Is blatant anti-Semitism rampant here at DU?

[MADem]

230. Two things--I invite your attention to the LINKS at Wikipedia, which are scholarly and

just fine and dandy, and second, I really think you are protesting too much.

What you are doing is the equivalent of insisting that water is not wet.

YAHOO ANSWERS is not an "alternative" to Wikipedia. It is a site populated by trolls and teen moms, and no citations are provided. The garbage you just posted was precisely that--garbage. It has no place at DU. I urge you to consider deletion.

That term has NOTHING to do what is happening in Gaza (I don't think anyone "approves" of the slaughter of innocent civilians), it predates it by more than a century. I simply do not believe that your "Jewish professor" was so ignorant of history that he was unaware of this, so my only conclusion coming from a positive POV can be that you must have misheard what he said, because surely you would not want to use his name to shade your argument--without any links, I notice (while you disparage me for my Wikipedia and ADL sources--with footnotes to the documented claims?).

Why don't you dig your hole even deeper, and tell us that the Encyclopedia Britannica is a shit source, as well?

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/27646/anti-Semitism

anti-Semitism, hostility toward or discrimination against Jews as a religious or racial group. The term anti-Semitism was coined in 1879 by the German agitator Wilhelm Marr to designate the anti-Jewish campaigns under way in central Europe at that time. Although the term now has wide currency, it is a misnomer, since it implies a discrimination against all Semites. Arabs and other peoples are also Semites, and yet they are not the targets of anti-Semitism as it is usually understood. The term is especially inappropriate as a label for the anti-Jewish prejudices, statements, or actions of Arabs or other Semites. Nazi anti-Semitism, which culminated in the Holocaust, had a racist dimension in that it targeted Jews because of their supposed biological characteristics—even those who had themselves converted to other religions or whose parents were converts. This variety of anti-Jewish racism dates only to the emergence of so-called “scientific racism” in the 19th century and is different in nature from earlier anti-Jewish prejudices. ...

Last time I checked 1879 was a hundred years earlier than 1969. Either you were inattentive at your lectures, or your professor was ignorant of history.