Who Would Hide a Jew if Nazis Took Over America?
By: Dennis Prager
As usual Dennis Prager has some deep and important thoughts for us to consider. His article is right on about everything. Particularly when it comes to secular progressives and when it comes to conformity.
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Source: AP Photo/Thibault Camus
There is something about most Jews that few non-Jews know: We Jews often ask ourselves if a non-Jew in our lives would hide us in the event of a Nazi-like outbreak.
I don't know if young Jews think about this, but nearly all Jews who grew up in the decades following the Holocaust often wondered: Would this non-Jew hide me?
I have thought about this all my life because the question, "Who hid Jews?" is one of the most important questions anyone -- Jew or non-Jew -- needs to think about. That question is far more important than "Who didn't hide Jews?" because great goodness is rarer than great evil and even rarer than simple moral cowardice. Yet, a vast number of books have been written attempting to understand evil, while relatively few have been written attempting to explain good.
The reason for this is simple: Since the Enlightenment, i.e., since the decline of Judeo-Christian thought, most secular people have believed, and nearly all secular thought has been predicated on, the reality-denying idea that human nature is essentially good. As a result, scholars regard good as the norm and evil as the aberration. So, they study evil far more than good.
That is why the question, "Who rescued Jews?" should be of overwhelming importance to humanity as a whole. If people are interested in increasing good and in decreasing evil, what question could be more important?
A lifetime of study of this question has led me to the following answers:
No. 1: Sam and Pearl Oliner, two professors of sociology at California State University at Humboldt, were the authors of one of the most highly regarded works on altruism, "The Altruistic Personality." The book was the product of the Oliners' lifetime of study of non-Jewish rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust. They themselves had been hidden by non-Jews in Poland, and I had the privilege of interviewing them.
I asked Sam Oliner, "Knowing all you now know about who rescued Jews during the Holocaust, if you had to return as a Jew to Poland and you could knock on the door of only one person in the hope that they would rescue you, would you knock on the door of a Polish lawyer, a Polish doctor, a Polish artist or a Polish priest?"
Without hesitation, he responded, "Polish priest." And his wife immediately added, "I would prefer a Polish nun."
I should note that neither had a religious agenda, as both were secular Jews.
Of course, most Christians in Europe failed the moral test of the Holocaust, but so did nearly all secular intellectuals. And few Christians today deny this. But any honest person would still bet on a priest before a doctor, artist, lawyer or professor. It is one reason I believe that the decline of Judeo-Christian religions is a calamity: We will produce fewer people who will do great good.
No. 2: Another study of rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust offered four characteristics of rescuers. I read this book about 40 years ago and I do not remember the name of the book or three of the four characteristics. But I remember one of them because it struck me as an original insight and because it made so much sense. According to this study, individuals who were considered "eccentric" prior to the war were disproportionately represented among those who hid Jews.
Now, why would that be? Why would people regarded as eccentric be more likely to risk torture and death to hide a member of a persecuted group they weren't part of?
The answer is obvious: Eccentrics are, by definition, people who march to the beat of their own drummer, who are nonconformists, and who don't seek social approval.
That should give us some major insights into who would save Jews -- or any other group targeted for death (such as landowners in communist countries) -- if our society were taken over by Nazis or communists.
If this theory about eccentrics is correct, it should give us pause.
When I observe Americans, Canadians, Australians, New Zealanders, and, for that matter, the citizens of most countries at this time, this observation about who would risk their lives to hide a Jew leaves me pessimistic with regard to how any of these groups would act under a Nazi or communist regime.
We have seen herdlike behavior and an unquestioning obedience to authority that few expected to witness in previously free countries such as the English-speaking ones. Worse, we have seen unquestioning obedience to irrational authority .
Wearing masks outdoors is irrational. Yet a vast number of Americans have, sheeplike, obeyed irrational government demands to wear them. Telling people who have had COVID-19 to take a vaccine against COVID-19, when natural antibodies are longer lasting and more effective, not to mention safer, than a vaccine is irrational. Telling people who have been vaccinated or had COVID-19 to wear masks is irrational. Prolonged lockdowns of healthy people are irrational.
