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Khamenei, Waters top 2013 anti-Semites list
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Published: 31.12.13, 10:02
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1. "Criticism of Israel is not antisemitism" in 3,2,1...
Tahl   (12.31.13)
Although this is a popular line by the Israel-haters today, all of the people on this list have engaged in obsessive pontification against Israel while ignoring much worse atrocities around the world. And this blatant double-standard can only be attributed to the ease by which Jews can be scapegoated.
2. Homophobic slurs reach new levels in Israel
Hayley   (12.31.13)
by the very same hypocrits that shout "antisemitism" . Homophobia kills yet religious leaders in Israel encourage such actions against gay people who do not share their so called religious mind set.
3. Tahl, no 1 I couldn't care less
Non Jewish immigrant ,   Haifa   (12.31.13)
If you think that criticizing Israel is antisemitism then be it. I couldn't care less that you and your ilk would see me as an antisemitic person. I personally know that there's a difference between the two. The fact that you refuse to see it is your problem. If criticizing Israel is being antiemetic then all my Jewish friends are antisemitic too (sic). So I'll keep criticizing Israel and other countries without your consentments
4. True
Gallula ,   Paris   (12.31.13)
As French Jew I can confirm that on a daily basis, there is no more refrain actions and words towards the community. We assist on a Israel and Judaism bashing. Why? Europe lost 6millions of ours and won 20 millions of Muslims. They are active and penetrate the society and feel free to deliver a nasty message. We are really no more comfortable and we'll consider to make our aliyah as it will get worse and worse....
5. Roger Waters should be #1
k ,   US   (12.31.13)
I think he is the most influential person, since in the "west" he is seen as a hero cuz Pink Floyd is a respected band, Roger Waters is the #1 enemy of the Jews and the Israelis, because he is going to allow the Jews and the Israelis to be killed by siding with the Islamists in this conflict
6. The eternal moaners are at it again
Chutia ,   New Delhi, India   (12.31.13)
Get a life and move on beyond your pet peeve - anti-semitism. It won't win you any more reparations than what you have already got.
7. non jewish immigrant
A V ,   london uk   (12.31.13)
you dont like here ,GO HOME OK
8. #6….
Sam ,   NY, USA   (12.31.13)
Why are you on this site? Don't you worry about what we do. You live in India - you have enough problems to worry about rather than whether Jews don't like being hated.
9. Waters I challenge you !!!!!!!
simon ,   uk   (12.31.13)
mount a legal case against this and prove you are not an anti-Semite if you dare !!!!!!!!!
10. #3: The Rev Martin Luther King:
Jim Yakamoto ,   Israel   (12.31.13)
"When people criticize Zionists, they mean Jews. You're talking anti-Semitism," As you say, you a re "Non-Jewish Immigrant" so you know nothing first hand about Antisemitism, persecution of Jews, Pogroms, Expulsions and the Final Solution just because they are Jews. If you hate Israel so much, why do you live here? Maybe you should go to Palestine, Syria or Iran and be among your friends. Israel is a democracy, although sometimes we do question that when we here the hatred and garbage that comes out of the mouths of MK's like Regev, Levin, Elkins and our version of the British National Front, Otzmat Israel which is just fascist as Golden Dawn in Greece, but the fact that you do have the right to speak your mind certainly illustrates the difference between Israel and much of the Muslim World. No, Israel is NOT Utopia but it is the home of the Jewish people and of those non-Jews who want to live here because they believe that Jews have a right to be here. With all Israels faults, and there are many, Israel is all that stands between the Jews of the world and Holocaust II which is what Antisemites like you, by your own admission, would love to see!
11. #6 Chutia: Maybe Indians should stop whining about .....
David ,   Israel   (12.31.13)
what the British did and extend a hand of friendship to Pakistan! Then all the people of India can convert to Islam and live under Sharia Law! Wow all those beautiful Indian women, some the victims of rape on a daily basis, with no rights at all and living under a burkha! What a shame.
12. #3
Linichka ,   Gdynia, Poland   (12.31.13)
Go back to the Third World shithole from which you originated. Israel doesn't need you. It's got enough deluded "beautiful souls" like you in Haifa and Tel Aviv.
13. Do the winners get some kind of trophy?
Jacob E ,   Holon, Israel   (12.31.13)
Like a big golden Mel Gibson holding a swastica
14. The top of the list is definitely Yair Lapid
Everyone ,   Agrees   (12.31.13)
followed by Israel secular leftists.
