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Posted on 04/28/2024 5:30:26 PM PDT by MtnClimber
It was a surprise to many that Jew-hatred is big on campuses these days. Explanations are few and far between about where the ugly idea comes from.
Is it about a belief that Jews have all the money and political power like the lunatic fringe, the Klan, and LaRouchies claim? Not that anyone but a weirdo (and Rep. Ilhan Omar) would embrace that. Those are the views of freaks.
The antisemitism now seen is of a more slippery variety, the kind that claims that Zionism is racism, Israelis are the 'real' Nazis, or Apartheid practitioners, and every bad act of other characters in recent history. Suddenly, and however improbable, it's now pinned on the Jews. Corollary to this are the claims among the campus elite that they don't hate Jews, only Zionists, a distinction without a difference, and a self-justification that falls apart increasingly frequently.
So what's happening? One thing is the basic jealousy factor which is often directed at Jews, whose Israel has made the desert bloom and is constantly a source of innovation and advances, as George Gilder and Eric Hoffer have noted in their previous work.
But John Dilulio at City Journal found something else:
As the old saying goes, an explanation is the place where the mind comes to rest. But if we dig deeper, might we find an inverse relationship between religious commitments and anti-Semitism, such that a decline in religion begets a rise in anti-Semitism?
A suggestive study released last year might lead one to consider that possibility. In “From the Death of God to the Rise of Hitler,” published in the Journal of Economic Literature, economists Sasha O. Becker and Hans-Joachim Voth subjected diverse datasets to cutting-edge statistical analyses to test whether Germans who lived in robustly Christian communities...
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
The left are the NAZIS. They call you that because of projection. Never forget that.
Correct. If one wants to explain the rise of antisemitism today - look at history.
Look at Nazi Germany.
Exactly.
Yes, the reason we are seeing anti Israel 🇮🇱 protests 🪧 is because of unchurched youths.
Yes, that’s true, sadly.
They only are exposed to one worldview, the worst possible one.
Too many atheists and agnostics have reproduced and thrown their children into Hillary’s village-a place full of dumbed down, rewritten history and anti-parental, anti-American propaganda.
” Is the unchurching of young people behind the strange new rise of antisemitism on campus? “
I say no. We see younger Evangelicals also taking an increasingly hostile response to the way Israel is conducting this war.
I think it comes from the schools, and the way all history and current events courses are taught thru a framework of Racialized conflict where the Whites are always the Imperialist, Colonialist Villains and the nonWhites are always the innocent victims.
So if that is the only mode of analysis, looking at the Gaza war, the Jews look like the White Oppressors and the Palistinians the Non-White victims.
(and they deliberately put the most swarthy looking Palestinian casualties on video to make the point.)
No, jew haters will be jew haters, as always
The Jew was hated all through time.
It’s merely in recent times and especially post WWII where most folks no longer saw it like that.
Especially in the US where you have a bad public education system and major parts of history are deleted out of political correctness, many folks don’t even realize that this hate for the Jew was even in the US.
The hate for the Jew:
1. They probably should not have demanded that Pilot execute Jesus. Killing ones prophet and son of God kind of dampens a relationship.
2. Usery isn’t even a word in the English language anymore. But it’s a sin and charging interest used to be seen no different than if someone were a pimp. Christians generally didn’t work with money because it was filthy, dirty... The Jews did that, and they charged interest.
3. With their own language, their own culture, never really intermarrying and assimilating all that much, they were their own people and easily made into the bad guy regardless of what it is. You could have a plague and someone will blame the Jew.
But today it’s all different.
These kids are stupid and know little about anything, except what’s on TV and social media. The Palestinians have been extremely talented in exploiting the media to their advantage. Furthermore, the Arab and Muslim media is fairly influential, and even within the Western media you have a lot of editors, journalists, etc that are Arab or Muslim. The dummies protesting today are simply airheads told to feel a certain way.
From what I’ve seen, the vast majority of these protesters seem to be female.
Unchurching wouldn’t explain this particular dynamic.
The true war is Spiritual.
These suckers who buy into antisemitism are playing right into the devil’s hand.
The female demonstrators are more emotionally unstable and probably easier to manipulate. Their shrieking in videos shows this.
When a person does not have a faith (as with most churches/synagogues) then they inherently search out a substitute “faith” that supplies them with,
1. some “answers” (no matter how evil or false, people need answers - it is the way we are wired)
2. a feeling of belonging to a group (another human need)
3. pathways they can pursue that make them feel like they are useful for some larger cause or purpose (like, as we can see, anti-American “Useful Idiots” in communist terminology or “Hitler Youth” gangs in Nazi parlance —— all of which can be viewed by a “lost soul” individual as serving some larger cause or purpose (it matters not a whit that the Fakestinian or commmunist or Nazi “causes” are as evil as Satan — it is the feeling of belonging and “doing something with others” that is fulfilled by these young folks making such fools of themselves on campus and on the public roadways of Amerika today).
the “purpose” or cause doesn’t matter, as long as it exists and they can fool themselves into thinking it is worth their while
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Leftists tend to not mingle. They stay in their cloistered enclaves. They’ve shown outright disdain and hostility for anyone who is against their groupthink.
I worked in NYC for a LONG time. I generally met and knew all sorts of people - different races, religions, etc. I had familiarity with these folks, and respect for them. As such, I didn’t have a caricature-like stereotype of Jewish, etc. people. I didn’t think everyone Jewish was like Seinfeld.
Deplorables may be white, on balance, and Christian, on balance, but we are not isolationists like leftists. We work for a living, go to Church, and meet a wide swath of humanity. We probably even have a good laugh about stereotypes with our black, Jewish, and _____ friends.
However, I suspect most of these radicals on campus NEVER met someone who was Jewish AND religious. They may have met Jewish people but they weren’t religious or identified with their heritage. They may have been outright hostile to customs, tradition, and even Israel.
These leftist kids, therefore, see Jewish people who ARE religious as NOT like them. Since leftists tend to dehumanize people who are unlike them, they see religious Jewish people AND Israelis as subhuman.
Exactly. Progressive Leftists are fully embracing Fascism. They are making the US look like Germany in 1939
Take you children to church with you. Kneel down as a family and pray every night.
This will then turn itself around.
If you go farther back in history, that was NOT the case in Ancient Rome.
When Shakespeare wrote THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, he had never known ANYONE who was Jewish, as England had thrown ALL of the Jews out in 1290; which was about 300 years earlier!
And the earliest dates of Jews recorded as living in England was 1070.
Because of the Catholic Church's teaching, there was JEW HATRED as well as BLOOD LIBEL, which was akin to the WITCH TRIALS in many ways.
By the time of the Victorian Era, many nations had done away with a lot of "Jew Hatred" and denial of their rights; though some, such as the Russian Empire NEVER did get rid of it. And it was in Russia, that the infamous propaganda garbage: THE ELDERS OF ZION was written, published and distributed. And THAT piece of filth was bought my Henry Ford and copies were places in ALL of his cars glove compartments!
The KKK, always HATED and went after not only blacks, but Jews, Catholics, and foreign born LEGAL immigrants!
And today's schools, whether the most expensive ELITE ones to the absolute bottom of the barrel ones,have NOT taught FACTUAL HISTORY for at least the past 50 years!
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