dear laszlo,
Though the general definition of antisemitism is hostility or prejudice against Jews, a number of authorities have developed more formal definitions. Holocaust scholar and City University of New York professor Helen Fein defines it as "a persisting latent structure of hostile beliefs towards Jews as a collective manifested in individuals as attitudes, and in culture as myth, ideology, folklore and imagery, and in actions – social or legal discrimination, political mobilization against the Jews, and collective or state violence – which results in and/or is designed to distance, displace, or destroy Jews as Jews."
Professor Dietz Bering of the University of Cologne further expanded on Professor Fein's definition by describing the structure of antisemitic beliefs. To antisemites, "Jews are not only partially but totally bad by nature, that is, their bad traits are incorrigible. Because of this bad nature: (1) Jews have to be seen not as individuals but as a collective. (2) Jews remain essentially alien in the surrounding societies. (3) Jews bring disaster on their 'host societies' or on the whole world, they are doing it secretly, therefore the antisemites feel obliged to unmask the conspiratorial, bad Jewish character."
Lazslo wrote:
You can dress it up as human rights-, or peace activism, but the fascistic usage conditions of the SW promotes hatred and racism. Don’t support it by using or advertising GlovePIE!
this is a quote from GlovePies TOS:
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* You may not export this software to Israel, or use it in Israel (including the occupied territories), until Israel has ended its occupation of the West Bank, Gaza Strip, Lebanon, Syria, and anywhere else it may occupy, or until Israel abolishes apartheid (granting all Jews and non-Jews in its territories equal rights). If you try to run it in Israel before then, it will give you an error.
Collective punishment
Human rights organizations and Palestinians claim that some measures claimed by the Israeli Defense Forces to be for security actually constitute undue collective punishment. These include offensive military measures which Israel asserts are targeted at terrorist personnel and facilities, and the significant reduction of electricity to Gaza.
In recent history, supporters of the Palestinians have used the term to label certain Israeli military actions in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and the Israeli policy of destroying homes of suicide bombers or terrorists responsible for Israeli deaths. Israel stopped using the practice, which dates from British Mandate times, in February 2005. The claim of collective punishment has also been extended to include Israel's extensive system of internal roadblocks and checkpoints in Palestinian land. Israel asserts these are needed to impede terrorist activities.
Many humanitarian organizations have criticized Israel's blockage of Gaza that intensified in January 2008 as a form of collective punishment illegal under the Geneva Conventions to which Israel is a party.[citation needed] The organizations include Amnesty International, Save the Children, Cafod, Care International and Christian Aid.[96] However, some argue the usage of the term "collective punishment" is only a "manipulation of the language of international law"[97] and it has been dismissed by some legal experts [98][99] and commentators [100].
if u are more concerned about Human Rights / Humanity, i'd say take a
look at their website about these issues. just if it concerns u that much this thing called human rights.
do you know what really concernes me? your very fast and ourageous use of the word FASCISM. guess what, i looked it up:
What constitutes a definition of fascism and fascist governments is a highly disputed subject that has proved complicated and contentious. Historians, political scientists, and other scholars have engaged in long and furious debates concerning the exact nature of fascism and its core tenets.
Most scholars agree that a "fascist regime" is foremost an authoritarian form of government, although not all authoritarian regimes are fascist. Authoritarianism is thus a defining characteristic, but most scholars will say that more distinguishing traits are needed to make an authoritarian regime fascist.
i guess, i am too dumb to see a commonness between this posts top quotes. if giving critics on something, some nation, or some religion makes one an AntiSomething/Nation/Religion being, then we live in a really sad world where nobody can state his opinion any more without being sued for this for the sake of political correctness. does it makes me being Anti-African when i say what happened back i say what has happened 1994 in Ruanda was simply wrong and should never have happened? compare this:
[url=http://www.cnn.com/EVENTS/1996/year.in.review/topten/hutu/history.html]CNN[/URL] wrote:
It exploded in 1994 with the civil war in Rwanda in which hundreds of thousands of Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed. Tutsi rebels won control, which sent a million Hutus, fearful of revenge, into Zaire and Tanzania. [/url]
or - wait - i must be anti american, cuz i am not only no friend of recent "we bring the democracy to the people" actions, but i also point at americas history of slavery, kidnapping, and peoples-slaughter . but hold - i also must be anti-german, since i say what has happened back in WWII was more than bad enough, but what happened afterwards in many little events such as
1972 in munich and how it was solved was really bad ...
hmmm ... when i think right, i also must be AntiCatholic - just remembering and finding those pages on Census-Resistent-TOR-Network. The websites vanished from internet, just because they tracked catholic priests who were sued for raping lil boys by court and found guilty, i also must be against so many other things, just because i see and read and actually happen to understand what wents wrong, so i am the to be called AntiPerson. Did i mention, that i am also against War, Sexism, gay whales whatsoever?
Laszlo, by criticising ... more by cropping someone's individual rights to express ones free will and opinion, you make yourself guilty in doing the same u critisize the person for ... and are no better.
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That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
With these words from
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776. i will close my lil thoughts about big issues.
regards,
derRaphael
ps: also a nice fit on topic:
FYI
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Israel
amnesty-international-accuses-israel-of-grave-human-rights-abuses (Report 2Qt/2008)
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