Posted on 03/16/2024 7:26:35 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The parallels between the rise of Nazism and the current global unrest and demonization of the Jewish people is largely incontestable.
On the off chance you hadn’t noticed, the world appears to be at an especially precarious moment presently. Obviously, war continues to rage in Ukraine and Gaza, with no end in sight to either conflict. Great Britain and Japan are currently in recession. Canada’s economy is an absolute disaster, with almost no hope of near-term recovery. Much of continental Europe and China are struggling economically, if not officially contracting. Some experts believe that the global economy more generally is sliding, slowly but surely, into recession. The only economic bright spot in the world is the United States, and even here we have our problems with consumer spending and sentiment, massive credit concerns, and inarguably sticky inflation.
Meanwhile, China is investing in and winning friends, and influencing people in the Global South. U.S.-backed Kurdish leaders are warning that ISIS is resurgent in Syria and Iraq. The Marine general in charge of U.S. Africa Command is warning of Russia’s increasing influence on that continent. Sudan remains mired in civil war. Nigeria is plagued by Islamist terrorism and mass kidnappings. Mexico is in the midst of a full-blown war with the drug cartels, who continue to grow bolder and more militarily sophisticated.
Everywhere one looks, chaos reigns—or, at the very least, bubbles just below the surface.
Perhaps most telling among the signs of disarray is the unnerving rise of antisemitism in the United States, Europe, and throughout the world. Antisemitism, in general, has been intensifying, slowly but surely, over the last decade or so. Over the last few months, however, it has emerged fully into the open, undaunted and unembarrassed. What was once considered shameful and disconcerting is now warmly welcomed as a “rational” response to American foreign policy, Israeli war practices, “colonialism,” and “white privilege.”
All of this is troubling, to put it mildly, both in and of itself and as a harbinger of greater and more deadly global unrest.
Hatred of and anger toward Jews is not the same as other forms of bigotry. In many ways, the history of Western anti-Jewish hatred mirrors the history of Western political chaos and collapse. Or, to put it another way, historically, Jews are not only the perennial scapegoats during periods of social upheaval and displacement, but resurgent anti-Semitism serves as the proverbial canary in the coal mine for the rise of revolutionary movements.
In his classic, The Pursuit of the Millennium, the British historian Norman Cohn argues that the Jewish diaspora generally fit comfortably, if tentatively into European society for most of the first thousand years or so A.D., and only became a hated and perpetually persecuted minority with the rise of utopian Millenarianism that accompanied and then outlived the Crusades. Beginning then and continuing for the next nearly a thousand years, Europeans came to associate Jews with the antichrist and thus to associate hatred and persecution of Jews with preparing the battlespace for the Second Coming. Many historians, including Hannah Arendt, believed that the anti-Semitism that was such an integral part of the West’s 20th-century collapse into totalitarianism was relatively new and, in any case, distinct from medieval anti-Semitism. Cohn’s history suggests otherwise, connecting the religious eschatology of medieval Europe to the quasi-religious eschatology of post-Enlightenment Europe, thereby connecting the persistence of Western anti-Semitism as well.
Cohn tells us that millenarian moments and the millenarian movements that capitalize on those moments all share a common group of characteristics. They all appear under certain social and economic conditions. They all appeal to a certain segment of the population at large, who then present themselves as economic, spiritual, and political leaders. They all utilize scapegoats, meaning that they all identify a different, usually much smaller segment of the population on whom they can blame all the world’s ills and then set about to cure those ills through the elimination of the scapegoat. And more often than not, that scapegoat tends to be Jewish.
