I'm not sure I understand the purport of any of Lee Lady's messages. But to
the extent that facts may be useful:
 
1. The term "antisemitism" is usually defined in terms of prejudicial
ideas, not physical violence. That was certainly the intent of the man who
coined the term, Wilhelm Marr. However, Marr used the vocabulary of combat
as the vehicle of his central metaphor. For instance, the title of the
pamphlet where the term "Antisemitismus" first appears (Bern, 1879) is _Der
Sieg des Judenthums ueber das Germanenthum_. In the light of subsequent
events, it's hard not to remember that sometimes "Sieg" means "Sieg."
 
2. One author who has thought productively about the meanings of the word
"antisemitism" is Leon (accent aigu) Poliakov. I could recommend his
_History of Anti-Semitism_ and _The Aryan Myth: A History of Racist and
Nationalist Ideas in Europe_ (English translations 1965 and 1974).
 
3. Pound was hardly the only Christian (sensu lato) who had Jews on the
brain, nor was his obsession the most severe. Henry Adams, for
counterinstance, used to react to the word "Jew" in the same enraged way
Pound reacted to the word "Roosevelt," and James Russell Lowell had a
terror of Jews so great that it affected his sanity. Next to them, Pound
appears almost temperate. Pound wasn't a Hitler, wasn't a Louis-Ferdinand
Celine or a Robert Brasillach, wasn't even a John Quinn. And I'm not sure
anybody on this list thinks he was.
 
4. But just as a matter of fact, letters 63 and 64 of _Pound/Zukofsky_
partially concern the word "antisemite," and in 64 Pound applies the term
to himself.
 
Jonathan Morse