arabs are semites as well as jews, so pro-palestinian groups are hardly going to be anti-semites, are they? back to the drawing board with that one, i suggest.

The following letter in Saturday's "Guardian" (under a "everybody hates us Jews" whine from Arnold Wesker) may prove instructive :

"The EU report (Leaked report shows rise in anti-semitism, December 4) was not published because it was considered to be incompetent, not distinguishing sufficiently between Israelis and Jews. It seems that a massive effort is being made to confuse these positions in the European mind, so that criticism of Israel is met with the claim that such criticism is motivated by anti-semitism. We have seen this tactic work successfully in the US. British media must ensure it does not succeed here.
Christopher Leadbeater
Witney, Oxon"

Original at  http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,1101183,00.html

If you (or Mr. Leadbeater) had read any of the report, you would have realised it consistently distinguishes between Jews and Israelis. It also points out incidents where supposedly 'anti-Israeli' protests have deliberately conflated the two, leading to seriously Judeophobic slurs.

As for 'anti-semites' being an invalid term, I agree. Judeophobia or simply Jew hatred are more accurate terms.

"Some people may be surprised by the EUMC report's conclusion that “anti-Semitic activities” are now being perpetrated as much by those on the far left of the political spectrum as by those on the far right."

Surprised? some of us having been saying this for ages. The Left has long since sold its hypocritical soul to neo-Nazis and Islamic terrorists.

The Left needs to wake up and drag its ass out of the gutter it has crawled in to.

1) leftist groups don't understand the difference between Israel and Judaism?

2) that some of them have been brainwashed into following the neo-nazi and Islamic extremist position that all Jews are subhuman, 'the sons of monkeys and pigs' - (c) Mein Kampf / the Koran, (Surah 5:60)?

"Mein Kampf / the Koran"?!!! After grossly misquoting the Koran you associate it with nazi bullshit? Cheeky godless zionist land stealing baby killing scum.

I understand the difference between Judaism and "israel" - the former is a peaceful religion, followers of which are known as "people of the book" in the Koran and are respected. The latter ("zionism") is a racist ideology based on racial supremacy. The theft of Palestine is nothing to do with real Jews - these land-worshiping zionists who have abandoned the Torah and God, and collaborated with the Nazis (eg.  http://www.counterpunch.org/brenner1223.html ) are waging a brutal race war against the Palestinians who have been living there for centuries. Don't beleive me - listen to these Jewish folk ...  http://www.jewsNOTzionists.org or  http://www.nkUSA.org.

Zionists - "israel" is your modern false idol, as the golden calf was in the past. Forget your racist Nazi zionist dreams - free Palestine and let the real Jews live in peace.


From the "CounterPunch" link above:

"In 1983, Croom Helm Ltd. published my 1st book, Zionism in the Age of the Dictators. American writers don't expect favorable reviews from the London Times, but editorialist Edward Mortimer declared that "Brenner is able to cite numerous cases where Zionists collaborated with anti-Semitic regimes, including Hitler's.""

"Still less could a Trotskyist dream of a review from Izvestia, the Soviet government gazette, but they hailed it. "During the world war, Brenner points out, Zionism showed its real meaning: for the sake of its ambitions, it sacrificed the blood of millions of Jews.""

Do you rightists never wonder whether hating Islam and Muslims could perhaps be a teeny bit racist? You don't think your claims to be heroic anti-racists fall a bit flat when followed up by a stream of bile against all Arabs?

Palestine Solidarity Campaign:
 http://www.palestinecampaign.org

It is because left wing groups are stupid. They critise Israel while ignoring rogue states like Iran, Suadi Arabia, China and North Korea. Those countrys' regimes are far, far worse than Israel.

Yes, we've all seen how you right-wingers deal with "rogue states" like Saudi Arabia and China.

You sell them torture equipment, and weapons, and loads more. In the case of Saudi, you station troops there and prop up one of the most evil dicatorships on earth. You grant them Most Favoured Nation trading status, and suck on them as long and hard as you can, as long as there's money to be made there. Same as you did with Iraq. US and Britain voted against condemning Iraq in the UN back when Saddam nerve-gassed 5,000 Kurds in Halabja, because he was your rent-boy back then, wasn't he. Then as soon as he got a bit disobedient, suddenly Iraq was a "rogue state" too.

Think anyone believes that shit anymore, O Voice of The Majority Down at His Pub?