Definition 2011: Anti-Semite

Any person or organization that thinks that she or he, or they, can freely disagree with the policies of the apartheid state of Israel, or their American allies, and utter those thoughts or arguments in any public forum. Now comes, the hysterical,shrill proclamation of righteous indignation at this prima facie demonstration of hatred and intolerance, with the political intent of shaming the author or authors into silence.Coming from those who have an institutional investment in a very proscribed political notion of tolerance, as being located in supine acceptance of the given: the unchallengeable rightness of Israel as a priori and by definition indemnifying the American Likudniks from critique.

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Rootless cosmopolitan,down at heels intellectual;would be writer. 'Polemic is a discourse of conflict, whose effect depends on a delicate balance between the requirements of truth and the enticements of anger, the duty to argue and the zest to inflame. Its rhetoric allows, even enforces, a certain figurative licence. Like epitaphs in Johnson’s adage, it is not under oath.' https://www.lrb.co.uk/v15/n20/perry-anderson/diary
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