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(on a visit to Israel in the early 1970s) There was no great significance to that visit, but I`m interested in the fact that Jews are Semites, like Babylonians, Hittites, Arabs, Syrians, Ethiopians. But a Jew is different because a lot of people hate Jews. There`s something going on here that`s hard to explain.

- Bob Dylan

What is ironic is that equating Zionism with Jewishness, is adopting the very tactic favoured by anti-semites.

- Allen Beck

In my blood there is no Jewish blood. In their callous rage, all anti-Semites must hate me now as a Jew. For that reason I am a true Russian.

- Andrew Speedy