Yet tens of millions of Americans are unquestioningly obeying irrational orders and castigating those resisting or even questioning them.
It was "eccentric" Christian pastors who kept their churches open and an "eccentric" Catholic priest who sued the state of California for denying him his constitutional right to minister to his flock -- and who prevailed against the state. Except for these clergymen and a handful of eccentric restaurant owners, almost all other Americans obeyed the state's irrational orders.
That is frightening because people who obey irrational orders and despise those who do not are precisely the type of people who didn't hide Jews.
So, then, here are two questions for American Jews to ponder:
If a Nazi-like doctrine took over America, and you could knock on the door of someone who obeyed all government orders regarding masks, regardless of their rationality, or someone who questioned government authority and obeyed few or none of its mask orders -- on whose door would you knock? If you were given the choice between knocking on the door of an atheist professor and the door of an Evangelical pastor or a Catholic priest -- on whose door would knock?
Dennis Prager is a nationally syndicated radio talk-show host and columnist. His latest book, published by Regnery in May 2019, is "The Rational Bible," a commentary on the book of Genesis. His film, "No Safe Spaces," was released to home entertainment nationwide on September 15, 2020. He is the founder of Prager University and may be contacted at dennisprager.com.
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Gary Varvel | Sep 14, 2021 | Cartoons
Some governors need to be gotten out of the way and I don't give a rat's ass if they are D, R, or I. Deathsantis and Abbot top the list.
How do you propose to do that? They were elected by their states and they and their AG’s are a constitutional check on federal power.
What an oxymoron of a question by Putin's puppet Dennis Prager.
I know who wouldn't hide Jews from Nazis. That would be Nazis, Ku Kluxers, White Nationalist, the Three Percenters, Soverign Citizens, bulk of the MAGA hoard and the remainder of America's fetid underbelly.
It is from the religious observing working and middle class that those who would protect Jews or another group targeted by a fascist communist or nazi dystopian government.
This seed is a steaming pile of dog-do propaganda, and you know it. Were it not, you wouldn't have posted it.
And PS: You are the last person who should preach about what kind of person would slam the door in the face of someone truly in need. You make it clear every day that you would shove to the ground a person in need just to have a better shot at spitting in the face of a little old lady wearing a Biden t-shirt.
Religion has nothing to do with anything concerning the dweller in Mar-a-Lago. Cut the crap.
Theo owner and residents of that fine place are not in any way the topic of the seed here. Please refrain from any additional off topic de railing attempts.
Everything is about that--------------------dweller.
Actually, no. In the real world we don’t compulsively obsess over prior campaigns and past Presidents nor let them live rent free in our minds. It’s time to get over it and let him go. Now, back onto the real subject of the seeded article here.
That's coming from someone who is constantly promoting the disgraced criminal as the Republican presidential candidate for 2024.
When you "let him go", and after his prosecutions result in much deserved convictions, we will, too.
I would hide any Jewish person in a heartbeat if need be.
Another idiotic fever dream from right wing America.
Prager is exactly right. Yet again, as he always is.
Prager is a reactionary propagandist and he is never right.
Prager is an alleged American in the service of Putin's autocracy.
He’s a highly educated intellectual person who is a deep thinker and advocates for a mainstream conservative point of view. His opinions are shared by a great many ordinary Americans.
The only people outside of the USA that he’s done anything for is the Jews of the Soviet Union. He spoke up for them after visiting there.
Prager is a right-wing propagandist, pure and simple.
If Prager represents a current "mainstream conservative point of view", that's a sad commentary on contemporary conservatism.
What’s sad is the typical secular progressive lefts intolerance for any actual conservative pundit, writer, politician.
We will unceasingly mock and laugh in the faces of lying, right-wing, extremist propagandists like Prager.
That’s what we do to lying propagandists of extreme progressive liars daily including the branch covidians and their patron saint Fauci and high priestess Houchel.
If that's what you do, you certainly do it ineffectively. No one sees anything coming from Trumpist-Fascists except hatred and rage and a constant and steady stream of lies and falsehoods.
