The person you're responding to is saying that the zionist movement is a major reason for modern antisemitism. That antisemitism predates the zionist movement has no power to refute his point, unless the reasons for antisemitism have been static throughout history, which they haven't.
Re:Jewish problems
by burgerbrain on Tuesday October 11, 2011 @12:00PM
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I don't think he's attempting to give a formal proof, he's just saying that TheDroids argument doesn't pass a basic sniff test.
But even if that were the case, you're making a pretty ridiculos argument:
1) Antisemitism has been around for a thousand years, before certain organizations existed.
2) Antisemitism is still around now.
3) Now it makes sense, because those organizations exist.
Whereas it makes a lot more sense that these organizations are an excuse for antisemitism, not the cause. After all, antisemitism has been around non-stop for thousands of years, there's no reason to think that it would have stopped had these organizations not existed.