T. Belman. Please answer the question. Why are we hated so for thousands of years, without abatement? What is it about Judaism or Jews that gives rise to such hatred? Or should I ask, what is it about human psychology that produces such hatred?
Francisco Gil-White asked and answered the question, Why is there antisemitism?
The Crux of World History answers this question. I show that there has been and still is so much antisemitism in the West because Judaism is the original mass movement of the political left. It is the original movement of progressive politics, preaching freedom, justice, equality, ethics, and compassion. This is precisely why the Western ruling classes have always persecuted the Jews and taught ordinary gentiles to hate them, lest ordinary people learn from the Jews that they have a right to live in freedom and equality. Once this is understood, the history of the West, with its endless sequence of anti-Jewish massacres, will, for the first time, make sense. Only if good people quickly come to understand this can the next genocide — already upon us — be prevented.
He wrote this before “progressive” took on new meaning.
King Solomon said, (Ecclesiastes 1:9).
The sun rises, and the sun goes down…all streams run to the sea… what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun.
In his prescience, King Solomon no doubt knew that one of the things that would remain the same was the obdurate persistence––over thousands of years––of maniacal Jew hatred and a fanatical loathing of Israel.
If it weren’t so serious, and deadly, it would be almost comical, considering that the massive, heavily armed, immensely populated, and hugely influential empires that tried to annihilate the Jews—the Babylonians, Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Assyrians, et al––have been extinct for centuries, while the teeny tiny world of Judaism flourishes to this day.
And that is not to omit the Crusades and Inquisition and forced conversions and the 20th century Holocaust in which Hitler’s “willing executioners” ––all over Europe––succeeded in mass-murdering a full half of the world’s Jewry. Here is a partial picture of Jewish history and persecution that makes the vibrancy of modern Jewish life even more amazing!
But not so amazing that today, in the putatively evolved 21st century, the historical scourge of viciously rampant Jew hatred not only gallops across the globe but also in hundreds if not thousands of colleges and universities in our own country!
According to The Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry, hatred of Jews is on a significant rise. Their 2021 survey reports:
- In the US, which has the largest Jewish population outside of Israel, the number of anti-Jewish hate crimes recorded in both New York and Los Angeles was almost twice that of the previous year,
- In France, the number of recorded antisemitic incidents increased by nearly 75% compared with 2020,
- In Canada, a leading Jewish group reported a 40-year record in anti-Semitic physical violence in one month – August,
- In the UK, the number of recorded physical assaults against Jews increased by 78% compared with 2020,
- In Germany, anti-Semitic incidents recorded by police were up 29% compared with 2020,
- In Australia, there was the sharpest rise in recorded anti-Semitic incidents, with 88 in May alone.
- In Ukraine (Jewish population: 43,000), acts of vandalism against Jews increased 162.5% from 2019.
In fact, according to the Annual Report on Hate Crimes released by the Uniform Crime Reporting Program of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), it is Jews, among the world’s tiniest populations––15 million in a world of nearly eight billion––who experience the most bias, hatred, assaults, blatant racism and hate crimes.
Yet, we Jews continue to thrive not only in our ancestral home in the State of Israel but around the world, contributing disproportionately, as we always have, to the world’s welfare––in science, the arts, medicine, technology, athletics, media, et al. Still, the world’s Jew haters and Israel loathers continue to marinate in their DNA hatred and envy of the Jews who, of course, they should be admiring and emulating. Stupid is forever!
WHO COULD IMAGINE?
It is inconceivable that in America, a country that welcomes the stranger, strives mightily for equality, and in which minorities have succeeded far beyond even their own expectations, that many of our leaders have been outright racists themselves, with a particularly irrational hatred toward Jews.
Going back to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, whose Jew hatred has been exhaustively documented by professor, columnist and author Rafael Medoff, among others; up to the Ayatollah-infatuated Jimmy Carter who had and continues to have a “special animus” toward Jews and Israel, according to rabbi and author Shmuley Boteach; and not to omit the seething Jew hatred of Barack Obama, as spelled out here and here and here and here, the list has no end.
But who could imagine that in the so-called evolved culture of 2022, that among the most maniacally antisemitic people in the world––and among the most powerful––are those in the Biden regime who currently occupy the White House?
