Here is Jack Kemps take on a few other things purged from your memories.. France should be particularly sensitive to any hint that anti-Semitism lives on in the Fifth Republic, given its complicity in Nazi atrocities against the Jews, as should the peoples of other European nations that were complicit in the Holocaust. Yet the silence is deafening. It's disappointing that the commissioner used his good offices to vent against Will and Americans rather than take a firm moral stance against anti-Semitism in Europe. Far from fulfilling the United Nations mandate in Palestine from 1945 to 1948 under the threat of Israeli terrorism. England continued to turn the mandate on its head. From the 1920s onward, not only did Britain abrogate its responsibility under the League of Nations mandate to "facilitate" Jewish immigration into the Jewish National Homeland, it systematically allowed millions of Jews to be dispossessed by drastically limiting Jewish immigration. In 1922, Britain egregiously violated international law by giving away Transjordan to the Arabs. It was not Britain's to give away, and contrary to popular misconception was not settled by Arabs exclusively or even widely. Over the next 25 years, Britain stood by while sporadic Arab pogroms and pillage ethnically cleansed Transjordan, Judea and Sumaria of Jews. On top of that, Britain allowed an explosive cauldron of hatred to brew as it turned a blind eye to massive illegal Arab immigration into formally settled Jewish lands. In 1948, when those same recent Arab immigrants fled the invasion of Israel by their Arab brothers, a false impression was created that it was Arabs, not the Jews, who were the displaced people. European anti-Semitism is real, but today it has become politically correct in some quarters because this time around it rests on more cleverly drawn myths about the state of Israel rather than crudely drawn myths about "the Jew" and making Europe "Juden-free." It is time European leaders, both in the church and in government as well as people on the street, take a stand against anti-Semitism. As Elie Wiesel, chronicler of the Holocaust, said, "Indifference to evil is evil." Or to paraphrase President George W. Bush, those who do not stand against anti-Semitism stand complicit to it.
from the dictionary: Judaism: 4. The Jews considered as a people or community. Jew: 2. A member of the widely dispersed people originally descended from the ancient Hebrews and sharing an ethnic heritage based on Judaism. Somewhat debatable point, eh?
Not at all. Jews practice the religion known as Judaism. It has nothing to do with race. Jews, like Christians and Muslims, come from all over the globe and encompass all races and ethnicities.
