Sheep magazine Archive 2: issues 10-17

BUT, ARE WE ANTI-SEMITIC?
1. If you think ‘Israel’, ‘Zionists’ and ‘Jews’ are interchangeable terms,
you may well be anti-semitic.
2. If you think a Jewish conspiracy controls the media/international
finance/politics/the BBC, you are anti-semitic. There is no conspiracy. I’m
well-connected in the Jewish community so I’d definitely be invited and
I’ve heard nothing.
3. If you use the term ‘Rothschild’ to imply ‘Jews’, you are definitely an
anti-semite. And congratulations on using the exact same words as the
Nazis and those who incited the Tsarist pogroms, etc.
4. If you try and hide your belief in a ‘Jewish conspiracy’ by using the
term ‘Zionist conspiracy’, you’re fooling no-one. Unless you genuinely
believe the Israeli government is behind everything, its clear you’re
including other Jews in your ‘conspiracy’.
5. If your only defence is ‘Jews aren’t a race so I’m not racist’ or ‘Jews
aren’t the only semites so I’m not an anti-semite’, or if you see antisemitism
as somehow less important than other forms of racism, then
you’re most likely an anti-semite.
6. If you think every Jew needs to condemn Israel in every tweet,
comment, etc, then you may be an anti-semite (see point 1).
6. Supporting the desire of Palestinians for legitimate self-determination,
human rights and their own state, and condemning Israeli government
policies does not make someone anti-semitic. But see points 1–6.
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A test from David Schneider
October 2016