Posted on 10/21/2023 10:04:14 AM PDT by silent majority rising
There is a good rule about anti-Semitism. One reason it isn’t better known is because its best expression comes at the mid-point of the 20th century’s towering work of historical fiction: Life and Fate, by Vasily Grossman.
That novel, which takes the reader from the Battle of Stalingrad to the Nazi death camps, traverses the entire dark heart of the 20th century. Yet in the very middle of its 900 pages, the great Russian writer examines the question of anti-Semitism. He says almost everything.
Anti-Semitism is something which, as Grossman writes, can be met “in the marketplace and in the Academy, in the soul of an old man and in the games children play in the yard”. He describes it as always a means rather than an end, “a measure of the contradictions yet to be resolved”.
And here is the key point. “It is a mirror for the failings of individuals, social structures and state systems. Tell me what you accuse the Jews of, I’ll tell you what you are guilty of.”
I can’t tell you how many times in my life I have seen this. And never more than in the past fortnight.
Look at the protests against Israel that have erupted across Europe since the Hamas massacres two weeks ago today. There were no mass rallies in solidarity with the Jews who had been gunned down at a music festival, shot in the head at a bus stop, or decapitated in front of their parents.
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We’re nearing the end of the church age IMHO.
Wars and rumors of war.
The Lawless One will arise and confirm 7 years of ‘Peace and Security’.
3-1/2 years later he will declare himself to be “god” and the Great Tribulaton will begin.
THEN comes the Mark of the Beast.
And the Israel haters will join him.
Matthew 24:15-16
King James Version
15 When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)
16 Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains:
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2024%3A15-16&version=KJV
Anti-Semitism has been with us for thousands of years. It is an infection, and the cure is the truth.
Absolutely. Thank you for a brief explanation.
Jews are the canaries in the social coal mine: every time the society decays through war, pestilence, famine or decadence and tyranny, the Jews pay.
And of all of those countries, Israel is by far the best country for an Arab to live in, as long as you aren’t a terrorist.
All tyrannies need scapegoats.
Incompetent and failing societies need a scapegoat. The Jews are that scapegoat.
If the Jews did not exist, they would have to be invented.
(attributed to Jean-Paul Sartre among others)
The real reason is simple:
The mere presence of the Hebrew children are a “proof” to the world that there IS a God, and that He will fulfil His promise He gave to Abraham.
Well said.
The West is dead. We won’t see them stand up against Islamofascism. Many nations in the West may not survive 20 years from now. Sweden? France? Canada? They may all fall to Muslims.
The flip side of race hatred is self-loathing.
Israelvwill face it’s sever judgement as well.
/\ This.
Any Jew's existence, no matter how assimilated is a sign of this. Even an "apostate" Jews's "apostasy" is a sign of the rejection of God's agreement with Abraham, so even they are a sign of the one, true God.
So just the existence of any Jew sticks in the craw of the truly wicked.
As will the rest of the non-believing world 🌎🌍.
God WILL save a remnant of Israel
Zechariah 13:9
King James Version
9 And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The Lord is my God.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Zechariah+13%3A9&version=KJV
Agreed!
Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is six hundred and sixty-six.” Revelation 13:18
Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,
That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.
Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. II These. 2
🛐🙏✝️
Well,
The truth is that they had Jesus crucified (Pilot didn’t want to do that). When you kill someones prophet and in this case the son of God, that generally does not make you popular among those people.
In wasn’t until 1965 that the official stance on the Jews being at fault for Jesus being killed was repudiated (Second Vatican Council issued a document “Nostra Aetate” ): https://www.reuters.com/article/us-pope-jews-events/timeline-vatican-jewish-relations-idUSTRE60G0WA20100117
They tried to stone Jesus and are the Pharisees which the Bible does not talk highly about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharisees
They deny the Trinity.
They are often found in the money business, conducting essentially what once was referred to as “usery” and in the past there were less rules on what you can take away from people, when, and how... They were often hated for their role in society as the banker: https://www.christianity.com/wiki/christian-terms/what-is-usury-what-does-the-bible-say.html
That is also one of the reasons why every Inquisition got rid of them. In fact, one of the first recorded wide spread mass murdering of Jews in Europe was at the hands of the Francs, during the first Crusade. The Francs did not appreciate the Jews charging interest for what was a holy crusade to free the Holy Land and where Jews were doing business with the Muslims: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhineland_massacres
Many Jews themselves believe that they are being punished for a reason (there is scriptural basis for it).
The Jews have their own distinct culture, they are their own people, and they never integrated in the societies where they were (Italy, Spain, France, Germany, England). So they always stuck out in language, dress, religion and social rites...
***The point being, there is a historical reason for this.***
In America, we live in a bubble, insulated from the cultural, historical, economic, realities of the world, even nature with our fake food, plastic people (https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/08/31/14/74906367-12463351-image-a-1_1693487430168.jpg)...
In this bubble people are so far removed from reality, that people don’t even know why the Jews have always been targeted.
We proclaim homosexuality as natural, and we have movies with lots of African American knights, where the daughter of two Greeks is black (Cleopatra). We have 120 lbs female action heroes that beat up 240 lbs men all day long... In America we even rewrite the Bible in gender neutral language, have female priests, open communion, gay weddings, and folks like Darby (Baptists), and Joseph Smith (Mormons) come up with their all new interpretation of things.
Along those lines, starting in the 1860s with the rise of the Baptists, the Jew which were also disliked in the US up until then, began to take on a new role. But you need to realize, in America we even rewrite our own history since Jews were disliked all the way until the early 1900s among the social elite, political class, etc! Lindbergh, Ford... all known anti-Semites. FDR didn’t like them: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-xpm-2013-apr-07-la-oe-medoff-roosevelt-holocaust-20130407-story.html, and what we call anti-Semitism was common and accepted in the US at the time! In fact, before WWII began there were many Jewish refugees and we REFUSED to take, in part because we didn’t want “those Jews.” More about that: https://archives.jdc.org/topic-guides/the-story-of-the-s-s-st-louis/ (Imagine being one of the 907 Jews that were sent back to Germany, yikes...).
In our tradition of rewriting history, this was removed from the Smithsonian years ago: https://ids.si.edu/ids/deliveryService?id=NASM-SI-2001-4158&max=900 (Spirit of St Luis Spinner)
Post WWII and Holocaust, with a plethora of movies (Hollywood is heavily Jewish influenced) and the teaching of the plight of these people..., no one wants to publicly be an anti-Semite today, not in the West, but the core truths of why this once was so common is as true today as it was in the past.
***That does not make it right. But there is a historical reason.***
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