Posted on 08/18/2014 12:38:51 PM PDT by Fenhalls555
The novelist Rebecca West once said that Jews, having suffered so much, had an “unsurprisable soul”, In 2000 our daughter, then a university student, attended an anti-globalisation rally in London that turned into a tirade against America, then Israel and finally Jews. “Dad, they hate us,” she said through her tears. Hearing those words in Britain in the 21st century showed me that I had a surprisable soul.
Jews in Europe have been shaken these past few weeks by the virulence of the demonstrations about the war in Gaza that also turned into something older and darker. More than a century after the Dreyfus trial the cry of “death to the Jews” has been heard again in the streets of Paris. Seventy years after the Holocaust, “gas the Jews” has been heard again in Germany. In Britain last month antisemitic incidents were at almost their highest level in 30 years. These are danger signals not just for Jews but for Europe.
(Excerpt) Read more at rabbisacks.org ...
"Jonathan Henry Sacks, Baron Sacks, Kt (born 8 March 1948) is a rabbi and scholar of Judaism. He was the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth. His Hebrew name is Yaakov Zvi. As the spiritual head of the United Synagogue, the largest synagogue body in the UK, he was the Chief Rabbi of those Orthodox synagogues, but he was not a religious authority for the Federation of Synagogues or the Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations or the other movements, Masorti, Reform and Liberal Judaism"
More here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Sacks
Note to mods: I give the source as the Times where the piece appeared originally. It was republished by the author at his website. Had it not been so republished we would not have access as The Times is a subscription only newspaper.
The hatred of Jews (and Christians, for that matter) defies logic. It has to be spiritual in nature, and leads me to the conclusion that it is demonic. Satan hates all evidence of God on earth. By eradicating the people of the Book, I suppose Satan will feel triumphant.
"If the world hates you, you know that it has hated Me before it hated you.
So, Rabbi Sacks and his daughter are surprised? I am not. Are you?
The rabbi’s daughter goes to an anti-globalization rally (i.e., anti-capitalism hate fest), the rally “descends” into an anti-capitalist (i.e., anti-American) hate fest and finally to an anti-Jew hate fest.
What, really, is the difference from the beginning of the rally to the end? Is there really any “descent” at all? Or did the rally start in the lowest depths of hate. See Karl Marx’s On the Jewish Question.
This work, subscribed to by Marxists and many of the quasi-Marxists in attendance at the many “anti-globalization” rallies, posits that the religion of the Jews is capitalism, and that capitalism is the religion of the Jews. The word “Capitalism” itself was coined by Marx, who intended it to be used in a pejorative sense.
I think the reason for the Sacks’ surprise is because they have an “unconstrained vision.” I dare say this was the vision of Marx and the vision of his heirs. What is an “unconstrained vision?” Read Thomas Sowell’s A Conflict of Visions, and/or see an interview with Sowell at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGvYqaxSPp4
In making that particular point, a point with which I more or less agree, you completely miss the much broader point he is making about anti-Semitism.
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