Then why are Holocaust survivors in their 90's trying to survive off of 2 dollars a day if he has done so much for the Jewish of the SU? That two dollars has to cover food, medicine, and essentials.
He was helpful in getting many of them out of the Soviet Union to relocate to America or Israel.
It is left wing America that is going to bring about the kind of dystopian future for America that Prager writes about.
No, unlike secular progressives, we Christian conservatives always get it right.
It hasn't happened yet.
It happens all the time every time.
Only in delusional Bizarro world.
The world Joe Biden resides in.
The Trump supporter in the "Camp Auschwitz" T-shirt who invaded the Capitol during the Trump Insurrection on January 6th wouldn't be hiding any Jews.
The Proud Boy Trump supporter in the "6 Million Wasn't Enough" T-shirt wouldn't be hiding any Jews.
The Nazis in Charlottesville screaming "Jews will not replace us" that Trump called "very fine people" wouldn't be hiding any Jews.
All those in the pictures are not true Christians nor to they reflect any of the mainstream working and middle class Heartland Americans.
It's not for me to say who is a true Christian. You're the one on here who takes it upon himself to pronounce who is a true Christian or not. And, they definitely do not represent the vast, overwhelming majority of working and middle class Americans, more of whom are Democrats than Republicans, of course. Or, Americans of all classes for that matter. What they (the depicted neo-Nazis and anti-Semites) are, however, is Trump supporters. Surely a minority, but Trump supporters nevertheless. Why do you suppose that is?
obviously, and they're all trumpsters ...
one picture shows a traitor flag, a nazi flag, and a teabag flag... add a trump flag and it's 4 of a kind...
And they're all made in China purchased through Trumpian merchandising schemes.
If Trump were a deck of cards, it would be all jokers.
Seems that the so called Christians in Germany during Hitler were not the ones to ask to save Jews.
Christianity and the Holocaust
Introduction
The vast majority of Germans belonged to a Christian church during the Nazi era. In 1933 there were 40 million Protestants, 20 million Catholics, and small numbers of people adhering to other Christian traditions. The German Evangelical Church (the largest Protestant church) and the Roman Catholic church were pillars of German society and played an important role in shaping people’s attitudes and actions vis-à-vis National Socialism, including anti-communism, nationalism, traditional loyalty to governing authorities (particularly among Protestants), and the convergence of Nazi antisemitism with widespread and deep-seated anti-Jewish prejudice.
Within the German Evangelical Church the pro-Nazi “German Christian” ( Deutsche Christen ) movement emerged in the early 1930s. It attempted to fuse Christianity and National Socialism and promoted a “racially-pure” church by attacking Jewish influences on Christianity. This attempt to nazify the primary Protestant church provoked a backlash, leading to the formation of the Confessing Church ( Bekennende Kirche ) in 1934. Both the Confessing and the “German Christian” movements remained part of the German Evangelical Church. The Confessing Church movement condemned Nazified theology and the attempt to nationalize the church, but it limited its protest to maintaining the theological integrity and autonomy of the Protestant churches—not protesting the legitimacy of the Nazi state itself. Although there were individual resisters, many mainstream Protestant and Catholic church leaders made numerous compromises with Nazi authorities and supported many of the Nazi measures throughout the period.
Excellent comment, Kavika.
You should add that US Christians didn't do well when it came to helping the Jews.
Does the St. Louis right a bell?
A typical democrat failure…
So no coherent answer, not surprising.
No, an isolationist view held by the country at the time, and a harsh quota system that FDR had to deal with.
btw, all those Cuban refugees that you were so eager to let in, were heartless about the St. Louis and turned them away after taking a lot of money from the refugees for Visas that were supposed to let them in. It was a most disgusting time in history.
You expected otherwise?
As with Trump University, there is no such place as Prager University. Both are shams.
As the daughter of a Holocaust survivor, I can tell you that the question all Jews ask themselves is NOT " if a non-Jew in our lives would hide us in the event of a Nazi-like outbreak." It's "Could the Holocaust happen here?" and of course we know it can. But not for the reasons that Prager says, like mask or vaccine mandates, but because it actually took root here during WWII. I grew up in a town that was Long Island's headquarters for the Bund, the American Nazi Party, and lived almost every day of my early life being called a Kike. We know Lindberg was a Nazi Sympathizer and on the evening of Feb 20, 1939, there was a huge rally at Madison Square Garden of actually American Nazis saluting the swastika, while singing the Star Spangled Banner, on the birthday of Geroge Washington.
