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Noah Otte's avatar

This will be my second go at this comment as my first one I felt lacked nuance. What is the cause of antisemitism? I think it has many different causes. The first one is jealousy. The Jews no matter where they’ve gone, have always been a successful middleman minority. Second, they are viewed as being omnipresent and behind every evil and catastrophe one can imagine. They are simultaneously capitalists and communists. They are blamed for the JFK assassination, 9/11, the sinking of the Titanic, the invention of the atom bomb, and the assassination of Charlie Kirk. They are seen as both subhuman inferiors but yet as also as brilliant and scheming masterminds. Third, they are seen as controlling all things financial and to love money. This goes back to the Middle Ages when Jews worked as moneylenders and tax collectors. Some of the few jobs they were allowed to have that weren’t closed to them. Fourth, Christians and Muslims often view Jews as heretics who won’t accept the one true faith. Lastly, the misunderstanding of the term “the Chosen people.” Many often think that when the Jews say this they are saying they are better than everyone else. But this is not the case. By “God’s chosen people” it is rather meant that God has a special plan for them that they would be led back and restored to their homeland after thousands of years of living in a diaspora and in exile. These five points I believe are where hatred for the Jews stems from: jealousy, scapegoating, stereotypes, religious dogma, and misconceptions.

The hard left and far-left’s alliance with Islamofacism is not at all surprising but it is puzzling as Hamas, Hezbollah, The Houthis, Al-Qaeda, ISIS, and Boko Haram wouldn’t hesitate to execute them on the spot when they got the chance. Progressives and leftists should be expelled from the Democratic Party. It’s funny that the hard and far-left would team up with Jihadists who believe women are chattel, abortion is a sin, LGBTQ+ people should be executed on spot if discovered, that black people are inferior, Jews and Christians are apostates who should be murdered, that practicing open slavery, dowries, honor killings, child marriage, animal sacrifices, and polygamy is fine, and abuses and neglects disabled people. I don’t get that! They do realize right all these Islamist groups worship Adolf Hitler and the Nazis and spend all their free time reading Mein Kampf. Are they aware of how local Arabs collaborated with the Nazis and their Italian allies during WWII? They aware that both secular and religious Arab political parties were inspired by the Nazis? The Muslim Brotherhood for instance was directly funded by the Third Reich. The Ba’athist Parties in Iraq and Syria were both inspired by the Nazis as well.

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NSaustin's avatar

I've asked myself for years why the Jew hatred throughout history? Could it be that the Jewish people have been such a successful culture that some are resentful and want to take what they have? In Germany before WWII, many Jews were powerful in terms of business/banking and trade. Did Hitler believe he had to take that away to rule? Also, in Israel the Jews have been quite prosperous and democratic--the only democratic culture in the middle east. Anyway, my theory such as it is :-)

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