Anti Semitism Quotes - Page 4

• Most extreme acts of anti-Semitism go beyond the acts of anti-Semitism by native Europeans.

  Manfred Gerstenfeld

  Extremes, Native

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• Today again the teacher is the important thing, but on the other hand anti-Semitism is growing today. No doubt about it. All over the world, especially in Europe, and it's true they begin with anti-Israeli attitudes and then it's so strong that it runs over and becomes anti-Semitic.

  Elie Wiesel

  Running, Teacher, Strong

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• The Pope going to Jerusalem, the Pope recognising the State of Islam, the Pope going to the wall organising a concert for the Holocaust in the Vatican, going to the synagogue in Vatican, and that happens in Protestant service as well. That doesn't mean that anti-Semitism disappear, but it is on certain level that Jews all the time, or with Christians, Catholics, Protestants, Jews, meeting all the time, studying together, signing petitions for all kinds of causes.

  Elie Wiesel

  Christian, Wall, Mean

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• I was all for setting up a separate Jewish state in Madagascar or Palestine or someplace, but not to exterminate them. Besides, by exterminating 4 million Jews - they say 5 or 6 million at this trial, but that is all propaganda, I am sure it wasn't more than 4.5 million - they have made martyrs out of those Jews. For example, because of the extermination of these Jews, anti-Semitism has been set back many years in certain foreign countries where it had been making good progress.

  Julius Streicher

  Country, Years, Progress

  "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately, 2004.

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• The second German secret weapon is anti-Semitism, because if it is consistently pursued by Germany, it will become a universal problem which all nations will be forced to consider.

  Robert Ley

  Secret, Germany, Weapons

  "Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal", Nuremberg, Germany, (p. 118), 1947.

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• The science of anti-Semitism finally comes to explain this phenomenon, enlightening further the consciousness of people, fully satisfying their instinct and its violent eruptions thus legitimized by revealing their cause - the parasitism of the Jews. Thus it gives us the formula of the scientific solution for the problem of Judaism, which in order to realize we have only to apply.

  A. C. Cuza

  Order, People, Giving

  "Ştiinţa antisemitismului ("The Science of Anti-Semitism")". "Apararea Nationala" ("The National Defense") No. 16, Nov. 15, 1922.

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• Anti-Semitism is not based on strictly religious grounds and is not directed against the Jewish faith as such. However, all German Christians resent and denounce the fact that the Jews have been the chief advocates of atheism. They have influenced the workers' children through the Communist youth organizations, of which they are the leading spirit.

  Ernst Hanfstaengl

  Christian, Religious, Children

  "Nazis in the News: 1933". www.pbs.org. March 5, 1933.

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• Darwinism undermined traditional morality and the value of human life. Then, evolutionary progress became the new moral imperative. This aided the advance of eugenics, which was overtly founded on Darwinian principles. Some eugenicists began advocating euthanasia and infanticide for the disabled. On a parallel track, some prominent Darwinists argued that human racial competition and war is part of the Darwinian struggle for existence. Hitler imbibed these social Darwinist ideas, blended in virulent anti-Semitism, and--there you have it: Holocaust

  Richard Weikart

  War, Struggle, Eugenics

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• Before the change of regime in 1989, you couldn't talk about anti-Semitism, and after the regime change, people started to talk about taboo subjects. I was 8 years old in those days, and later, in politics and society, these extreme wright ideologies got stronger - the skinhead movement was started, a lot of ex-Nazis emigrated and financially supported these extreme right movements in Hungary.

  Csanad Szegedi

  Years, People, Stronger

  Source: www.salon.com

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• it came to me, as we sat there, glumly ordering lunch, that for extremely stupid people anti-Semitism was a form of intellectuality, the sole form of intellectuality of which they were capable. It represented, in a rudimentary way, the ability to make categories, to generalize.

  Mary McCarthy

  Stupid, Lunch, People

  Mary McCarthy (1961). “On the contrary”, Farrar, Straus and Cudahy

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• It is not possible for Christians to take part in anti-Semitism. We are Semites spiritually.

  Pope Pius XI

  Christian, Jew

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• With little knowledge of what it meant to be a Jew, I found myself passionately defending the Jewish people. Now, half a century later, I have to defend my son. Anti-Semitism, I've seen, is like a disease that goes dormant, flaring up with the next political trigger.

