Counter-Semitism
Counter-Semitism (also referred to as Judeo-criticism and Judeo-skepticism) is a neutral term used to describe the position of opponents of Jewish supremacism and chauvinism in the dialectic of Jew-Gentile relations. The term emerged during the latter 20th century, as "antisemitism"—itself of contentious origins—had been purposefully distorted into a pure epithet by controlled medias, in a critical theory process of ritual defamation. Counter-Semitism returns the chronology of the discourse to the objective order, emphasising the initiation of conflict as arising from actions of the Jewish, rather than Gentile party. That is to say a self-defensive opposition and criticism of Jewish supremacism.
Etymology
The term was developed by Joseph Sobran in a 1990 piece for the New Republic, in what he described as a reaction to "the excessive moral prestige Jews have in the media and the public square. Jews deciding the standards, setting the criteria of humanity. Since they set themselves up as the arbiter, there is, if you'll pardon the expression, a certain kill-the-umpire impulse".[1] This was part of the discourse on the paleoconservative vs. neoconservative situation.[2] Some former Trotskyists, mostly Jewish in background had Launce a putsch to usurp the conservative movement and neutralise it as part of a group evolutionary strategy—from a disposition which advocates order, patriotism, family and traditional values—into a wing of Zionism. What Sobran described as an "obsession with a tiny, faraway socialist ethnocracy."
History
Counter-Semitism is a term developed by Joseph Sobran in a 1990 article as a more neutral term than anti-Semitism for certain forms of criticisms. He described it as a reaction against "the excessive moral prestige Jews have in the media and the public square…Jews deciding the standards, setting the criteria of humanity...People are looking at them and saying, come off it. This period of moral prestige has kind of ended." He denied seeking a "negative outcome" for Jews but to "bring them down to the level of ordinary society".[3][4]
See also
External links
- “For Fear of the Jews” – Article by Sobran on Jewish influence, neoconservatism, and on being fired for "anti-Semitism"
References
- ↑ Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (December 1995). "The Philadelphia Inquirer's New Spectrum".
- ↑ Weisberg,✡ Jacob (22 October 1990). "The Heresies of Pat Buchanan".
- ↑ The Philadelphia Inquirer’s New Spectrum http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1338
- ↑ The Heresies of Pat Buchanan http://www.tnr.com/article/the-heresies-pat-buchanan
