A letter by Nicholas Kollerstrom:
Dear Theresa May,
Kindly allow me to comment upon the erroneous definition of anti-Semitism which you are now imposing upon the British people:
“Antisemitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of antisemitism are directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/or their property, toward Jewish community institutions and religious facilities.”
Semites are Arab peoples, and ‘semitic’ is an adjective which alludes to a middle-Eastern group of languages. It cannot allude to white, European Jews. These are normally alluded to as Ashkenazi Khazars, but whatever you call them, they are not semitic.
Indeed they almost all support Israel, a nation which exterminates Palestinians by official policy,[18] which has been destroying their land for half a century – and many or most people hate such Jews for this reason. Who are you to tell people what or who they must love or hate? Israel destroys and bombs semitic peoples. Only a tiny proportion of its peoples are semitic.
For thousands of years, the law in this country has been based upon the notion of crime, which alluded to a deed, to something which has been done. Now you are trying to adjust it, to allude to an attitude, which the police are supposed to recognize as ‘hate.’ Will the courts now employ psychologists, to testify that so-and-so has hated, or made someone hate?
How can law-courts ask people to promise to tell the ‘absolute truth’ if their judgements are now going to depend upon an alleged emotion – one moreover where one suspects that the word of the prosecutor is going to be the sole basis for?
You are making an especial law to defend the richest social-ethnic group (not a race) in this country. Thereby you are destroying the key principal of English law, as enshrined in the Magna Carta, whereby all are equal under the law.
All my life ‘crime’ has been generally regarded as a really bad thing, done only by bad people. Now you are endeavouring to change this, so that it may be necessary for persons of good conscience to risk being convicted of it. Your broad brush of ‘anti-semitism’ is like ‘extremism’ so incredibly sweeping that all persons of good conscience may be impelled to take actions which risk being tarred by it.
Please accept my respect for your good office,
Yours truly,
NK
Nicholas Kollerstrom
Comments:
An anti-Semite is not someone who hates Jews; it is someone the Zionists hate.
Ali
First of all, most of what you were writing was false and nonsense. I’m a Muslim and the truth is almost all of the Muslims hates Israel NOT all the Jews although we do have been told when we were young that the Jews are not to be trusted but not to hate them and kill them in sight and we don’t hate everybody in the world everyone can see that we don’t hate you all, like in Lebanon where Christians and Muslims lives normally even that 55% to 60% are Muslims there the president is Christian, and in our history books we were told that the Jews are saying that they are the best and the rest are junk and their treachery over the Muslims in several occasions but most of the Muslims stood in the fact the current threat is Israel not the Jews in general even in the Qur’an they are told to be the people of the book so don’t say nonsense and to say that all of the Muslims hates ALL of the Jews and the Asker choose a Muslim to write an Answer not someone who didn’t live with us.
Secular Humanist
The overwhelmingly vast majority of Muslims don’t hate Jews; they hate Israel. Many Muslims believe that land on which the modern state of Israel was founded was stolen from the Palestinians. The Qur’an tells Muslims to respect Jews as “People of the Book.”
Amalina
I am a Muslim, but I don’t hate Jews. In the Quran, it just stated not to put our whole trusts on Jews, not to hate them. But that’s a total different story for Zionis. Its weird though. Why do they attack Muslims? While Muslims did nothing to them. During the holocaust, when everyone abandoned them and treated them badly, it was Palestinians that accept them in their country and now Jews want to have it as their own country?
Narges
Iranian respect to Jews and Christians, as Iranian Jewish has a special candidate in parliament. They just hate Zionist, because they killed Palestinians and expelled them from their country forcibly. It is really unfair and oppressive!!!!
Anon
Muslim only hate white Jews meaning European Jews.
Daniel
Because Abraham had two sons, Jacob who spread Judism and Ishmael who spread Islam. God promised each the promised land, and they are fighting against each other for it.
Anonymous
It’s ‘anti-Semitic’ to notice who’s in charge.
It’s ‘anti-Semitic’ to complain about it.
The FEMA camps will be full of ‘anti-Semites’
Anonymous
“By accusing western democracies of anti-Semitism, the Jews put them on the defensive. As long as guilt feelings can be profitably mined, advantages can be gained. But the lode is not likely to last forever.” Moshe Leshem, former Israeli diplomat, p. 253-254
