Why the Charlottesville Marchers Were Obsessed With Jews
Anti-Semitic logic fueled the violence over the weekend, no matter what the president says
The “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville was ostensibly about protecting a statue of Robert E. Lee. It was about asserting the legitimacy of “white culture” and white supremacy, and defending the legacy of the Confederacy.
So why did the demonstrators chant anti-Semitic lines like “Jews will not replace us”?
The demonstration was suffused with anti-black racism, but also with anti-Semitism. Marchers displayed swastikas on banners and shouted slogans like “blood and soil,” a phrase drawn from Nazi ideology.
“This city is run by Jewish communists and criminal niggers,” one demonstrator told Vice News’ Elspeth Reeve during their march. As Jews prayed at a local synagogue, Congregation Beth Israel, men dressed in fatigues carrying semi-automatic rifles stood across the street, according to the temple’s president . Nazi websites posted a call to burn their building.
As a precautionary measure, congregants had removed their Torah scrolls and exited through the back of the building when they were done praying.
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Anti-black and anti-Jewish sentiment have long been intertwined in America. When the Jewish factory worker Leo Frank was wrongfully convicted of murder and lynched in 1915, two new groups simultaneously emerged: the ADL, which fights against bigotry and anti-Semitism, and the second Ku Klux Klan, which began by celebrating Frank’s death.
Later in the 20th century, Nazis became a natural model for white-supremacist movements in the United States, said Marjorie Feld, a professor of history at Babson College. The logic of white supremacy was similar: Hatreds became universalized through common archetypes.
Jews were seen by white supremacists as capitalists undermining local businesses. Black Americans fleeing the South in the Great Migration were seen as taking away crucial labor. Catholics were seen as immigrants stealing American jobs
You can't be a good Nazi without wishing harm to Jews. In America, the hatred of Jews stems from the belief that Jews secretly control things.
As I understand it, anti-Jewish sentiments in Europe stemmed from the erroneous perception that the Jews had betrayed Jesus. For a long time Christianity literally ruled Europe and so controlled not only the laws but also the society and the culture. Jews were ostracized and were perceived to have become secretive and conniving. These false stereotypes eventually led to the Holocaust. The false stereotypes survived and took hold in America and elsewhere, which I think led to the foothold, so to speak, that Nazi thought made in the US (it is still obviously incredibly minuscule in numbers). Now they seek to grow their vicious anti-semitism and racism here which is why they must be constantly opposed.
In America, the hatred of Jews stems from the belief that Jews secretly control things.
But if Jews actually did control things--might not that actually be a good thing, rather a bad thing?
A landslide majority of Florida’s Jews voted for Hillary Clinton, largely reflecting the same political beliefs as Jews across the rest of the country, an election night poll revealed on Wednesday. Jewish voters in the key swing state, who comprise 5% of the voter population, chose Clinton by a 40-point margin, according to a survey conducted by GBA Strategies and released by J Street.
With 68% of Jews voting Clinton and 28% voting Trump, the results were comparable to those four years ago, when 68% voted for President Barack Obama against 31% for Mitt Romney
In America, the hatred of Jews stems from the belief that Jews secretly control things.
But that would be a good thing, not a bad thing!
I wish it were true-- it would be nice if the world were in competent hands!
(Of course items in the Arab media don't exactly feel the same way-- And they should know, as they're so totally successful at running their own countries!):).
Although much of the Arab world knows that it wasn't Arabs but rather Bush who was behind 9/11, many is the Arab world know that it was really the Jews who flew those planes-- not any Arab!
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This cartoon, from the Syrian newspaper Al-Ahram (May 29, 2002), shows an anti-Semitic caricature of a Jew with a long beard and hooked nose, fuelling the “World Media” with “Zionist Media” propaganda, while in the background bombs are falling on the Moslem al-Aqsa shrine on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount. This cartoon stereotypes Jews, repeats the anti-Semitic myth that the Jews control the world media, and adds the lie that the Israeli government has damaged the al-Aqsa complex on the Temple Mount.
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The cartoon above, with text in English designed for a foreign audience, was posted on the official website of the Palestinian Authority State Information Center on April 6, 2003. The Palestinian Authority State Information Center regularly posts ugly anti-Israel and anti-American cartoons, including this reiteration of the anti-Semitic blood libel that Jews kill non-Jewish children.
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“This city is run by Jewish communists..."
"Jews were seen by white supremacists as capitalists..."
Now, let's try to get this straight....
“This city is run by Jewish communists..."
"Jews were seen by white supremacists as capitalists..."
Actually from the history I know on that subject, that sort of thingn has been prevalent for a lo0ng time. Basically people who hate Jews have two complaints about them:
1. They are all ruthless capitalists.
2. They are all Communists or Communist sympathizers.
Hatred in the heart knows no logic.
Love of all humanity knows no bounds.
Their call.
Sometimes menu options are limited to two.
Via con Dios (Love).
Admission request to enter the World to Come denied.
You harvest what you plant.
Enoch, Hoping for a Bumper Crop of Virtue, Peace and Fellowship Among One and All.