JOURNALfor the STUDYof ANTISEMITISM

86 JOURNAL FOR THE STUDY OF ANTISEMITISM [ VOL. 3:71
of the group; • Serious injury to the physical or mental integrity of members
of the group; • Intentional submission of the group conditions of life
and have calculated to bring about its physical destruction, total or partial;
• Measures intended to prevent births within the group; • Transfer of
children of the group to another group
Those who do address these types of statements do not know what
they are talking about; they do not speak from ignorance but from the irrationality
of prejudice, not knowing the meaning of the concepts that arbitrarily
distort meaning when applied capriciously; most of them not users
with the explicit intention of demonizing Israel, but because they have a
prejudiced view in their mental representations that deforms only the state
of Israel. Despite this particular manifestation of the Jew phobia in some
intellectuals, the majority of the intellectuals who think in this way can be
considered antisemitic.
And we speak not only of intellectuals who are not specialists in the
field, as the example of the comparison between Ramallah and Auschwitz
that caught the attention of the Nobel Prize winner José Saramago, but also
of academic specialists in contemporary history who should know better but
do this same kind of disproportionate and unfair comparison.
It is distressing that in the beginning of the 21st century, we observe a
similar situation to the one the Jews fought against the Nazis in the Warsaw
ghetto, but on this occasion, the victims are Palestinians isolated in camps
surrounded by Israelis, where there are many descendants of the
Holocaust. 18
. . . We are with the people of Palestine, at a time when Zionism exerts
the most brutal campaign of military aggression that mankind can imagine,
comparable only with the atrocities of Nazism and its racial policy of
extermination against non-Aryans, during the Government of Adolf
Hitler. 19
. . . What terrible irony of history that the survivors and descendents of the
victims of the Holocaust who carried out the Nazi-fascist dictatorship in
18. Beinusz Szmukler and Vanessa Ramos, Statement of the American Association
of Jurists before the Israel mass attacks against the Palestinian people published
on 3/18/2002 on the WebIslam.com Web site: http://www.webislam.com/
?idt=2491.
19. In a statement called the Declaration of Principles and Solidarity with Venezuelan
Palestine of Artists and Intellectuals, signed by more than 100 Venezuelan
intellectuals. Published on the Internet 1/13/2009 at the LaClase site. Info at http://
laclase.Info/national/statement-of-principles-and-solidarity-with-Palestinian-of-theartists-e-intellectuals.