Israelis & Antisemitism

Whenever the Israelis wage war on Gaza and/or attack the occupied people in the West Bank, in East Jerusalem, and on the Al Aqsa compound, the claim of antisemitism emerges when they become criticized, and in response, somewhere in the world, Jews are targeted.

Now, let us look at the question of when you speak about antisemitism.

According to a definition in Wikipedia but altered by the Israeli Zionist group CAMERA, Antisemitism is hostility to, prejudice towards, or discrimination against Jews. This sentiment is a form of racism, and a person who harbours it is called an antisemite.

The Americans define it as prejudice against or hatred of Jews while also saying that criticism of "Israel" similar to that leveled against any other country cannot be regarded as antisemitic.

The view by the European Union is based on the non-binding IHRA definition, which defines it as follows:

Is this historical correct?

To find the answer, you have to go back to the biblical ages where there is an episode that is widely known and even distributed in the form of maps you just simply can find on Google.

The episode tells about Jews who fled Palestine when it it came under Roman control. They fled to Spain and from there into Central Europe and Eastern Europe. When they left Palestine something also "left" that is not known by the majority of people in the world. Only historians are aware of that but rarely mention it.

The United Nations uses a set of criteria to define whether a person is indigenous to the habitat where the person is. The formal definition is

"coming from a particular place and having lived there for a long time before other people came there".

But "coming from a particular place" can also be read as having left that place. So, the definition describes a situation of being no longer in that place. It is supposed to be this:

"being in a particular place and is living there before other people came.

In other words, you have been there from the beginning. 

But how does it fit when you are no longer in a particular place and have to settle elsewhere?

If one is born in a particular place, grow up in this place and continues to live in that place until end of life, we call it the person has build an historical continuity. It ends when the person leaves the place to settle elsewhere. 

When the person starts a family but elsewhere, the person's family can not be regarded as indigenous to the place where the person came from. They are native to the place where the family members are born.

This is also the case to the Jews who fled Palestine during the Roman ages. They lost the historical continuity for remaining being Semitic people despite that they brought their religion with them to Europe. 

And how to explain when Jews return to the land their very forefathers have left?

They remain Jews but are not Semitic people as it is about re-migration from Europe.

It is therefore complete misleading, if not misusing, when attacks on Jews in Europe, like recently in France on a Jewish woman, quickly is brandished as "antisemitism". It was an attack on a Jewish person, not on a Semitic person.

So, why is "antisemitism" constantly used?

It is an Israeli invention, not a Jewish invention. It is found mostly distributed by Zionist organizations, the country where the Palestinian problem is created in 1917 and countries who align with the Israelis without fact checking historical accuracy correctly.

When governments of the mentioned countries only listen (= following) to others who are not in their country, who are not part of their country, but interfere in what is the majority in their country, these governments represent the view that is from outside their country. It's these government who fuel that what everyone misleadingly calls "antisemitism".

Governments like those of French president Macron drive people to express their grievance in the wrong way what attacks on Jews are.