Aaahh, well -- that's an incoherent bunch of nonsense, of course. But I have something to say based on it....
First off, as I think I've posted on one or another occasion, I'm one of those "Jews." I'm also someone most of whose family was wiped out by the Germans, the Nazis. In my Father's extended family, two people got out of Europe alive, my Father & one of his 2 sisters. His other sister, a bright & talented 19-year old, was gassed at Auschwitz. As was his Mother. Also his Father. & pretty much everyone else in the entire extended family (although, miraculously, I was contacted about a decade ago by a 2d cousin who survived & lived her life in Poland -- she died a couple of years ago, alas).
My Father picked up a liver disease in a French camp; he lived along enough to have 2 kids (me, obviously, & my sister) but died of that liver disease when I was 4. He was 34 years old. The story on my Mother's side is more or less the same though not quite as thoroughly awful.
Above all, however, the family did survive. I have 2 children & 4 grandchildren; my sister has 2 kids & 5 grandkids. I'm not looking for sympathy; save that for the millions who perished -- not just Jews, either but gypsies, homosexuals, Socialists, & millions who were merely in the path of Hitler's armies. Hell, over 16 million Russians died in WWII -- &, for that matter, over 4 million German soldiers alone.
In one week, Allied bombs killed over 120,000 Germans in Dresden -- & destroyed the city. This was when the war was almost over; there was no strategic, military reason for the campaign whatever. It was payback. It's easy to say that they deserved it -- but who is "they?" Did the infants, schoolkids, etc. who died deserve it?
All this is preface to what I really want to say: many people, maybe most people, make the same mistake in thinking about antisemitism that they do in thinking about racism: they imagine that these phenomena represent some kind of "prejudice." They don't -- though of course people do feel prejudices of all sorts.
Both antisemitism & racism are what one might call "world-historical" phenomena. In the case of racism, it is a theory of the world that was invented in the 19th century as the ideological bulwark of global colonialism & imperialism. The classic justifying text is described here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Essay_on_the_Inequality_of_the_Human_Races.
The fact that racism & prejudice are altogether different phenomena is easily illustrated right here on this forum: nate -- one of my favorite posters -- is a declared racist. But, I've never seen him show even the slightest sign of prejudice. He plays basketball 2 nights a week at the YMCA, which has to mean that he has black teammates. I'd be willing to bet that he has no trouble whatever getting along in that circle of guys.
Am I making all that up? I don't know nate, so I suppose it's possible. But... I really doubt it.
Like racism, antisemitism is not a product of prejudice. & just as racism is also not a product of any fact about black human beings, so too antisemitism is not a product of any facts about Jewish human beings. Instead -- again like racism -- antisemitism is a key theory of the world. It's at the heart of the founding of European (& our) civilization. As Christianity developed, did its mind-meld with the Roman Empire, & set out to convert the entire world (as the Roman Empire's new-&-improved way of staying alive!), Jews posed both a problem (Christianity recycled its core ideas but Jews weren't interested in being absorbed thereby) & a solution (no way was the church going to let it be the Romans who killed Jesus -- a radical Jewish rabbi, btw! -- since that could only prove an embarrassment for both sides of the newly-struck power bargain).
In other words, antisemitism is basic to Western Civilization, and racism is basic to modern global capitalism.
So... every word written on the page in "oneofone"'s post may be billshut, & in fact that's what it is, but what he has right is that both racism & antisemitism are manifestations of powerful historical forces -- not just the amalgamated prejudices of however many individuals.
Hey, how much do I know about basketball, really? Feel free to think I'm an idiot for wanting to trade down in the draft or whatever....
But, this stuff I know a lot about. From personal & family experience, from being forced by that experience to investigate these phenomena in depth, & from a long life forcing my brain to work hard plowing the fields in this region of human experience. What I wrote above... that's the truth. & if Stephen Jackson has done something that winds up putting the truth right in your path or mine where we can't avoid it, then he still may be a dumb*** but we need to be grateful to him all the same.
End of screed!