In the conclusion to the second edition of Pursuit of the Millennium, Cohn notes that the millenarian fervor of the middle ages may have changed, but it never really died, and it maintained its common characteristics even as it became secular or “quasi-religious.” He wrote:
The story told in Pursuit of the Millennium ended some four centuries ago but is not without relevance to our own times. [I have] shown in another work [Warrant for Genocide: The Myth of the Jewish World Conspiracy and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion] how closely the Nazi phantasy of a world-wide Jewish conspiracy of destruction is related to the phantasies that inspired Emico of Leningrad and the Master of Hungary; and how mass disorientation and insecurity have fostered the demonization of the Jew in this as in much earlier centuries. The parallels and indeed the continuity are incontestable.
The parallels between the rise of Nazism and the current global unrest and demonization of the Jewish people are also largely incontestable. The election that brought Hitler to power didn’t happen in a vacuum, after all. It happened in the midst of global chaos, namely the Great Depression. It also followed the decadence and distortion of the Weimer Era. As the New York Fed has shown, even a global pandemic—the 1919 Spanish Flu outbreak—contributed to the sense of discomfort and disconnect among the German population, prompting increased support for Hitler and his Nazis.
The present global chaos doesn’t have to end the same way the chaos of a century ago did. It doesn’t have to result in the ascension of millenarian ideologies and their totalitarian defenders. History has shown that extremism can be short-circuited and radical ideologies undone. The first step in doing so, however, must be to bring an end to the rationalization of the persecution of the world’s Jews. The second step is to end the persecution itself. Antisemitism is ugly and shameful, and it must be treated as such. For their sake and ours.
The left has Institutionalized racist discrimination into our legal system. Great totals of our tax money is spent implementing discrimination via hiring, promotion, college admissions, college financial aid,”DEI” indoctrination and discrimination programs complete with their own Orwellian vocabularies and forced indoctrination sessions for all innocently caught working in such organizations, speech censorship, etc.
There are now tens of thousands of people on the public payroll whose sole job duty is to promote more and more discriminatory “thought” and wider and wider discriminatory programs, activities — and to enforce it -—all at taxpayer expense.
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It all boils down as usual as the endless war between the churchy group and the agnostics or atheists that could not give a damn about your personal faith or beliefs.
If the one group trying endlessly to push their dogma upon others that just want to be left alone, it might get better.
Yes, correct.
[snip] In 1903, portions of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion were serialized in a Russian newspaper, Znamya (The Banner). The version of the Protocols that has endured and has been translated into dozens of languages, however, was first published in Russia in 1905 as an appendix to The Great in the Small: The Coming of the Anti-Christ and the Rule of Satan on Earth, by Russian writer and mystic Sergei Nilus. [/snip]
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/protocols-of-the-elders-of-zion
Prior to the rise of the national Socialists, Germany was very tolerant of Jewish people ... Now they're a shadow of the nation they were before World War 1.
But Germany lost WW 1 while they were still being nice to Jews.
Germany was nice to Jews. Germany suffered defeat in WW 1.
Germany was mean to Jews. Germany suffered defeat in WW 2.
Germany is again nice to Jews. Germany still suffers.
Jews are not a magic people. The fate of nations does not depend on how they, or any other people, are treated. There are no magic people.
Acts 10:34
Then Peter began to speak: “I now realize how true it is that God does not show favoritism.
BTTT
Those are quotes and if you read them they state it was the Romans who were ultimately responsible for the crucifixion of Christ.
“Christians do NOT blame the Jewish diaspora for the death of Christ.”
Obviously, since they were not alive at the time, it would be illogical to do so. However, people can hold illogical beliefs and promote them, sometimes successfully.
I do try to educate people and I will quote leftist sources from time to time for my convenience.
Not every belief of every right-winger is correct and not every belief of every left-winger wrong.
quotes from: The Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement
18 August 1988
Article Eleven:
The Islamic Resistance Movement believes that the land of Palestine is an Islamic Waqf consecrated for future Moslem generations until Judgement Day. It, or any part of it, should not be squandered: it, or any part of it, should not be given up. Neither a single Arab country nor all Arab countries, neither any king or president, nor all the kings and presidents, neither any organization nor all of them, be they Palestinian or Arab, possess the right to do that....
