Defamation - What is Anti-Semitism Today?

[Oxygen]

Yoav Shamirs film Defamation asks the question: What is Anti-Semitism Today? To answer this he contacts the ADL and with Abraham Foxmans blessing and in hes capacity of being a Jew he gets an honest and in-depth view of the inner makings of the holocaust industry. He also follows a class of school children in what only can be described as a pilgrimage to Poland where they among other places visits Auschwitz. Before and during this trip one gets to witness how the teens are prepared and convinced that they are targets of a completely irrational hatred to this day in Poland just for the fact that they are Jewish. We can see how this artificially created reality manifest it self when two of the Jewish girls talk to an old Polish man and become convinced that the man are insulting them with anti-semitic slurs. Shamir also talks to Norman Finkelstein witch gives at times a very humoristic interview especially hes view of Abe Foxman but he also have many interesting view points about Jewishness in the modern world and states the original definition of anti-semitism (an irrational hate of Jews solely because they are Jews) and denounces the neo definition of "new anti-semitism" witch could be described as: all and any criticism of Israel and/or Jewish interests.

This movie is a very honest and at the same time humiliating depiction of the so called international struggle against anti-semitism as it shows how inherited guilt is used as a tool of extortion in a very deliberate and cynical way to promote Jewish interests as well as personal gain. Simultaneously it creates a strong identity in the perceived victimization of the Jews them selves witch could be a plausible explanation for much of the fanatical, aggressive and completely uncritical support for Israel and what is perceived as Jewish interests. A very interesting detail is how this cult of victimization is creating an almost reflexive belittling of other groups suffering and justifies any type of infraction in the furtherance of Israel and Jewish interests as a form of preemptive necessity. In short, this is a fantastic film not only because it deconstructs the so called "new anti-semitism" but primarily because it gives an insight in the Jewish psyche.

Defamation
http://wideeyecinema.com/?p=7208

http://www.defamation-thefilm.eu/html/home_english.html

[KingOvGermania]

Have not seen it yet, but plan to soon! IT's very interesting!!

[Ocko]

As the bon mot goes:

In the past an antisemite was somebody who hated jews
today an antisemite is somebody the jews hate

[KingOvGermania]

As the bon mot goes:

In the past an antisemite was somebody who hated jews
today an antisemite is somebody the jews hate

That's totally true, espically in the case of the ADL
The ADL whines about "hate" and "Racism" every chance they get, yet they openly support the more hateful and racist country in the world: ISRAEL!!

[Oxygen]

The state owned Danish television channel DR2 stops the scheduled airing of the documentary Defamation. What makes this particular incident so amazing is not that western media, state owned or not suppress any and all criticism against so called Jewish interests if it where`nt for the fact that danish DR2 co-financed the project with 15000 euro of taxpayers money in the first place!

Arne Notkin program director of DR2 says he can not guarantee that the documentary be shown as it is problematic. Mr Notkin declines to elaborate on exactly what is so problematic about the documentary.

In a completely unrelated side note Arne Notkin him self is a member of the Mosaic congregation (Mosaiska trossamfundet) which is a Jewish religious association open to all Jews and collects all different Jewish denominations in the same national organization. Notkin is also a member of the Danish Zionist league (Danska sionistförbundet).

Source in Swedish: http://www.friatider.se/dokumentar-o...ppas-i-danmark

Source in Danish: http://kpn.dk/film/article2298871.ece

[Leonhardt]

Some Jewish leaders want to keep the levels of anti-Semitism high enough so that the Jews remain cohesive and motivated.

Steinlight sounds the alarm of declining anti-Semitism: "Anti-Semitism has fallen to historic lows among white Christians, which still form America's dominant cultural group. Once a significant factor in American life, anti-Semitism has become a peripheral phenomenon. A recent ADL study found only some 12 percent of white Christian Americans hold anti-Semitic attitudes. Indeed, a key factor contributing to the crisis in Jewish Continuity is that our neighbors like us and often wish to marry us and have children with us." -Richard Evans

http://www.henrymakow.com/jewish_lea...s_decline.html

The article also mentions the need for the US as a location for the Jews to fall back on in case of bad times elsewhere in the world.

Some of their leaders are concerned with a growing unified Asian population, since the White people have already self-destructed.

[Oxygen]

Very interesting interview with Yoav Shamir on Counter-Currents Radio conducted by Michael Polignano and Greg Johnson on Tuesday, January 3rd 2012
http://www.counter-currents.com/2012...h-yoav-shamir/

Review of Defamation by Greg Johnson on Counter-Currents
http://www.counter-currents.com/2011...rs-defamation/