Anti Semitism Quotes - Page 2

• Acts of anti-Semitism in countries throughout the world, including some of the world's strongest democracies, have increased significantly in frequency and scope over the last several years.

  Tim Holden

  Country, Democracies Have, Years

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• When two drivers curse each other on the road, and one of them happens to be a Jew, you can't define that as anti-Semitism.

  Jean-Marie Le Pen

  Two, Curse, Jew

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• There is a resurgence of anti-Semitism in Europe. The policies of the Bush administration and the Sharon administration contribute to that. It's not specifically anti-Semitism, but it does manifest itself in anti-Semitism as well.

  George Soros

  Europe, Administration, Doe

  "In Rare Jewish Appearance, George Soros Says Jews and Israel Cause Anti- Semitism". www.jta.org. November 10, 2003.

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• I am disgusted by the anti-Semitism of many Italians, of many Europeans.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Disgusted

  "A Sermon for the West". Address to an audience at the American Enterprise Institute, October 22, 2002.

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• One of the pleasures of being a Jew, I don't have to tell you, it allows you anti-Semitism.

  Joseph Epstein

  Pleasure, Jew

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. August 31, 2003.

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• Even in the Western world, one cannot argue that the ideal has been achieved given the existence of issues like the integration, participation and representation of Muslim citizens, and occasional but lingering anti-Semitism.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Issues, Citizens, World

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• I feel that the Christian experience and the Jewish one have much to give each other. If this open society continues and there is no return to political anti-Semitism, then this encounter, deeper than any theology, may happen.

  Lionel Blue

  Christian, Giving, Political

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• How many of my basic principles were upset by this change in my attitude toward the Christian Social movement! My views with regard to anti-Semitism thus succumbed to the passage of time, and this was my greatest transformation of all.

  Adolf Hitler

  Christian, Attitude, Views

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In my view the European culture carries a very heavy responsibility for the creation of Israel... it is a product of both British and Stalin's anti- Semitism, but the British never faced their own complicity in its construction.

  Tom Paulin

  Responsibility, Israel, Views

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• Hence today I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator: by defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord.

  Adolf Hitler

  Believe, Fighting, Evil

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The Jewish nation dares to display an irreconcilable hatred toward all nations, and revolts against all masters; always superstitious, always greedy for the well-being enjoyed by others, always barbarous - cringing in misfortune and insolent in prosperity.

  Voltaire

  Hatred, Prosperity, Greedy

  "'Essai sur les Moeurs et l'Esprit des Nations' ('Essay on the Manners of Nations')". Book by Voltaire. Introduction, XLII, 1756.

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• Lawyers earn their bread in the sweat of their browbeating.

  James Huneker

  Sweat, Bread, Lawyer

  James Huneker (1920). “Painted Veils”

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• Holocaust denial is not only a falsification of history, it is an expression of anti-Semitism.

  David Irving

  Expression, Holocaust, Denial

  Source: thevoiceofreason-ann.blogspot.com

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• I was a working class Jewish girl. In my girlhood, anti-Semitism was a daily fact of life in Detroit. I did not come from people who had many options in their lives or many choices open to them. I was a girl in a family in which women were, as in society at large, very much second-class citizens. I did not see why I should accept these forced limitations without a fight. Being free to make my own choices thus became very important to me at an early age.

  Marge Piercy

  Girl, Fighting, Class

  Interview with Charlotte Templin, margepiercy.com. May 2004.

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• If we confront anti-Semitism ... if we combat it individually and as a society, and use whatever platform we have to denounce it, we can stop the spread of this madness.

  Michael Douglas

  Use, Madness, Platforms

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• One of the chief tasks of any dialogue with the Gentile world is to prove that the distinction between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism is not a distinction at all.

  Abba Eban

  Israel, Tasks, World

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• Anti-Semitism is the rumour about the Jews.

  Theodor Adorno

  Jew, Rumours

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.110, Verso

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• Major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semitism, is our profound skepticism that white people can actually be oppressed.

  Barbara Smith

  Color, White, People

  "Yours in Struggle: Three Feminist Perspectives on Anti-Semitism and Racism".

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• Jewish people have been victims of anti-Semitism in many parts of the world, and in Europe they were the target of the Holocaust, the ultimate abomination. Yet, we cannot expect Palestinians to accept this as a reason why the wrongs done to them.

  Kofi Annan

  Europe, People, Holocaust

  Kofi A. Annan (2015). “We the Peoples: A UN for the Twenty-First Century”, p.120, Routledge

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• But as my brother was doing his research for a book about my father, it became his opinion that the most influential anti-semitism my father encountered when he was growing up was from Jews, because his relatives were German Jews, and doctors.

  Tobias Wolff

  Brother, Growing Up, Father

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• Anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the businessman.

  Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

  Long, Retrospect, Businessman

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• Anti-Semitism is a horrible disease from which nobody is immune, and it has a kind of evil fascination that makes an enlightened person draw near the source of infection, supposedly in a scientific spirit, but really to sniff the vapors and dally with the possibility.

  Mary McCarthy

  Race, Racism, Evil

  Mary McCarthy (1964). “The humanist in the bathtub”

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• There is not anti-semitism as an ideology. The civilized world must think that anti-semitism is stupid.

  Elie Wiesel

  Stupid, Thinking, World

  Source: alainelkanninterviews.com

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• Once again, through myself, the Church, in the words of the well-known declaration Nostra Aetate, 'deplores the hatred, persecutions and displays of anti-Semitism directed against the Jews at any time and by anyone.' I repeat, 'By anyone.'

  Pope John Paul II

  Hate, Hatred, Church

  Pope John Paul II (1995). “Spiritual Pilgrimage: Texts on Jews and Judaism, 1979-1995”, Herder & Herder

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• On my recent trip to Israel, I had the opportunity to visit Yad Vashem, Israel's national Holocaust memorial, and reaffirm our collective responsibility to confront anti-Semitism, prejudice, and intolerance across the world. On this Yom Hashoah, we must accept the full responsibility of remembrance, as nations and as individuals-not simply to pledge "never again," but to commit ourselves to the understanding, empathy and compassion that is the foundation of peace and human dignity.

  Barack Obama

  Responsibility, Opportunity, Compassion

  Statement from the President on Yom Hashoah, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. April 08, 2013.

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