Palm Beach Jewish Star Times · the rail carries only the edition code “PB” and the web address; no city is printed · 12 September 2001

CP-2001-055

Israeli statement made at World Conference

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…freedom in their land, was intrinsically bound up with the belief that not just one people but rather all peoples must be free. It was this conviction that Theodor Herzl, the founder of the Zionist movement, expressed in his book Altneuland, as early as 1902. He wrote: “There is still one problem of racial misfortune unsolved.

The depths of that problem only a Jew can comprehend. I refer to the problem of the Blacks. Just call to mind all those terrible episodes of the slave trade, of human beings who merely because they were black were stolen like cattle,taken prisoners, captured and sold.

Their children grew up in strange lands,the objects of contempt and hostility because their complexions were different. I am not ashamed to say, though I may expose myself to ridicule for saying so, that once I have witnessed the redemption of Israel, my people, I wish to assist the redemption of the Black people.”

As Herzl understood, remembrance of slavery is integral to the Jewish experience. A Jew cannot be truly free if he or she does not have compassion for those who are enslaved. Madame Chairperson, If slavery is one form of racist atrocity, anti-Semitism is another. And by anti-Semitism, let us be clear, we mean the hatred of Jews.

The word “anti-Semitism” was deliberately coined in 1879 by Wilhelm Marr, an anti-Jewish racist in Germany, to replace the term “judenhass” or Jew-hatred,which had gone out of favor. It has always and only been used to describe hatred and discrimination directed at Jews.

Attempts to eradicate the plain meaning of the word are not only anti-Semitic, indeed they are anti-semantic.

How this transcription was made

Date confirmed on the page (folio-verified for the DATE, folio-CONTRADICTED for the PAPER. The running rail down the right edge of the page reads, set vertically, “PB www.jewishstartimes.com WEDNESDAY, SEPTEM). Filed under the archive’s spelling; the page prints “Miami Herald”. named from the rail domain www.jewishstartimes.com at Maria's direction; no masthead on the page

Context added by this archive

This clipping is the one in Batch E whose publication I would not ingest without Maria or Eva ruling on it. Everything else about it is readable and transcribed.

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