Nazi storm troopers fill the aisles as the crowd sings "The Star-Spangled Banner" at the opening of the German American Bund's rally at Madison Square Garden.
A color guard holding American flags and a banner inscribed with the Nazi swastika stands before an immense portrait of George Washington at the German American Bund's rally at Madison Square Garden.
And they are still here and being supported by a former communist nation which has reverted to autocracy under the guidance of former KGB agent, Putin.
For an excellent analysis of what is going on in Putin's Russia, and in our own country, I highly recommend "The Road to Unfreedom" by Prof. Timothy Snyder. It is possibly the most important book I have read in years. I have read it several times and always learn more every time I do.
There were communists in America too. Neither fascist authoritarian group had any real chance of taking power here.
They thought the same thing in Germany. The Jews had risen to very high positions under the Kaiser. The Nazis first went after the communists and then used that to go after the Jews. The Jews never saw it coming. How could they? They had been such an important part of German life before that.
So don't say it couldn't happen here. It sure could.
Yes, Frank Zappa was wrong. It CAN happen here. In Canada, and I'm sure also in the USA, Jewish students are harrassed on university campuses where antisemitism is flourishing - I have been corresponding with the head of Hillel Ontario, and have been made aware of what a change has happened from when I was a university student. Jew-hatred is growing...and The Squad are helping it to happen.
One could argue that Germany, before the Nazis, was the best European country for Jews to live in.
So don't say it couldn't happen here. It sure could.
Anti-Semitic words easily turn into actions.
Very important comment, Perrie.
Not a Trump supporter.
Not MTG...
I think you should delete this seed.
"So, then, here are two questions for American Jews to ponder:
If a Nazi-like doctrine took over America, and you could knock on the door of someone who obeyed all government orders regarding masks, regardless of their rationality, or someone who questioned government authority and obeyed few or none of its mask orders -- on whose door would you knock? If you were given the choice between knocking on the door of an atheist professor and the door of an Evangelical pastor or a Catholic priest -- on whose door would knock?"
I love it! I know this question was posed to American Jews, but I am going to attempt to answer for those who I was once acquainted with:
The first door they would Knock on would be the Catholic Priest. As I recall, there was the belief that the Archangel Michael led all forces against evil. Thus that door would be open.
Second would be the Evangelical Pastor who could be depended on to take the chance, at least for a while.
I believe the athiest professor would be completely avoided.
Here is the best part. After the Nazi-like regime had been defeated, I have to assume that American Jews would go right back to voting for the very same leftists who created such a state. The liberal culture of one's upbringing defies reason for some.
Vic, are you aware that Pope Pius never spoke out against the Nazis during WWII. That Polish nationals, who were overwhelmingly Catholic, were active in helping the Nazis clear Jews from Poland? That even after the war, they were killing Jews after they got repatriated back into Poland? That my grandfather had to sleep with an ax under his bed to protect himself from his neighbors.... the very neighbors that Prager is saying will might help Jews. Now please don't get me wrong, there were some people of all faiths or non at all, that saved Jews, but it was the individual's choice and most went along with the program set forth by the Nazis, hence why Martin Niemöller's wrote his famous poem, "They came for the Jews". Btw, you seem to have forgotten about the Spanish Inquistion, which is how my Grandfather's family ended up in England. They were chased out of Spain.
As for the Evangelical Pastor, it would depend on the denomination. Here in the US, many of them were part of the US Nazi Party during WWII
My upbringing taught me not to trust anyone and to help myself. It taught me to be compassionate to all people, since both my Jewish upbringing and my Indian one, understand what it is like to be treated cruelly and to be wary of those who say they are my friend. Those that I call friends, stand the test of time and come from all walks of life.
I am aware of that, but he certainly didn't speak for Catholics, just as the New York Times which ignored the holocaust, didn't speak for Americans.
