Gibson’s movie, Miso-Judaic (2)

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2004.02.26 – Just as born-Jews don't really grasp anti-Christian forces in the world, Christians misunderstand miso-Judaism (anti-Semitism).

Any stereotyping of Judaism or Jews is miso-Judaism. (Because Arabs are also Semites, the term "anti-Semitism" isn't accurate.) This is true even when the stereotyping seems, to Christians, to be favorable or harmless. First, it's arrogant and patronizing for Christians to presume to define what is favorable or harmless to Jews. More importantly, Jews don't always see favorable and harmless from the same perspective. Anytime that anyone stereotypes Judaism or "the Jews" it is miso-Judaism, whether the stereotyping is accomplished by generalization, demonization, applying a different standard to Judaism or Jews, delegitimizing Judaism or Jews, or any other stereotyping of Judaism or Jews.

While Christians may be incapable of seeing the harm, or seeing miso-Judaism through the supposed "love" in Gibson's movie, no one can reasonably dispute that Mr. Gibson's movie stereotypes "the Jews" by generalizing from the historically documented minority aristocratic Hellenist-Tzᵊdoq•imꞋ min to portray the "Jews" in his movie -- contrary to "the Jews" (i.e., the majority), who were Pᵊrush•imꞋ (Pharisees), who held the Hellenist-Tzᵊdoq•imꞋ illegitimate "Wicked Priests") in contempt and opposed them. It is, therefore, unequivocally miso-Judaic.

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