I have come to believe that no matter what proven facts and/or mean tested historical information or corraborated current news you present to any type of crowds with different levels of anti-jewish feelings that all these would not matter. For them these do not count or do not meet their criteria. That’s why I was puzzled about the idea that it is imcumbent on jews to understand the problem first. I beleive that it was already understood as “there is nothing to undertand”. As Annie pointed out, it is quite impossible to undertand it, because anti-semitism does not lend to rational explanations.

The case in point that I hear most is the infamous claim of the apparent difference that exist between being an anti-jewish and anti-zionist. Yet when you hear them expanding on this difference, the old diatribes of the classic East European anti-semitism emerge. All discourses of “discontent” (which are mostly political) about the current practices of Jewish people (Mostly the state of Israel) reverberate one of the ultimate focal point which the very nature of the “jew” or jewish personality (as if it has something beyond comprehension). This is what I have come to beleive to be the irrational focus of jew haters regardless of their level of anti-semitism. All discourses seem to lead to this point, although they start with some pretty “fair” political arguments.

I think it was Bernard Lewis who said that in modern secular european culture “jew hating” needed a scientific explanation instead of the the old backward religious obscurantist claims of deicide and blood ritual. That’s why the nazis used the racial argument of genetic inferiority to their favor and by that lead armies of people to beleive in it. It looks like nowadays that these racial arguments coupled with the old religious as well as the political ones (world domination i.e., the protocols of the elders of Zion) are still without a doubt popular among many crowds.

The fact that all these claims (religious, racial, political) are indiscriminantly and inseparably used at the whims of the illeterate arab crowds and even some educated individuals. A jewish person or sympathiser can, at least, try to fight one claim at a time, but with all claims coming at once, this proves that there is nothing to debate, because the debate becomes a dialogue of the “hearing impaired”. When the “protocols” is still the best seller among educated arabs and neo-nazi groups prove once again that there is nothing to fight this, because these same people who beleive this misinformation know that it is forgery. How can anyone argue with someone who knows that the protocols is a forgery and yet use it as a mean to advance their anti-jewish opinion. I rest my case. I however think that bloggers like this one and many other individuals like us could play a role in attesting our resolve to counter these claims and hope things do not get out of hands. And that’s all we can do…

Unfortunately I don’t see that anything we say or do has any effect in the main. The Israel haters and antisemites do not allow themselves to be confused by facts.

It’s so easy for our enemies who greatly outnumber us to just keep slinging mud about, and much of this mud has stuck, constantly repeating key words has done the trick.

Palestinian – Now the identity theft is complete, who now would associate a Jew and a Palestinian as being the same, yet before 1948 the majority of the original British named “Palestinians” were Jews.

Occupation – the favourite word in the vocabulary of our enemies, or for good measure “illegitimate or illegal occupation” spat out with venom in almost every sentence and conjuring up pictures in the minds eye of the listener of the Nazi occupation of Europe. “Occupied Palestinian areas” has now become the most common and accepted narrative to describe Judea and Samaria.

Israeli Apartheid – This word has not yet been totally accepted by the International community, but it is well on its way to becoming so – it’s still fairly new so they just need to keep on repeating it a bit more.

Child Killers – Always a favourite to try and win sympathy and demonise a people at the same time it is recycled from the “Gays are Paedophiles” concept.

And here’s one we gave to the world ourselves : Settler/Settlements – The Anti-Israel brigade are eternally grateful to us for assisting them in coining this phrase.

So, whilst our enemies use words highly effectively, we need to challenge and to demonstrate the bogus nature of them and at the same time expose how they so effectively deflect attention away from the human rights abuses and barbarism that they are guilty of.

As I said the problem is multifaceted and subjective and I have only mentioned the use of inflammatory language, there is much more – the perception of power, poor versus the perceived rich, educated versus uneducated, young versus older, perceived white skin versus darker skin, perceived settlers versus economic migrants, employed versus unemployed, protection versus intimidation, all come into play in the current climate of Anti-Israel feeling, and very little seems to be recognised much less addressed.

I think it is a fade and sort of herd mentality that is fashionable to be anti-jewish. It is like to be third worldist during the 1970′s and or leftist during the 1960′s. It has to do with power. This run deep despite facts that prove the contrary to what Israel has done since its inception. I keep telling people that Israel was created by the United Nations. The Isreali tanks did not roll over from the the hills of Judea to take the land from the Arabs and their absantee owners in Beyrouth in 1948. Partition was agreed to even by Russia, the first marxist power to align itself with the emerging nationalistic arab states. Ever since, things has not change. In fact, they have not change since the destruction of the second temple. It is just as it was, but more so now with media and communication technology.