From: roger@hayter.org 
  
 On 8 Aug 2025 at 14:12:43 BST, "Max Demian"  wrote: 
  
 > 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. I can understand Germans 
 > with their "war guilt", but we've got noting to be ashamed of, unlike 
 > Israelis/Zionists and their supporters/apologists in every synagogue 
 > world wide. 
  
 We certainly have less to be ashamed of than the Nazis. But "nothing" is a 
 bit 
 of an overstatement. It might be valuable to remember some of the hatred and 
 violent disorder whipped up by fascists in the '30s and well into the post 
 war 
 period[1] against Jewish individuals and Jewish premises. If for no other 
 reason than to better understand the hatred and violence now being promoted 
 by 
 our more modern fascists against Muslims and immigrants in general. 
  
 [1] post war austerity was a fertile breeding ground for fascists blaming 
 "Jews" and their businesses for profiteering and depriving the workers of 
 their right to decent living standards. Familiar, or what? 
  
  
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