A Comment About

Silencing the Jews

March 18, 2010 - 12:00 am - by Andrew G. Bostom
Michael Lonie
2010-08-09 22:08:08

“Antisemite” was not coined by Jews, atheist or not. It was coined by Wilhelm Marr in 1879. Marr was a Jew hater who considered the old German word for such hatred, Judenhass, hopelessly archaic and not suitable for the new, “scientific,” racialist hatred of Jews that he espoused. He coined antisemitism because he thought it sounded more up-to-date and modern. This is quite a well-known fact among those who pay attention to the intellectual history of modern antisemitism.

I doubt if any atheist Jews coined “Islamophobia” either. I don’t know wh did. If you know and have evidence that person was an atheist Jews by all means present it. The shrill tone of your post does not lead me to trust your statements without substantial evidential backing.