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Three Definitions of 'Anti-Semitism'

Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2013 11:46 pm
by John Flynn
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James Harting


There are three very different definitions of "anti-Semitism": the standard dictionary definition; the National Socialist definition; and the Jewish definition.
Before looking at these three contrasting definitions, one distraction needs to be disposed of: anti-Semitism, if it is to have any real meaning at all, refers only to Jews, and not to Arabs. I have met White Nationalists from time to time, who have told me that they are not anti-Semitic, because they have "nothing against the Arabs." Conversely, one prominent movement scholar told me that, "I am a true anti-Semite: I hate both Arabs and Jews equally."

While it is true that both Hebrew and Arabic are part of the Semitic language family, anti-Semitism does not refer to linguistics, but to race or ethnicity. No one is opposed to either Jews or Arabs based on the origin or structure of their indigenous languages: when we use the term "anti-Semitism," we are referring only and specifically to Jews.
Here, then, are three definitions of anti-Semitism:

(1) The standard dictionary definition of anti-Semitism is that it means hostility towards Jews. I have at hand the Tenth Edition of Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary. Here is the full definition:
"hostility toward or discrimination against Jews as a religious, ethnic, or racial group," (p. 52)
This is the definition that most non-Jews use.

(2) We National Socialists, however, have a more penetrating insight into the Jewish problem than do the editors down at Merriam Webster. Here is a basic and concise NS definition:
Anti-Semitism is the natural and normal defensive reaction of non-Jews to typical Jewish behavior.
This is by no means a complete or comprehensive definition, but it is accurate, from an NS standpoint, in so far as it goes.

(3) The Jews themselves, have a very different functional definition of what it means to be anti-Semitic (or anti-Jewish or anti-Zionist). For the Jews, anti-Semitism consists of opposition to Jewish goals.

Thus, for practical purposes, the Jews define anyone who opposes Jewish goals as a functional anti-Semite, whether that person actually dislikes the Jews or not.
By way of example, the Jews consider the National Rifle Association to be an anti-Semitic organization, not because it attacks the Jews (it does not), but because it opposes the Jewish goal of disarming white Americans. The fact that some Jews are NRA members is completely beside the point.

Or consider the case of the great American populist leader Huey P. Long (1893-1935). Long, a Democrat, served as US senator from Louisiana and as governor of that state. Although in his private beliefs he was undoubedtly a white racialist, as were all white Southerners of his day, he did not make racialism or anti-Semitism a part of his political approach. In fact, he was known as a racial moderate by the prevailing standards.

Nevertheless, he appealed primarily to white workers and farmers. His famous "Share the Wealth" program was similar in spirit to the social-economic programs of the National Socialists and Fascists in Europe. So although he did not criticize the Jews, they felt threatened by him, fearing that he represented the beginning of an American fascist upsurge. Further, some members of his staff were anti-Semitic (such as Rev. Gerald L. K. Smith), although Long himself was not. Long had aspirations to challenge the incumbent president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, known as a great friend of the Jews, in the 1936 presidential election.

But it was not to be: on September 8, 1935, Huey Long was shot to death in the rotunda of the Louisiana state capitol by a Jewish gunman, Carl Weiss. Another anti-Semitic threat nipped in the bud!

As paradoxical as it sounds, one can even be pro-Jewish, as in the case of many Christian evangelicals, and still be considered by the Jews as an anti-Semite, if one opposes Jewish goals. Indeed, the Jews reserve their deepest hatred for those who seek to convert them to Christianity, not because these missionaries hate the Jews, but because they love them so much!

Those who openly criticize the Jews fall into a special sub-category of anti-Semite: the Jews refer to such a critic as a "blatant anti-Semite," or, for someone whom they really, really fear, as a "Jew-hater." (Other adjectival intensifiers include: "vehement anti-Semite," "vitriolic anti-Semite," "virulent anti-Semite" and "violent anti-Semite.")

For the Jews, the opposite of an anti-Semite is a "righteous Gentile." This is a non-Jew who enthusiastically embraces putting Jewish interests and welfare before all else, including his own safety and prosperity, and even before that of his own kin.

For Jews, there are really only two categories of non-Jews: "anti-Semites" (those willing to say "no" to them on occasion); and "righteous goyim" (willing slaves).

So, in the eyes of the Jews, those are your only two choices: anti-Semite, or willing slave.
Which of the two are YOU?