That Polish nationals, who were overwhelmingly Catholic, were active in helping the Nazis clear Jews from Poland?
I am aware of that too. That was the Europe of the 30's & 40's.
That even after the war, they were killing Jews after they got repatriated back into Poland? That my grandfather had to sleep with an ax under his bed to protect himself from his neighbors.... the very neighbors that Prager is saying will might help Jews. Now please don't get me wrong, there were some people of all faiths or non at all, that saved Jews, but it was the individual's choice and most went along with the program set forth by the Nazis, hence why Martin Niemöller's wrote his famous poem, "They came for the Jews". Btw, you seem to have forgotten about the Spanish Inquistion, which is how my Grandfather's family ended up in England. They were chased out of Spain.
Yes, I know the history. Why are you picking a fight with me?
As for the Evangelical Pastor, it would depend on the denomination. Here in the US, many of them were part of the US Nazi Party during WWII
That I did not know. Maybe you can show me more on that.
My upbringing taught me not to trust anyone and to help myself. It taught me to be compassionate to all people, since both my Jewish upbringing and my Indian one, understand what it is like to be treated cruelly and to be wary of those who say they are my friend. Those that I call friends, stand the test of time and come from all walks of life.
I think you had a great upbringing. This is not personal. It involves voting patterns.
Btw the places that we are most likely to find Anti-Semitic rhetoric today is within "the squad" and the American left.
I stand by my opinion.
Of course, he did. He is the head of the church. Those Catholics that did hide them defied the Pope and imperiled their lives.
I am not trying to pick a fight with you, but rather set the record straight. This is not an abstract to me. This is what happened to my mother's family.
Not everything has to do with voting patterns.
Jews are well aware of "The Squad". We are also aware of Charlottesville. Antisemitism is alive in both extremes and we know it. Again, one only has to look to history.
Just like the Catholics that get divorced, marry outside their religion, believe in "pro-choice"...etc. IE the majority of American Catholics!
I am not trying to pick a fight with you, but rather set the record straight.
You obviously didn't like my assessment. Why not argue with the point I made?
This is not an abstract to me. This is what happened to my mother's family.
It's not an abstract to me either, I also have a personal interest in it.
Not everything has to do with voting patterns.
I thought it was very relevant to the question.
Jews are well aware of "The Squad". We are also aware of Charlottesville. Antisemitism is alive in both extremes and we know it. Again, one only has to look to history.
It can come from any place Perrie and we must always be on guard and put a stop to it right away.
I don't understand your point here. Are these bad Catholics or just people making individual choices?
What assessment? You made that comment after I wrote this:
I saw no assessment other than you thinking I was trying to pick a fight with you, which I wasn't.
Actually, Poland of today is returning to its roots of the 30s and 40s.
Many Catholics don't follow the Pope regardless of Pope XII's silence on the holocaust or even real stances taken.
What assessment?
The one you seem upset about, namely that American Jews trend left, even when the left stands behind the likes of Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib or the faculty at colleges like CUNY.
I saw no assessment other than you thinking I was trying to pick a fight with you, which I wasn't.
Then why the lecture on the 1940's?
American Jews trend Democrat, not left. There is a difference you know. And in case you missed it, Chuck Schumer was not taking any of the garbage from those women. And my SIL went to Queens College (CUNY) undergrad, and never ran into a facility member that was anti-Semitic. In fact, they have a huge Jewish Studies Dept at the school.
As for the lecture on the 1940's, it was in reaction to who would take in Jews. I was showing you a historic context for that, because you seem to think that it couldn't happen here, or that some groups of people would be upstanding and others wouldn't. It just doesn't hold water to me.
As of July, 2021:
City University of New York (CUNY) professors are leaving the faculty union in droves after it passed a resolution condemning Israel as an "apartheid" state.
The Professional Staff Congress, CUNY’s chapter of the American Federation of Teachers, approved a "Resolution in Support of the Palestinian People" in June. The union "condemns the massacre of Palestinians by the Israeli state" and formally backs the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement. The New York Post reported on July 25 that at least 50 faculty members resigned from the union after the resolution passed, though some professors told the Washington Free Beacon that the number could be more than 100.
