What’s behind the surge in Antisemitism?

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1. Ref Vivarto – Yates the Irish poet of the Independence generation commented acidly that you may become an atheist but you remain a Catholic.

2. Superb survey of several politcal problems and subtleties that could be teased out further for countermeasures. Meanwhile two points.

   1) It is worth republicising repeatedly as a warning that what happens to Jews this decade happens to others shortly after – especially in these modern electronic times. Taking aim at the noisier and fanatical Moslems remember the Spanish Jews were expelled in 1492 – when Columbus sailed the Ocean blue [on a grant from the confiscated wealth] and a century later in a series of three decrees finalising in 1608 the Moriscos – the Spanish Moslems – were also expelled. That these two expulsions did nothing for the Spanish economy is beside the point tha they happened for emotional and ideological NON- economic reasons. If the Moslem stirring of the Antisemitic pot in the name of Palestine expels Jews then the next in the queue for a bashing are on short odds the Moslem community in the West.

   2) Setting aside any exact and lawyer proof or academic definition, when faced with a perplexing phenomenon and mixed motive human misbehaviour then carefully analyse what it is doing and take action accordingly. Antisemitism like most other bigotries is, “Kick the cat politics,” It is a means of distracting a lot of discontents and discontented so that they do not turn against vested interests. Tsar Alexander III with the advice of his former tutor whom he made the Director of the Holy Synod (the Russian Church Commission) deliberately passed the May laws which are principally about depriving Jews of credit to set out to divert discontent at industrialisation and urbanisation to the Jews. Hitler’s Antisemitism before he attained power attracted cabaret ridicule but in power he used it to blame Jews for everything German governent could not manage – like blaming evil fairies in medieval folklore as glimpsed in the Grimm’s “Household Tales” as originally published. In Britain Enoch Powell’s “Rivers of blood ” speech against coloured immigration was a ploy to capture the leadership of the Tory Party and become prime minister by capturing Labour voters among those allegedly losing their jobs or rented homes to immigrants. The Corbyn and general “Left” flirt with Islam since the 1973 YK War if not the 1967 War is connected to the search for a political crowbar to bring down “capitalism” and so create a situation in which the “proletarian revolution” can create a socialist World. This fallaciously misses the fact that most proletarians wish to climb the social ladder to skilled jobs then professional jobs and house ownership.

3. Also, Mellanie is confusing being observant and being a part of Israelite (Jewish) nation.
   British Jews may be observant, but they are in denial of being a part of the Jewish nation.

4. You can change from post-Impressionism to Fauvism to Expressionism, to Cubism, but if your parents are Jewish you will never stop being Jewish.

5. Melanie,
   Please drop one word from your vocabulary:
   “Judaism”.
   There is no such thing.
   There is the Jewish nation.
   Just like there are the Russian, Chinese, Italian, English, Danish, or Korean nations.
   But there is no Russism, Chinism, Italism, Anglism, Danism, or Koreanism.
   alcoholism
   autism
   parkinsonism
   idiotism
   communism
   nazism
   feminism
   cretinism
   masochism
   sadism
   creationism

   We are ISRAELITES, we are mislabeled as “Jews” we can live with that, but please don’t make “Judaists” out of us.

   When we stand up as Israelites, or even “Jews” (meaning Judeans), we have a right to protest racism against us.

   Otherwise judaISM does sound like yet another ideology, that can be fought against. Then there indeed is equivalence between “Islamophobia” and antisemitism understood as “anti-judaISM”.

   Nations have right to independent nation states.
   Ideologies and religions don’t have such right.

   If we are just judaISTS, we don’t deserve our own land anymore than Southern Baptists or the 7-th Day Adventist, do.