Human Wrongs Watch
“To label public intellectuals like Jimmy Carter, Desmond Tutu, Richard Falk, Günter Grass, Judith Butler, Evelyn Hecht-Galinski, Richard Dawkins, Mairead McGuire, Noam Chomsky and others “anti-Semitic” is false libel of persons in no way anti-Semitic, with important perspectives. The “correct” speech carries us nowhere: [1] Israel is always right; [2] Israel’s critics are always wrong.”
By Johan Galtung, TRANSCEND*
From Grenzach-Wyhlen, Germany
Anti-Semitism, AS, is to be against Jews as such; pre-judging all based on some, pars pro toto.
Being anti any category humans are born into–woman-man, black-white–is a fatal disease, with prejudice escalating to hatred, leading to discrimination, escalating to war, even genocide.
There is linearity; perpetrators to victims.
To prevent and cure this disease we must understand its causes, roots, and learn what, and what not, to do.
To be against disease is not good enough.
With the open mind provided by academic freedom, and freedom of speech as a basic human right, we have explored diseases like cancer to identify the roots, the carcinogens.
Smoking, active and passive, is among them; saying so is not “blaming the victim”.