The first professor to resign, Jeffrey Lax, told the Free Beacon that the union’s statement is inconsistent because it simultaneously claims that Israel is a "diverse nation state."
"Which one is it? Either you’re a diverse nation state or an apartheid state. They’re talking out of both sides of their mouth," Lax said.
The union’s statement came weeks after Hamas attacked Israel and launched more than 4,000 rockets into the Jewish state, killing several Israeli citizens. The Israeli military’s targeted counterstrikes neutralized several terrorist weapons caches and Hamas leaders.
CUNY has been dogged with accusations of anti-Semitism for years. In June, a pro-Palestinian professor and several students hacked into a Hunter College Zoom lecture and recited anti-Semitic tropes. The CUNY system’s Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy selected anti-Semitic activist Linda Sarsour as its commencement speaker in 2017. Later that year, CUNY awarded a top faculty honor to Beth Baron, a vocal proponent of boycotts targeting the Jewish state.
Jewish professors at CUNY told the Free Beacon that they’ve been subject to attacks from union leadership, colleagues, and students for years. Professors report having their tires slashed, their family photos destroyed, and Israeli flags stolen. University administrators refuse to respond to the professors’ allegations, even though an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission report from February confirmed CUNY has fostered a hostile environment for Jews.
Susan Aranoff, a business professor at Kingsborough Community College, told the Free Beacon that she was refused admission to the Progressive Faculty Caucus because she was Jewish. Members of that group—many of whom also belong to the Professional Staff Congress—excluded Aranoff from email lists and meetings. The professor has had Israeli flags stolen off of her car twice. After the second offense, she decided not to replace the flag to avoid further harassment.
Aranoff considered resigning from the union earlier this spring after American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten claimed Jews were "part of the ownership class" in response to questions about schools reopening during the coronavirus pandemic.
"I myself was ready to resign earlier because Randi Weingarten made such an anti-Semitic statement. It was so shocking," Aranoff told the Free Beacon. "Why in the world did she target Jews?"
Aranoff said she’d feel unsafe walking around Kingsborough’s campus if the system decides to return to in-person learning this fall.
Vandals popped the tires of Kingsborough adjunct business professor Michael Goldstein’s car and desecrated a photo of the professor and his father, the late Leon Goldstein, who served as president of the college for nearly three decades. Goldstein told the Free Beacon that he’s had a public safety officer chaperone him around campus for three years. Goldstein said that pro-Palestinian activist students at Kingsborough have gone so far as to physically attack Jews on and around campus.
"These are students that are agitated and indoctrinated by the faculty at Kingsborough to hate Jews," Goldstein told the Free Beacon.
The number of Jewish students and professors at CUNY is dwindling, according to the professors. CUNY will be a "Jewish-free college and university" in the near future, Goldstein said.
Like their professors, students have been both perpetrators and victims of anti-Semitic attacks.
Mitchell Langbert, an associate business professor at Brooklyn College, told the Free Beacon that students have made anti-Semitic claims, like repeating the trope that Jews control the financial sector and the Federal Reserve. The "unhealthy atmosphere" has led to a sharp decline in the number of Orthodox Jews that attend the college, Langbert said.
Jewish students have told Aranoff that other professors wouldn’t accommodate tests scheduled for religious holidays. One student claimed that she was being stalked and threatened because she was Jewish. Goldstein said that two faculty members once seized a table that Hillel, a campus Jewish group, had set up in the college breezeway to raise money. The professors who commandeered the table allegedly used the spot to raised money for Palestinian refugees.
New York state senator Anna Kaplan (D.) and a group of nearly 1,000 rabbis have issued statements supporting the CUNY professors who left the union.
Like its CUNY chapter, two California chapters of the American Federation of Teachers have also released anti-Semitic statements . United Teachers of Los Angeles and the United Educators of San Francisco called Israel an "apartheid" state and endorsed the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement against Israel in their resolutions.
The Professional Staff Congress’s statement, and similar criticism of the Jewish state, according to Aranoff, often "distort" the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by leaving out crucial historical and political details.