  Michael Douglas

  Son, People, Political

  "Michael Douglas Pens Op-Ed on Anti-Semitism: 'We Can Stop the Spread of This Madness" by Lorena O'Neil, www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 16, 2015.

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• Why ... do the myths of America the Hateful take such powerful hold? Because anti-Americanism provides a useful emotional function which goes beyond logic and reaches deep into the darker recesses of the European soul. In centuries past those on the Left who wished to personalise their hatred of capitalism, who sought to make it emotionally resonant by fastening an envious political passion on to a blameless scapegoat people, embraced anti-Semitism. It was the socialism of fools. Which is what anti-Americanism is now.

  Michael Gove

  Powerful, Passion, Emotional

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• I have no patience for those in the American Jewish community who just go around slandering people as anti-Semites without realizing that what they're doing is really trivializing anti-Semitism.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  People, Community, Realizing

  "The World According to Zbig". Interview with Charles Gati, www.politico.com. November 27, 2013.

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• Clearly the anti-Semitism in Germany in the 1930s went overboard and it was clearly a terrible moment in history.

  Peter Eisenman

  Germany, Moments, Overboard

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I went back to a small town in Poland where my dad grew up. It was a very traumatic experience for me as a young man to know that my father's family were killed by Nazis, killed by Hitler. And that left, you know, if not intellectually, at least an emotional part of me which said, God, we have got to do everything we can to end this kind of horrific racism or anti-Semitism. And I have spent much of my life trying to fight that.

  Bernie Sanders

  Dad, Father, Fighting

  Source: www.npr.org

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• In Paris... I achieved a freer attitude toward anti-Semitism, which I now began to understand historically and to pardon. Above all, I recognized the emptiness and futility of trying to "combat" anti-Semitism.

  Theodor Herzl

  Attitude, Paris, Trying

  "The Diaries of Theodor Herzl". Book by Theodor Herzl, 1956.

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• When looking at Germans, I have never felt a sense that they are guilty. I have encountered anti-Semitism in the United States as well.

  Peter Eisenman

  United States, Guilty, Wells

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I was never concretely aware of the extent of anti-Semitism in the United States and in the upper levels of the State Department.

  Erik Larson

  United States, Levels, Department

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• The Dreyfus Affair is an exceptional case. It's true that here and there you can find some dregs of anti-Semitism, but the situation is the same in every country. After all, you're not exactly a nation like all the other nations. You are unique, if only because you are such an ancient people, and because of the way you are spread all over the world and your obvious success in many fields. But, in all honesty, anti-Semitism in France has always remained on a minimal level, at the verbal level only. It never went as far as pogroms.

  Jean-Marie Le Pen

  Country, Honesty, Unique

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• There was no reason to label us as anti-Semitic. No reason at all. I do not know one person in the National Front who committed even the most minor hostile act against a Jewish person or Jewish property. As for me, even though I have been accused of anti-Semitism countless times, no one has ever heard me make anti-Semitic statements or engage in anti-Semitic behavior. There just are people, organizations, that need an adversary and they want the public to believe that this adversary is dangerous.

  Jean-Marie Le Pen

  Believe, Organization, People

  "The veil? It protects us from ugly women" by Adar Primor, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2002.

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• As much progress as we think we've made with legislation, litigation and education, anti-Semitism still continues to be the No. 2 hate crime in the United States. You can't eliminate it, but you can try to keep a lid on it.

  Abraham Foxman

  Hate, Thinking, Progress

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• I disagree with Muhammad. I'm against hate, anti-Semitism and homophobia. This is not a village of hate. It's a village of hope. Don't let midgets give us a bad name. There are still giants in Harlem, giants who will stand up for our children.

  Al Sharpton

  Children, Hate, Names

  First Million Youth March in Harlem, New York, September 05, 1998.

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• Many who wave American flags also practice discrimination on the basis of race. Many who wave American flags practice anti-Semitism. We think that betrays the fundamental ideals of our democracy.

  Billy Campbell

  Betrayal, Thinking, Practice

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• When ordinary Soviet citizens are told that a vital trade agreement awarding their country most-favoured-nation status with the US is being blocked in Congress because Soviet Jews are demanding as an absolute right something few other inhabitants can expect as a special privilege - then the result is likely to be spontaneous outbreaks of anti-Semitism.

  Alan Brien

  Country, Agreement, Special

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