Antisemitism is exploding in major cities and college campuses across the United States and around the world. Jewish students received credible death threats at Cornell University while the University of Michigan’s student newspaper published an anonymous piece defending the Hamas terror attacks.
There seems to be a perpetual sickness that develops in people where their perceived social status cannot be secured in the presence of other people that appear better than them. They eventually grow to a mob that throbs with this common impulse to destroy those other people to neutralize the "threat." The play is exactly opposite. The sick are the threat.
My only disagreement with your post is the "other people that appear better than them" part. I would rephrase it to say, "other people that appear different from them." Whether that difference is skin color, religion, ethnicity, political affiliation, culture, economic status, or simply a difference of opinion, the group-think types form mobs and seek ways to destroy those who are different. Today's cancel culture is a prime example of how this starts; Auschwitz is a prime example of where it ends.
Okay, but that does not explain liberal Jews adopting antisemitic positions.
I agree with you and the existence of this fundamental racial, ethnic, cultural tribalism; however, I think we are looking at something that transcends those simple more primitive impulses. Just look at the left spewing this level of hate for Jews and Israel and how accepting they are of all races, ethnicities and cultures... as long as they subscribe to their same ideology and complement each other in their beliefs.
I think antisemitism goes back further to the book of Exodus when the Egyptians made the Jews slaves. Later on in Babylon (book of Esther) Haman conned the king into signing a decree to have the Jews exterminated. The Jews as God’s chosen people have been vilified for a long, long time.
This piece does help connect a lot of dots for folks like myself, who went to public schools in the south and Southern Baptist churches on Sundays. I don’t recall learning much about the plight of the Jews in history class, save WW2, but I vividly remember the passionate defense of Israel in my Sunday school class.
Having come from this background, I’ve never understood how much of the Klan’s rhetoric included the Jews in their hate speech. Sure, many white supremacists are Neo-Nazis, but a large portion of the KKK, going back to the turn of the nineteenth century, were Pentecostals and Southern Baptists, who are taught that the Jews are God’s chosen people.
Maybe it’s on account of the Klan’s blatant racism. But wait: Jews are fair-skinned. So what gives?
Thank you so much for the wonderful explanation of the plight of the Jewish people.
Unless you are a world history buff like I am not , you would have thought that the biggest hatred of Israel came from Hitler. Thank you . I pray for Israel.
There seems to be a perpetual sickness that develops in people where their perceived social status cannot be secured in the presence of other people that appear better than them. They eventually grow to a mob that throbs with this common impulse to destroy those other people to neutralize the "threat." The play is exactly opposite. The sick are the threat.
My only disagreement with your post is the "other people that appear better than them" part. I would rephrase it to say, "other people that appear different from them." Whether that difference is skin color, religion, ethnicity, political affiliation, culture, economic status, or simply a difference of opinion, the group-think types form mobs and seek ways to destroy those who are different. Today's cancel culture is a prime example of how this starts; Auschwitz is a prime example of where it ends.
Okay, but that does not explain liberal Jews adopting antisemitic positions.
I agree with you and the existence of this fundamental racial, ethnic, cultural tribalism; however, I think we are looking at something that transcends those simple more primitive impulses. Just look at the left spewing this level of hate for Jews and Israel and how accepting they are of all races, ethnicities and cultures... as long as they subscribe to their same ideology and complement each other in their beliefs.
Thank you!
I think antisemitism goes back further to the book of Exodus when the Egyptians made the Jews slaves. Later on in Babylon (book of Esther) Haman conned the king into signing a decree to have the Jews exterminated. The Jews as God’s chosen people have been vilified for a long, long time.
This piece does help connect a lot of dots for folks like myself, who went to public schools in the south and Southern Baptist churches on Sundays. I don’t recall learning much about the plight of the Jews in history class, save WW2, but I vividly remember the passionate defense of Israel in my Sunday school class.
Having come from this background, I’ve never understood how much of the Klan’s rhetoric included the Jews in their hate speech. Sure, many white supremacists are Neo-Nazis, but a large portion of the KKK, going back to the turn of the nineteenth century, were Pentecostals and Southern Baptists, who are taught that the Jews are God’s chosen people.
Maybe it’s on account of the Klan’s blatant racism. But wait: Jews are fair-skinned. So what gives?
Thank you so much for the wonderful explanation of the plight of the Jewish people.
Unless you are a world history buff like I am not , you would have thought that the biggest hatred of Israel came from Hitler. Thank you . I pray for Israel.
An excellent description of the earthly basis for antisemitism. Underlying that is a dire wickedness on the spiritual plane.
Yes. Agree. Would like to hear that said. Satan attempting to break the covenant of God to His chosen ones.
Right. U of MIchigan published an "anonymous. Afraid to reveal themselves and sneak terrorist attacks. Cowardly from the get go.
I'm about ready for Israel to turn Palestine into glass.