Very unfortunately, many of them are apostate Jews…you know, the species that has replaced Judaism with their own fetishistic, cult-like religion of Social Justice––a cult that worships at the altar of political correctness, multiculturalism, moral relativism, and the convoluted and racist construct of intersectionality.
And all of them are Democrats, including a huge number of elected members of the U.S. Congress! We have all witnessed the ferocious Jew hatred and abhorrence of Israel vomited out on a regular basis by the growing number of racist Democrats in the U.S. Congress, aka “the Squad” of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Cori Bush (D-MO), Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Jamaal Bowman (NY), and Ilhan Omar (D-MN), et al––the list gets longer every day.
Read the rest at this link….lots of pictures to go with the narrative:
https://www.thepostemail.com/2022/06/10/hear-o-israel-how-do-i-hate-thee/
According to Francisco, its all politics, an attempt to maintain power and suppress the little guy.
Freud also asked the same question. After all he was living in Nazi Germany in the thirties and was torn between the German and Jewish enlightenment and the growth of Nazi Germany. In Moses and Monotheism which he wrote, I think he postulated that the Jews were rejected because they introduced God to the world and the world wanted no part in it.
I don’t think I expressed this as well as I should have. Perhaps our intellectual sleuths can follow this up.and explore his theories of antisemitism for us.
Freud’s Disavowed Theory of Antisemitism
Erich Fromm, also fled Germany in the thirties and had much to say about antisemitism.
Deborah Lipstadt has just been appointed to lead the fight against antisemitism.. You might want to read, Deborah Lipstadt vs. “The Oldest Hatred”
No doubt she is right about it being incurable. Nevertheless, it must be controlled as best we can.
Jews are perceived everywhere as aliens, regardless of how hard they try to get away from their Jewishness, try to fit in and be better natives of their Diaspora countries than the natives themselves.
I think there is something irrational about it, and this is tied in with the Jews accepting Torah at Sinai as one people which marked every Jew as different from everybody else.
This is why everyone senses it subconsciously and perceives the Jews as aliens, and no one like people who are not like them.
Jews are also, very irritatingly, held to a higher standard than everybody else, possibly for the same reason.
So, it doesn’t make much sense to look for the reasons of the Jew hatred because the real cause is irrational and something to support it can always be found or invented.
Edgar, you said,
You are absolutely correct; however, Ted was looking for reasons for the historical collective persecution of Jews. Ultimately, people who persecute Jews (and Christians, for that matter) actually have a beef against God. It’s essentially a case of covetousness: The Jews have something the rest of the world does not have: a living connection with the Creator of the Universe. Some examples:
1. Cain made a sacrifice to God that was not accepted; but Abel’s sacrifice was accepted; so Cain killed Abel. Cain’s line died in the Deluge; but Abel’s line continued, as it were, through his replacement Seth, from whom come the Jews.
2. Abraham, Isaac and Jacob were blessed by God, because of Abraham’s special relationship through faith; and their neighbors (Pharaoh, Ahimelech, Laban and others) coveted the things with which God had blessed them.
3. Mordecai bowed down and worshipped God, but withheld that honor from Haman — who became envious, and conspired to kill Mordecai.
On a light note, but an apt comparison, Tommy Smothers used to complain to his brother Dickey, “Mom always liked you better!”
https://search.brave.com/images?origin=search&q=smuthers%20brothers
I am glad that you make a quote of Francisco Gil-White . His http://www.hirhome.com is a must read . He was fired from Pennsylvania University for being pro-Israel and pro-Serbia in 2004 .
@MICHAEL-
Jews may have a “collective” relationship with HaShem, however, we are taught that we have a personal relationship with our Creator.
There are several stories in the Talmud where people are arguing, even berating, and discussing issues with HaShem.
I am a Christian. For me, the “crux” of world history is the “crux” of Jesus Christ. Before Jesus conquered death for me, I had no hope of knowing Melech HaOlam.
Jews have had a collective relationship with God, and with the rest of humanity, which not many would envy. Nevertheless, they DO have such a relationship, which means they have a knowledge of the living God. That knowledge comes with a price.
I don’t think that there is a one-size-fits-all explanation for anti-semitism, but if I had to give only one, it would be the diaspera. Being a people set apart, in the midst of anothers’ society, inevitably makes you a target for exploitation and scapegoating. This is why Zionism and the nation of Israel are so important.