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I have long felt that a philosemitism that is based on sympathy for Jews as martyrs and victims is in fact no philosemitism at all.
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John, I'm under no illusions regarding some of Albion's perfidy, but there's been a great deal of philosemitism in this country that isn't often acknowledged - as well as W. D.Rubinstein's book "The Myth of Rescue" I recommend his other book, "Philosemitism", which traces the symapathy and admiration for Jews by various British elite figures (and others) between 1940-1939.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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But perhaps a philosemitism based exclusively on the image of Jew-as-victim and not on any more positive precept is inevitably on shaky foundations.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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Aside from the conversionist goal, philosemitism has other issues, not least of them its affiliations with anti-Catholic politics it's not a coincidence, for example, that evangelical Protestants made hay out of the Edgardo Mortara case.2 Nevertheless, reading a philosemitic novel is not the same thing as reading an antisemitic one--as an afternoon with Anna Clay Beecher's Gwendolen.
Religion 2009
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I wish philosemitism such as his would be kept in mind by people who hasten to paint this country as a hive of antisemitism.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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It was not, therefore, philosemitism in any true sense.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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But perhaps a philosemitism based exclusively on the image of Jew-as-victim and not on any more positive precept is inevitably on shaky foundations.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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I have long felt that a philosemitism that is based on sympathy for Jews as martyrs and victims is in fact no philosemitism at all.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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Underlining the obvious and cynical political calculations behind deWinter's philosemitism, Vlaams Belang has joined a coalition in the European Parliament that's bursting at the seams with anti-Semites and Holocaust deniers, including the party of Mussolini's grand-daughter and the openly anti-Semitic parties Ataka a Bulgarian formation and the Greater Romanian party.
Archive 2007-09-01 2007
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Underlining the obvious and cynical political calculations behind deWinter's philosemitism, Vlaams Belang has joined a coalition in the European Parliament that's bursting at the seams with anti-Semites and Holocaust deniers, including the party of Mussolini's grand-daughter and the openly anti-Semitic parties Ataka a Bulgarian formation and the Greater Romanian party.
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