15. And this is why people don't take antisemitism serious
Jay ,   New York USA   (12.31.13)
anymore. Lists like these too easily collapse criticism of Israel as anti antisemitism. The fact that the ASA is lumped together with Khamenei shows how idiotic this list is.
16. oybama belongs on this list of anti-semites.
debra ,   usa   (12.31.13)
17. judaism and sionism and antisemitism
michel ,   Ashkelon   (12.31.13)
Most antisemites today hide behin a crtitisism of sionism.They must think people is stupid. In the past a great man said who says sionism think jews.It was Martin Luther King .
18. if critisizm of
anton ,   istanbul   (12.31.13)
israel is being anti semite then thre is no harm in it i couldnt see my name on the list so dissappointing :) happy new year to all of you, sarah b included :)
19. I've got an idea
Scarborough1414 ,   Scarborough, ON, CAN   (12.31.13)
There is a depressingly long list of celebrities who have supported or espoused anti-Semitic or self-hating-Jewish causes. Printing this list along with the offender's slur will inform the reader on who to support and who to boycott. A few examples: British actress Emma Thompson signed a petition against "Israeli apartheid"; Annie Lennox (once married to an Israeli and has half-Israeli children) has publicly said she won't perform in Israel; American actor Mandy Patinkin signed a petition against performing at the Ariel theatre in Ariel because the town is over the "green line" (self-hating Jew, or at least disloyal); I could go on and on. Sadly, the list is practically endless. A shorter list of our celebrity friends could be published too, those who have performed in Israel and who stand by us, both Jew and Gentile alike. Happy civic New Year.
20. to #6 India was formed in the same way as
lili   (12.31.13)
Israel, in same year 1947, I don't think you should judge Israelies, the british did too us great wrong, and by Roger aproach not much changed.
21. to #3 let me tell you about critisism
ghostq   (12.31.13)
making critisism on all the leaders left and right Israeli's parliament members is antisemitism, something that doesn't go right with legit criticizm but personal vandetas, big difference between criticism and accusations. And some jews, I have noticed, will denay their own right to exist based on socialist idiology, they probably short step from the mental ward.
22. Chicken and Egg, one is racism, other, legitimate criticism
Steve Benassi ,   Silver Bay, MN USA   (12.31.13)
23. #8 you're not in Israel either.
Rau   (12.31.13)
24. Howzabout the Red Plaid Pajama Boy?
Gideon Reader   (12.31.13)
Adon Krupp the metro sexual forever child of the horn rims and hot chocolate ObamaCare Propaganda fame is noted for his anti-Israel & anti Jewish themes. At least dis-honorable mention.
25. What about Israel
Ron ,   London   (12.31.13)
Israel is trying to force Orthodox Jews to serve in the army which they say is against their religion. Is that not a form of anti-Semitism?
26. Giv us a break
Jew Jew ,   Tel Aviv   (12.31.13)
Criticizing Israel IS criticizing antisemitism. Who's criticized - the Christians? The Muslims? You can keep criticizing Israel and lie to yourself, not to us, because we know you for what you are.
27. Where do you get your ideas?
#2   (12.31.13)
Took the wrong pill today? Israel is the capital of gay people and you don't belong here.
28. anti-Semites list
marijke ,   holland   (12.31.13)
what is Anti-Semites list ???
29. Here's a challenge
sharpshin ,   usa   (12.31.13)
If hate speech about Jews is to be condemned, so is hate speech BY Jews. Isn't that right? I'll wait while someone speaks up about the daily incitement against Arabs/Muslims on these boards, including calls to kill, expel and punish them for being inconveniently there.
30. To: No. 29
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (12.31.13)
Think of it in much the same way Americans called for death to Germans and Japanese during World War II. Even before the United States entered the war, German U-Boats were sinking American merchant vessels. The Americans celebrated the fire bombing of Tokyo -- which killed over 100,000 civilians -- as well. And need I remind you of the ruthless devastation and destruction of the carpet bombing of Germany which took several million civilian lives? "Daily incitement," you say? Since its rebirth in 1947, Israel has had to cope with Arab violence and Arab terror. Israel has had to endure six wars, all of which were started by the Arabs and in which Israel emerged victorious. Israel has had to endure far more than Americans endured during World War II; we have endured far more than NATO members endured against Iraq and Afghanistan, but that did not stop NATO from racking up over two million civilian deaths in Afghanistan and Iraq. Do not dare to presume to tell us how to feel or how to think until you have walked a mile in our shoes.
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