{"id":5489,"date":"2019-02-26T22:15:51","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T22:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/?p=5489"},"modified":"2019-02-27T20:24:48","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T20:24:48","slug":"antisemites-are-jew-haters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/?p=5489","title":{"rendered":"Antisemites Are Jew-Haters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The most peculiar thing about antisemitism (except for the concept itself which is frankly ridiculous) is the phrase itself. The words &#8220;Semitic&#8221; is in fact today used to refer to a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Semitic_languages\">group of languages<\/a> rather than a group of people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And that group of languages is used by a wide collection of different people &#8211; including Arabs, Maltese, and yes, Hebrew speaking Jews.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The phrase &#8220;antisemitic&#8221; was first coined by Jew-haters to make their hatred seem more normalised and scientific. Yet, the word has been normalised and accepted by their opponents &#8211; essentially letting the Jew-haters win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>According to Jonathan M. Hess, the term was originally used by its authors to &#8220;stress the radical difference between their own &#8216;antisemitism&#8217; and earlier forms of antagonism toward Jews and Judaism.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>It is not for me to dictate to anyone, but it seems to me that we should perhaps give these scum back their original names. Call a spade a spade, and a Jew-hater exactly what they are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"695\" height=\"463\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/really.zonky.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018-12-13-The-Edge-Of-The-D.jpg?resize=695%2C463&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/really.zonky.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018-12-13-The-Edge-Of-The-D.jpg?resize=1024%2C682&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/really.zonky.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018-12-13-The-Edge-Of-The-D.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/really.zonky.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018-12-13-The-Edge-Of-The-D.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/really.zonky.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018-12-13-The-Edge-Of-The-D.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 695px) 100vw, 695px\" \/><figcaption>The Edge Of The D (Curved Brick Wal)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most peculiar thing about antisemitism (except for the concept itself which is frankly ridiculous) is the phrase itself. The words &#8220;Semitic&#8221; is in fact today used to refer to a group of languages rather than a group of people. And that group of languages is used by a wide collection of different people &#8211; <a href='https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/?p=5489' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[1842],"class_list":["post-5489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-antisemetic","category-3-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1f2KI-1qx","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5489"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5492,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5489\/revisions\/5492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}