Anti-Semitism? Anti-Semitism *today* ? All in all, yes. Everybody is scared of...
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Are you saying Anti-Semitism is an Israeli invention? A Jewish invention? Uri Avneri:
Anti-Semitism? Anti-Semitism *today* ? All in all, yes. Everybody is scared of Anti-Semitism because of its history and Jews have always been terrified. In America, where Jews are so strong and influential, they are scared of their own shadows. Every moment, behind every tree, an anti-Semite hides. Bullshit! There is nothing like that. Anti-Arabs, anti-Muslims, anti-Black, anti whatever you like, yes. Anti-Semites? You'd need a magnifying glass to find them. And there are people who are walking around with this magnifying glass, like Sherlock Holmes, to find anti-Semites
Are you saying Anti-Semitism is an Israeli invention? A Jewish invention? Uri Avneri:
Anti-Semitism? Anti-Semitism *today* ? All in all, yes. Everybody is scared of Anti-Semitism because of its history and Jews have always been terrified. In America, where Jews are so strong and influential, they are scared of their own shadows. Every moment, behind every tree, an anti-Semite hides. Bullshit! There is nothing like that. Anti-Arabs, anti-Muslims, anti-Black, anti whatever you like, yes. Anti-Semites? You'd need a magnifying glass to find them. And there are people who are walking around with this magnifying glass, like Sherlock Holmes, to find anti-Semites
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or is anti Semite in heart
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or that I'm doing it only because of anti Semitism
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If five crimes happen
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five blacks against five Jews
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it has to be anti Semitism
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Why
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Listen even if the reason why I hit that Jewish kid
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is because I knew that he's not gonna fight back
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or the white woman in this neighborhood
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who's a Jewish woman
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I stole her pocketbook 'cause they know
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it's gonna be easy prey
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That's not called anti Semitism
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Movie Summary
Intent on shaking up the ultimate 'sacred cow' for Jews, Israeli director Yoav Shamir embarks on a provocative - and at times irreverent - quest to answer the question, "What is anti-Semitism today?"