"It's such a distortion through omission," Aranoff said. "It’s outright lying. You don't know where to begin when you get a statement like that."
As for the lecture on the 1940's, it was in reaction to who would take in Jews. I was showing you a historic context for that, because you seem to think that it couldn't happen here, or that some groups of people would be upstanding and others wouldn't. It just doesn't hold water to me.
Fair enough Perrie. To me it does.
Well, that is a sad day for City University of New York. Thank goodness it is not the other CUNY schools. Hopefully, the professors that left will send a message.
Unfortunately, as I've been learning, what has been happening on Canadian campuses is similar. It's reminiscent of the past, think back more than a century ago, the Black Plague was blamed on the Jews, and today the problems caused by the coronavirus have given impetus to antisemites to be more open about their Jew-hatred. No "Gentleman's Agreement" these days keeping it quiet, because it's being implemented today with both barrels blasting.
The strange thing is that antisemitism does not exist in China. In fact Jews are respected due to their similarity in family relationships (respect for elders, importance of education, family loyalty, etc,) and are even admired because of the belief that Jews have superior business acumen and know how to make money. In fact there are multiple books published here about how to run a business like a Jew, that are complimentary, considered beneficial, and are not at all critical. Jews were always welcome in China, as proven by how the Emperor welcomed the Jewish traders who came across the Silk Road 1,000 years ago to Kaifeng where they thrived for at least 500 years until many converted to Confucianism in order to get good government jobs, but I have visited their descendants there myself, and how the refugee Jews were treated in Harbin when pogroms drove them out of Russia (a synagogue still remains there, and a former Israeli President visited the cemetery where his ancestors were buried) and Shanghai welcomed the refugee Jews from Europe without visa requirements to save them from the Nazis - and a synagogue still stands there as well. Jews are not a threat to the CPC, because they do NOT proselytize, are quite limited in number, and keep a low profile.
Yes it was.
You mean the CPC counts them as an asset? I'll give them credit for that.
Comment 11 is extremely insulting to Jewish people. It also represents a complete lack of historical knowledge, a lack of understanding of current reality and/or is nothing more than a propagandistic attempt at historical revisionism.
Of course, there were Christians who hid Jews from the Nazis but that represented a small group.
The fact that the Comment 11 contains such nonsense as "the atheist professor would be completely avoided" and is a pretense at answering on behalf of Jews is more than appalling. The reference to "professor" is in line with the constant railing against academia that some express for propagandistic purposes. Since academia is filled with Jewish professors, many of whom are non-practicing or non-believers, the frequent expressions of hatred for academia coming from right-wing propagandists is definitely a matter of concern to Jews.
It's also a complete load of shit to write that a Nazi-like regime would be created by "leftists". Are any leftists shown in the photos in Comments 4 and 7? NO. While the Soviet Union was not friendly to Jews, following on a long history of sometimes violent anti-Semitism by Christians in Russia, they did not set up gas chambers. The Holocaust was perpetrated by extremist right-wing anti-Semites, the same type that Donald Trump called "very fine people".
The "attempt to answer for those [Jews] who I was once acquainted with" is a failure.
This is very true. My mom's family fled Poland and crossed into Russia to escape the Nazis. When they were asked to join the communist party and refused, they were sent to a Siberian work camp, like a lot of other Russians who refused. Life was brutal, but they were not murdered either.
How so?
Of course, there were Christians who hid Jews from the Nazis but that represented a small group.
Good, end of story
The fact that the Comment 11 contains such nonsense as "the atheist professor would be completely avoided"
Anti-semitism is rampant on campus.
It's also a complete load of shit to write that a Nazi-like regime would be created by "leftists".
Why? All of the modern totalitarian regimes we are forced to co-exist with are leftist regimes.
While the Soviet Union was not friendly to Jews, following on a long history of sometimes violent anti-Semitism by Christians in Russia, they did not set up gas chambers. The Holocaust was perpetrated by extremist right-wing anti-Semites, the same type that Donald Trump called "very fine people".
We are talking about today in America. Which is the party of anti-Semitism?
The "attempt to answer for those [Jews] who I was once acquainted with" is a failure.
