The title of this thread = the full quote of the entire definition of "anti-Semite" in the current Merriam-Webster dictionary online:
Definition of anti-Semite
: someone who hates Jewish people
TWebber elam has accused me twice of being antisemitic on the basis of an archaic definition of the term; however, the definition he prefers is not the current sense of the word as commonly used and understood, nor as defined above in the current Merriam-Webster dictionary online.
I have apologized to elam for suggesting that he has an anti-semitic obsession re Israelis, and I am not now withdrawing my apology ― I prefer to discuss the matter sans name calling.
It seems to me that elam "doth protest too much". The more he seeks to justify himself in his thread about the Israeli-Palestine Conflict, the more it seems to me that he is deeply prejudiced against the Israeli Jews and prejudiced in favor of the Palestinians, whose governmental charter calls for the total destruction of modern Israel. The map of the Holy Land used by the Palestinians does not include any vestige of Israel.
elam holds a grudge against Israel for the sins he sees in its past, but he overlooks the present ongoing terrorism to which the Palestinian governments (that of Hamas and that of Mahmoud Abbas) are fully devoted in the present and committed for the future.
It is enlightening to compare the curriculua of Israeli schools for children with that of Palestinian schools for children...
I wonder how our fellow TWebbers see this difference of opinion.
Definition of anti-Semite
: someone who hates Jewish people
TWebber elam has accused me twice of being antisemitic on the basis of an archaic definition of the term; however, the definition he prefers is not the current sense of the word as commonly used and understood, nor as defined above in the current Merriam-Webster dictionary online.
I have apologized to elam for suggesting that he has an anti-semitic obsession re Israelis, and I am not now withdrawing my apology ― I prefer to discuss the matter sans name calling.
It seems to me that elam "doth protest too much". The more he seeks to justify himself in his thread about the Israeli-Palestine Conflict, the more it seems to me that he is deeply prejudiced against the Israeli Jews and prejudiced in favor of the Palestinians, whose governmental charter calls for the total destruction of modern Israel. The map of the Holy Land used by the Palestinians does not include any vestige of Israel.
elam holds a grudge against Israel for the sins he sees in its past, but he overlooks the present ongoing terrorism to which the Palestinian governments (that of Hamas and that of Mahmoud Abbas) are fully devoted in the present and committed for the future.
It is enlightening to compare the curriculua of Israeli schools for children with that of Palestinian schools for children...
I wonder how our fellow TWebbers see this difference of opinion.
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