Menuhin wrote: […] What is "semite"? That includes all the Palestinians, Jordanians, Bedouins, Lebanese, etc in the area. […]
The usual argument of antisemites - if you can't refute the argument, try refuting the word.
Even if the word "Semitic" has a different (scientific) meaning, "antisemite" is commonly used to refer to people who hate Jews, that's as simple as that.
Trying to obfuscate this evident meaning of the word "antisemite" is behaving like those Middle-Age Catholic priests who, prohibited by the Church to eat flesh on Fridays, ate fish because, well, fish is not flesh, is it?
I have friends from Israel, or friends who hold their passports because of their grandparents that hang out and discuss almost every kind of matters with me. They are very opened minded, but not brainwashed, some of them can even be on the questioning side.
Sure you have friends from Israel. Probably a whole bunch. Dozens of them. More than anyone else. And of course all eager to discuss with you and hear from you that they belong to a conspiracy with the aim of taking over the world.
Don't they tell you how they poison wells and sacrifice Christian babies?
The point of that video was, why bother to try to add up to such a specific number?
The same numbers have been 'casually' repeatedly used by the same group many many times in history claiming victims blaming different groups for various acts on newspapers. Of course, someone brainwashed may want to say these can all be true. And of course, there was this final one time some people were finally in power, and then hit the jack pot to run a full program to add up to the number and wrote books, alongside the resettlement and century long continuous funding program.
The number of "six million" in the video refers to "half of the Jewish population of the world" in Eastern Europe whose normal existence was generally threatened by different entities in WWI, not to planned intentional mass murdering. This has nothing to do with the "six million" of the Holocaust. It must have been a real feast for your fellow antisemites when they discovered that both numbers happened to coincidate.
And by the way, do you think i) that the number "six million" has a sort of magic meaning to the Jews, so that it had to be repeated, or ii) that the Jews were so stupid they invented the number "six million" after the war without noticing they had already used it previously?
The last newspaper (23 February 1938) in the video is a really perfide argument. You may not be aware that three days before, Hitler had announced that he planned to unify all Germans in one single State, thus clearly threatening particularly Poland, where Jews made up about 10% of the entire population of nearly 35 million, and the Jewish population of Central Europe in general. The visceral antisemitism of the Nazis had been documented in "Mein Kampf" already in 1923, and their politics in Germany at the time the newspaper was published was a 5 year long story of deprivation of rights of the Jews.
The article was an evident reaction to Hitler's announcement.
Most importantly, I want to point out that when the act of questioning is forbidden, something is really wrong with the authority. I would love to hear what primary historical evidences are for which events, I already talked about Berlin Wall, etc.
You are not asking any questions, even if you repeat it again and again. You keep posting arguments, not questions.
And you don't even have the guts to say they are directed at Jews, but use periphrases instead.
By the way, even the nick you use here on DT, a keyboard forum, shows how central this topic is to you.
Yehudi Menuhin was a famous Jewish violonist and conductor, his son Gerard Menuhin denies the Holocaust.
Now don't tell me your nick has nothing to do with either of them
