. 
 > 
 > What exactly has any of that got to do with anti-semitism ? 
 > 
 > And the fact that Jews have been persecuted  for over the last 1000 years ? 
 > 
 > And an easy target in their role as being Gods Chosen People for every 
 > Country or individual who simply can't face up to the fact that they've 
 > been abject failures in life*; and so are thrashing around for somebody 
 > else to blame. 
 > 
 > In a word Anti-Semites 
 > 
 > 
 > bb 
 > 
 > * In The Franco Prussian War of 1871, started by France, the Germans had 
 > surrounded Paris within two months. In 1914 they thought they could repeat 
 > the trick, but came badly unstuck. Which as it then turned out, had 
 > all been the fault of the Jews all along. 
  
 For once, I'm impressed. 
  
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