Somebody had to say it!
My paternal grandfather came to America when he was 15 from a small village in Belarus before the Russian Revolution to find a new life. He left behind his mother and 8 brothers and sisters. In their village, the Jews and the Christians got along fairly well. He and his family used to write to each other regularly, even after the Communists took control. However, when the Nazis invaded, his family, and the other Jews in their village, were marched out into the forest and shot to death. A couple of his cousins managed to escape and join the partisans. Other than that, only his youngest brother, who was a baby when my grandfather left, had left before the Nazis invaded and went to what was then British Palestine. Neither one knew that the other was alive until the 1960s when a friend of my grandfather visited Israel and met someone with the same last name as ours. My grandfather realized that it was his brother, and went to see him immediately. I have several cousins who were born in Israel and they have all visited us here.
You claim to answer on behalf of Jews, and your answers are NOT what any Jews I know would say. It's merely your own propagandistic effort. Insulting.
Not at all.
"[R]ampant on campus" is a false characterization. However, it is rampant among the right-wing extremist groups that support the Nazi ideology.
Name one that is engaged in anti-Semitic activities. You can't. However, the right-wing authoritarian leaning regimes, such as the Jobbik regime in Hungary, the one that Tucker Carlson adores, do promote anti-Semitism.
Whichever party Marjorie Taylor Greene is a member of.
"It" being lies and propaganda.
As far as I can see, both parties have antisemitism present. While you are egar to point to "The Squad", you seem to forget about Marjorie Taylor Greene, Steve Scalise, Matt Gaetz. As I said, it comes from both sides.
All things are not equal and people should not be voting against their own safety & security.
A lot of bullshit about Jewish people just for him to condemn vaccines and masks....
There was no condemnation of either vaccines or masks, only of big blue government mandates to compel their use over the objections of others. Very nazi fascist like tactic.
I have been hearing a lot of crap lately. This is right up there with it.
It’s time to accept the fact that there are people who will wear masks when there is a legitimate good reason for them to do so and are vaccinated who oppose government mandates to coerce others to do either. I’m one of them.
No surprise there. LOL
You do realize that the whole democratic party voted to fund Israel, and only a few either voted nay or voted present, right? That seems to be missing from the story.
Y'all need to stop conflating anti-semitism with anti-zionism and anti-Israel.
Kind of hard to do when the blame is always laid at Israel's door and never Hamas. It takes two to tango. That being said, you can be critical of a government.
btw, BDS is an anti-Semitic anti-Israel movement as it calls for Israel not to exist. It's in their charter. And the double standard that Israel is held to, compared to all the other Arab nations that have thrown out Jews from their counties is absolutely ridiculous.
But all of this is kind of out of the scope of this article.
It's unfortunate that what you've explained so well is not understood by supposedly intelligent people. It just doesn't matter HOW FAR Israel and respected other voices go to prove the connection, there are still some who refuse to acknowledge the fact of the connection of antisemitism and anti-Israel. I do believe, however, that Israel was never that great at public relations, and many Israelis (I had Israeli clients so I know this) do exhibit a certain arrogance that does not help their image.
Morning Buzz....the only people I have found rather arrogant are the Ultra Orthodox Jews...they have not done themselves any favours here at the moment..decide to hold a gathering the other day of around 100 people while Melbourne is in lock down.
Cops rolled up and the Ultras were running across roofs and jumping over fences to escape..then they started pushing and shoving... they all copped a $5,000 each for their efforts..
The weeks I spent in Israel the average ordinary Israeli are lovely people and I felt perfectly safe there traveling by myself...
Australia has always backed Israel much to many other countries disgust but as per usual we don't give a stuff what they think..
Believe me, shona1, I have NO love for the ultra-Orthodox. It's unfortunate that the Israeli government has to cater to them because it needs their support. When my then wife and I walked through Mea Sharim in Jerusalem with a tour group, they shouted "Whores" from the windows because the women were wearing slacks and walking with men. Lots of bad stories about them, like spitting on Priests, or chastising young children going to school. They are TOTALLY intolerant.
Well said!
One can not oppose Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state and not be an anti semite.