"Mommy, what does 'anti-Semitic' mean?"

San Francisco CA

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"Mommy... what does 'anti-Semitic' mean? It's all over the newspapers." "It's very simple, darling. "'Anti' means 'bad for'. "'Semitic' means 'Jewish'. "So, 'anti-Semitic' means 'bad for Jewish'. "That's it! Not hard at all. "Jews are angry because they keep telling people that it's bad for the Jews when everyone knows how they treat the Palestinians, and they want everyone to stop doing things that are bad for the Jews, but people won't stop, because they want the Jews to stop being bad to the Palestinians: and the Jews say, 'What we are doing is not bad for us, why should we stop?'" "The Jews don't sound like very nice people, Mommy." "That's true, but if you say the obvious, the Jews will say you are being 'anti-Semitic'." "Why do people care so much about what the Jews think, Mommy?" "They don't. We don't. Jews have a lot of money and a lot of power and they are trying to use their money and power to make us do things we don't want to do... much like the Palestinians." "We should take all their money and power away and treat them like Palestinians, Mommy!" "That's true, but if you say that, the Jews will say you are being 'anti-Semitic'." "Why are the Jews so mean, Mommy?" "Because they worship a mean God who tells them they are better then everyone else, sweetheart."