Posted on 05/20/2014 12:44:30 PM PDT by Pharmboy
Outstanding piece.
“...Speaking of which, the 1917 Bolshevik revolution in Russia that brought so much suffering to the people of Russia, including Jews, was in fact a Jewish revolution. ...”
Churchill also said that as well.
Indeed, an excellent article.
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The financial elites play the Jews like a fiddle.
Their fervent support of Barack Obama is a mystery wrapped in a tragedy for the whole country
As do the intellectual elites and—most important—the Democrat Party elites. It defies logic, but logic has never been a liberal’s strong point.
This was a good piece but it doesn’t explain why some liberal American Jews equate conservatism with Nazism. I have first-hand experience with this. My theory is that they place both Nazis and conservatives on the right because, although the Nazis were socialists, both were/are implacable foes of the Communists. And as the article pointed out, the leaders of the Communist revolution were Jewish.
In the late 1920s, German Jews voted for Hitler’s National Socialist Party, only to become victims of the Holocaust a decade later. They chose to ignore Hitler’s anti-Semitic rhetoric, believing that it was merely for domestic consumption. They doubted that Hitler could be bad, much less evil. After all, he was a socialist!
German Jews did not vote for Hitler. Antisemitism was his principle platform, and Jews knew it. They did vote for the Socialist Party (not the Nazi "National Socialist" Party), and the Socialists were, along with the Jews, the first to be sent to the concentration camps.
The author is also wrong to describe Karl Marx as a Jew (although Hitler did like to call him that). Marx's grandparents were Jews, but his parents converted to Lutheranism before Karl's birth. Marx never identified as a Jew, and his writings are full of anti-semitism.
Thanks for you comments and corrections. Much appreciated.
By the standards of the 1930s, the Nazis were indeed regarded as a right-wing party. In Europe of the 1930s, the leftists favored pacifism, internationalism (the League of Nations), socialism and religious toleration, while the right wing parties favored militarism, nationalism, anti-communism and anti-semitism. This was true not just in Germany, but throughout Europe. Europeans at the time clearly saw the Nazis as a far-right party.
If you look at the waves of Jewish immigration from Eastern Europe and Russia to the US, it was around the same time that Jews in those countries were embracing Socialism as the simple solution to the great problems facing those troubled lands. They brought that ideology with them to the US, and refused to see the damage it wreaked on their former homelands in the century that followed.
One cousin is a political conservative but also a Jew for Jesus.
Yes, it bothers me that so many of my fellow Jews are so liberal-lefty, but there doesn't seem to be much I can do about it personally.
And, addressing Freepers in general, yes, I know A-rabs are also semites. But in common usage we know to whom the term ant-semitic applies.
I had a Jewish friend in grad school in Austin. She was from Connecticut and her family was almost literally afraid that when she moved to Texas that she would be sent to a concentration camp. She was sort of surprised that she found less anti-Antisemitism in the South than in the N.E.
Wow! Thanks for this one Pharmboy.
Needs to reposted everywhere.
It is absolutely true today that there is far more anti-semitism on the American left than on the American right. My parents told me that American Jews of their generation considered Republicans antisemitic because the Democrats in the 1930s tried to lift immigration quotas to allow Jews from Europe to enter America and the Republicans blocked them. (I don't know if that was in fact true; if it was, it may have had more to do with immigration policy in general than with anti-semitism. I haven't studied that aspect of history enough to comment.)
And, addressing Freepers in general, yes, I know A-rabs are also semites. But in common usage we know to whom the term ant-semitic applies.
The "we're not anti-semitic because we don't hate Arabs" thing is a modern leftist dodge. The phrase "anti-semitism" was in fact coined by a Nazi in the 1930s to come up with a "scientific" name for what had until then simply been called "Jew hatred."
Shalom Y’all!
It's funny that people who would only ever vote for one party are surprised that people on the other side feel the same way.
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