Article Twelve:
Nationalism, from the point of view of the Islamic Resistance Movement, is part of the religious creed. Nothing in nationalism is more significant or deeper than in the case when an enemy should tread Moslem land. Resisting and quelling the enemy become the individual duty of every Moslem, male or female.
Article Thirteen:
Initiatives, and so-called peaceful solutions and international conferences, are in contradiction to the principles of the Islamic Resistance Movement.
There is no solution for the Palestinian question except through Jihad. Initiatives, proposals and international conferences are all a waste of time and vain endeavors. The Palestinian people know better than to consent to having their future, rights and fate toyed with.
Article Fifteen:
The day that enemies usurp part of Moslem land, Jihad becomes the individual duty of every Moslem. In face of the Jews’ usurpation of Palestine, it is compulsory that the banner of Jihad be raised.
Article Thirty-Two:
...Today it is Palestine, tomorrow it will be one country or another. The Zionist plan is limitless. After Palestine, the Zionists aspire to expand from the Nile to the Euphrates. When they will have digested the region they overtook, they will aspire to further expansion, and so on. Their plan is embodied in the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion”, and their present conduct is the best proof of what we are saying....There is no way out except by concentrating all powers and energies to face this Nazi, vicious Tatar invasion.
https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/hamas.asp
Hopefully jews will stop supporting leftist causes but I tend to doubt it
WIKI
In the spring of 1349, the Jewish community in Frankfurt am Main was annihilated. That was followed by the destruction of Jewish communities in Mainz and Cologne. The 3,000-strong Jewish population of Mainz initially defended themselves and managed to hold off the Christian attackers. However, the Christians managed to overwhelm the Jewish ghetto in the end and killed all of its Jews.
At Speyer, Jewish corpses were disposed in wine casks and cast into the Rhine. By late 1349, the worst of the pogroms had ended in Rhineland. However, the massacres of Jews was starting to rise near the Hansa townships of the Baltic coast and in Eastern Europe. By 1351, there had been 350 incidents of anti-Jewish pogroms, and 60 major and 150 minor Jewish communities had been exterminated.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Jews_during_the_Black_Death
Thanks for the info
Laws protecting Jews and other minorities are frequently ignored
Or just unenforced.
It is the legislation that discriminated against Jews, Christians, whites, Asians, etcetera that get enforced
Jews were protected or guaranteed their equal rights by the German constitution of 1871 too
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WIKI
The story concerns a farmer who finds a viper freezing in the snow. Taking pity on it, he picks it up and places it within his coat. The viper, revived by the warmth, bites his rescuer, who dies realizing that it is his own fault.
in Medieval versions of the fable. Odo of Cheriton’s snake answers the farmer’s demand for an explanation with a counter-question, “Did you not know that there is enmity and natural antipathy between your kind and mine? Did you not know that a serpent in the bosom, a mouse in a bag and fire in a barn give their hosts an ill reward?”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Farmer_and_the_Viper
The curse goes to 4 Generations. Germany is just now getting out of it.
The weasel Clark and NATO slaughtered thousands of Serbs in an attempted genocide in order to assist the Muslim kosovars into taking over Serbia.
Clark, the Clintons and Madeleine Albright should have been tried for crimes against humanity. NATO’s actions against the Serbs were damnable.
No.
God did not say anything about Abraham's descendants. He spoke of Abraham's seed, which is Jesus Christ, and the blessings are for those who believe in Him.
Galatians 3:16
The promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. Scripture does not say “and to seeds,” meaning many people, but “and to your seed,” meaning one person, who is Christ.
Galatians 3:29
If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.
Article 20
2. Any advocacy of national, racial or religious hatred that constitutes incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence shall be prohibited by law.
Last I heard, this law was non-self executing in the States. That is, it cannot be used as a basis for a lawsuit in the USA.
By these rules, the Koran could be outlawed.
I quoted and bttt’d what you wrote.
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