Jewish Anti-Gravity Tornado Warfare!

I have to hand it to my BFF Cesar for sending this my way. A man, deeply upset about the tearing down of a country club in Omaha, sent this letter to the Omaha Planning Board. It is, in a word, hilarious. And the image that someone made to go with it is even MORE hilarious, and I've included it in this post because I can't get over how ridiculous it is. With all of the bad, horrible, violent, and negative posts that exist out there in the Jewish blogosphere, this is a beacon of light ... on the ridiculousness of some people.

You can find the full letter here, but here is a bit of the text of it.

The public is tired of and angry about corrupt Jew-connected big business gangsters and business-as-usual porkbarrel payment of bribes to regime bureaucrats. (I find this hilarious because it puts corrupt Jews and porkbarrel together.) ...

Tall new buildings might be toppled or damaged by Jewish anti-gravity tornado warfare like that done against Omaha in June 2008 linked to the spelling of the name Obama and linked to eleven letters in the name Barack Obama. (Um, what? Why didn't I get the memo about this AWESOME anti-gravity tornado machine!?) ...

Oh, and then he blames the Jews' "electromagnetic secret weapon anti-gravity beam-intersection" for killing beloved Nebraska football quarterback Brooke Barringer (who actually died in a plane crash). He also, of course, denies the number of Jews killed in the Holocaust (get some fresh material!).

Oh it just makes me laugh. I had to share it. But mostly because I wanted to share a depiction of the big, bad Jewish tornado. Are you ready?

When will it end? At least this guy isn't threatening violence ...

Anti-Semitism vs. Antisemitism

Several years ago, I had the pleasure of hearing Christopher Browning talk at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln on Antisemitism and the origins of the Final Solution. Something he spent a long time talking about was the difference of Anti-Semitism and Antisemitism (subtle difference: hyphenation). Since then, I've forgotten what the difference was, but I've employed his philosophy off and on for years. Today in class, then, we were finalizing comments on the class (redundant, right, but the course is basically Medieval Christian and Jewish relations), and I thought about this concept. I brought it up to the class and the professor couldn't tell me the difference, so I had to look it up. The difference, I think, is subtle, but very important. Here's an article I found by the CFCA and also here (circa 1989) that I think explains it in a pretty clear fashion.

Let me know what you think -- is it worthwhile to differentiate with or without the hyphen?

What's in a Hyphen? by Shmuel Almog

A seemingly minor point crops up from time to time but grows in importance the more you reflect upon it. Should one write 'anti-Semitism' with a hypen or 'antisemitism' as one word?

What is the importance of such a technical question and why should anyone, apart from type-setters and proof-readers, worry about it?....

Let me start at the beginning: When did the word 'antisemitism' make its first appearance? It is generally attributed to Wilhelm Marr, who was called by the Israeli historian Moshe Zimmermann "The Patriarch of Antisemitism." Marr coined the term in the 1870s to distinguish betwee old-time Jew-hatred and modern, political, ethnic, or racial opposition to the Jews. This term made great advances and soon became common usage in many languages. So much so, that it applied not just to the modern brand of Jew-hatred but--against all logic--was attached to all kinds of enmity toward Jews, past and present. Thus we now say 'antisemitism', even when we talk about remote periods in the past, when one had no inkling of this modern usage. Purists no longer cry out in dismay against such anachronistic practice; it is currently established procedure to use 'antisemitism' for all types of Jew-hatred.

Let's go back to the hyphen then. What's the difference? If you use the hyphenated form, you consider the words 'Semitism', 'Semite', 'Semitic' as meaningful. They supposedly convey an image of a real substance, of a real group of people--the Semites, who are said to be a race. This is a misnomer: firstly, because 'semitic' or 'aryan' were originally language groups, not people; but mainly because in antisemitic parlance, 'Semites' really stands for Jews, just that.

And mind you, Jews are not a race at all. They do not all have inherent characteristics in common that may distinguish them from other people. What unites them is a tradition, culture, history , destiny maybe, but not genetics. If you do assume for a moment that Semites are a special race, consider also the implication that this so-called race comprises both Jews and Arabs. One often talks of the kinship between these two, who are now at loggerheads with each other. Be that as it may, antisemites talking against 'Semites' do not generally refer to Arabs; they mean Jews. So did the Nazis who killed the Jews and invited cooperation from the Arabs.

It is obvious then that 'anti-Semitism' is a non-term, because it is not directed against so-called 'Semitism'. If there is any substance to the term, it is only to denote a specifically anti-Jewish movement. Antisemitism is a generic term which signifies a singular attitude to a particular group of people. As the late philosopher Zvi Diesendruck pointed out, "There has never been coined a standing term for the merely negative attitude" to any other people in history. Only antisemitism; only against Jews.

So the hyphen, or rather its omission, conveys a message; if you hyphenate your 'anti-Semitism', you attach some credence to the very foundation on which the whole thing rests Strike out the hyphen and you will treat antisemitism for what it really is--a generic name for modern Jew-hatred which now embraces this phenomenon as a whole, past, present and--I am afraid--future as well.

Sticking it to the UN: Have You No Shame?

Hat tip to Jack for posting this up. I have to say, well put. He puts it perfectly.





"A mere six decades after the Holocaust, you give legitimacy to a man who denies the murder of six million Jews? While promising to wipe out the state of Israel? The state of the Jews? What a disgrace. What a mockery of the charter of the United Nations."