# "It's all about the Benjamins, baby" -- anti-Semitic?

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**Created:** [February 11, 2019, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-all-about-the-benjamins-baby-anti-semitic/829356 "2019-02-11T20:16:48Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 17, 2019, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-all-about-the-benjamins-baby-anti-semitic/829356/116 "2019-02-17T14:33:23Z")

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If I’ve across as some sort of Jew-hater in this thread, I think it’s just one more example of political correctness run amok.

> [@Alessan](#):
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> I’m sorry. It’s just that in my experience, the only people who ever have a problem with the term “antisemitism”, are antisemites. You may have inadvertently blown a dog whistle.

Here’s my first post regarding the Middle East dispute on this Board, from almost nine years ago. Dog whistling?

> [@When in human history should reasonable people find a "cut-off" of the right of title by conquering?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-in-human-history-should-reasonable-people-find-a-cut-off-of-the-right-of-title-by-conquering/542464/37):
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> 😕 The thread asks: When do we “cut off” right of title? Mexians aren’t bombing us to get Texas back. Germans aren’t bombing Poland to get their possessions there back. And Palestinians would be prospering if not for cynical Arab “leadership.” (And do note, as others in the thread point out, that title to much of the disputed land was transferred to Israelis _by Arabs_.)
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> 😕 Gaza fires rockets into Israel to kill Israeli civilians and proudly gloats that it’s at war, yet Israel is then condemned for asking an embargo-running ship to submit to inspection. :smack: Arab oil is dear, but anti-Semitism available very cheaply. Does that help clarify things for you?

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