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From: martillo@mit-athena.ARPA (Joaquim Martillo)
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Subject: Re: Wanted:  Sufficient proof that Tutu is anti-Semitic
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Date: Sun, 6-Jan-85 10:22:23 EST
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I  should like Jeff Fields to define what he considers anti-Semitic.  If
Joe McCarthy had claimed that Judaism had provided the model for  Soviet
Marxist  practice,  I  suspect all the great liberals would have accused
him of anti-Semitism.   Now  apartheid  is  an  extremely  reprehensible
social system and Tutu claims Jewish practice of 2000 years ago provided
the model for apartheid.  Perhaps, I should not even  have  bothered  to
explain the Jewish practice; the claim that the practice of my ancestors
of almost 2 millenia ago provides the model for a  system  started  less
than   2  centuries  ago  is  simply  moronic  and  reminds  me  of  the
right-wingers who  consider  the  Jews  guilty  for  communism,  of  the
traditional  Christian  anti-semites  who  consider  the  Jews guilty as
deicides, of the Sunni Muslims who consider the Jews guilty of murdering
Muhammad (who died of old age) and who consider the Jews responsible for
the Shia and of the Shiites who consider the Jews  responsible  for  the
martyrdom  of `Ali.  These seem to me all to be prima facie anti-Semitic
beliefs (probably also secunda et tertia facie ad infinitum).