 | | 04-11-2004, 02:26 PM |
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Originally posted by elisheva:
<STRONG>A benign comment about Jews? Benign? What is "benign" about saying that Jews stayed home on 9/11 because they knew the attack would happen? It's a hateful and malevolent thing to say. (Clarification -- Im not saying that *Ledi* said that; I'm saying that when people do say it, it's a horrible, malicious, destructive thing to say.)</STRONG>
| Exactly. The crazed anti-Semitic myth that the Jews were somehow behind 911 is that and nothing but that. It's blatant anti-Semitism of a kind with the sort of anti-Semitic myths that have led to the massacre of multitudes of Jews down through the ages. I find it truly shocking that anybody could try to claim otherwise.
It is evident that Ledi did not know that the rumor she was repeating referred to Jews. She said she was just told "people", not "Jews". As such, it is clear she meant nothing anti-Semitic by what she said. However, the myth that rumor is based on is very much anti-Semitic and there is no way it could reasonably be claimed otherwise.
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