Posted on 02/15/2005 9:42:18 AM PST by quidnunc
Antisemitism may seem to be a static, unchanging phenomenon, but in fact the obsessive hatred of Jews has a history that goes back millennia and continues to evolve.
Developments since World War II and the Holocaust have been especially fast-paced and portentous. Here are four of the most significant shifts:
• From Right to Left: For centuries, antisemitism was the hallmark of the Right and merely episodic on the Left. To take the ultimate examples of these trends, Stalin’s Judeophobia was peripheral to his monstrous project but Hitler’s was central to his. Even a decade ago, this pattern still basically held true. But recent years have witnessed a rapid and global realignment, with the mainstream Right increasingly sympathetic to Jews and Israel and its Left counterpart cooler and more hostile.
• From Christian to Muslim: Christians developed the abiding tropes of antisemitism (such as greediness and ambitions to world domination) and historically Christians killed most Jews. Therefore, Jews regularly fled Christendom for Islamdom. In 1945, this pattern abruptly changed. Christians newly came to terms with Jews, while Muslims adopted both the old Christian themes and murderousness. Today, institutional antisemitism is overwhelmingly a Muslim affair. One result has been the steady reverse exodus, with Jews now fleeing Islamdom for Christendom.
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"...Christians newly came to terms with Jews..."
There are currently large numbers of Christians not only coming to terms with Jews, but actively persuing living the Torah. Modern Christianity would call this "going back under the law" but modern Christianity has radically misinterpreted what the messiah taught about the law. See "Jesus' teaching on God's Law"
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1316495/posts
Somebody please explain the "Statement Christians mostly killed Jews". I know they were kicked out and threatened ie, Spanish Inquisition, but mostly killed?
1. transitive verb achieve something desired: to do what is necessary to bring about or achieve something expected, desired, or promised
went on to fulfill her early promise of greatness
2. transitive verb carry out: to do what is necessary to carry out a request or command
The instructions have been fulfilled to the letter.
3. transitive verb satisfy requirement: to be good enough or of the type necessary to meet a standard or requirement
4. transitive verb complete: to do what is necessary to complete or bring something to an end
5. transitive verb supply amount of order: to supply the full amount of something ordered
6. vr realize ambitions: to feel satisfied with what you are doing, or realize your expectations or ambitions
You and I and everyone on this planet have always broken the law and always will. It is by Jesus' blood alone that atonement is made. He has fulfilled the law for us, since we have not and will not do this ourselves.
It's not really true. Nobody killed Jews because they were Christians. Rather, Jews were killed by bad Christians.
The reason why more Jews were killed by people who happened to be Christians than by others is that over the centuries more Jews have lived in Christian countries than elsewhere.
Why? Because in spite of episodes of ghettoisation, pogroms, persecutions, and the rest of it, Christian countries were still better places for the Jews to live than anywhere else.
By the nature of their religion, Jews live together and somewhat apart from others. Human nature being human nature, that's an invitation to occasional attacks on them. It would be the same for any other distinct group living apart from the general population.
I'm not excusing antisemitic behavior on the part of Christians through history. I'm just saying that it was not their Christianity as such that made them do it, despite the use of pseudo-Christian insults like "Christ-killer." Any proper Christian knows that, because of our sinfulness, we are all responsible for the death of Christ, and that has always been the normative Christian theological position.
As John Donne says in one of his Holy Sonnets, the Jews killed Jesus once, not knowing Who He was. But we kill Him every day, knowing he is God. Who is more to blame?
I would also take issue with the change "from religious to secular."
Jews were rarely persecuted for religious reasons. Throughout the middle ages they were defended by the Pope. Normally the leaders of pogroms were lay people. Religious issues might be raised, but they were seldom the real reasons. Jews typically were persecuted by people who borrowed money from them and didn't want to pay it back, or by folks like the cossacks, to take a familiar instance.
I'm not saying that churchmen were never involved, because sometimes they were. But as we can easily see looking around us at the present time, churchmen are not always what they should be. Nor is every bishop always a model shepherd of his flock.
Read this earlier today. Already posted. (Search "Pipes")
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1343537/posts
Or by folks who wanted to outright expropriate the Jews property.
The 19th Century Russian pograms were launched in order to redirect the people's attention away from the autocrat Czar and his government as the source of their misery.
'The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion' was written by a czarist secret police agent specifically to whip up anti-Jewish sentiment among the Russian people during a pogrom.
Jews must fight back this time..and good Christians will stand at their side, as many have done before at their own peril. The conservative Christians are the best allies the Jews have, and many of us are aware of that and are grateful. More and more Jews who defined themselves as liberal are waking up to the fact that the left will aid their destruction, since the left (and none more firmly than the European left) is now firmly wedded with islamofascists.
'Somebody please explain the "Statement Christians mostly killed Jews". I know they were kicked out and threatened ie, Spanish Inquisition, but mostly killed?'
The truth will set you free, or get you killed, or zotted, or at the very least, get you accused of being an anti-Semite:
"Mrs. Van Hyning, I am surprised at your surprise. You are a student of history -- and you know that both the Borgias and the Mediciis are Jewish families of Italy. Surely you know that there have been Popes from both of these house. Perhaps it will surprise you to know that we have had 20 Jewish Popes, and when you have sufficient time, which may coincide with my free time, I can show you these names and dates. You will learn from these that: The crimes committed in the name of the Catholic Church were under Jewish Popes. The leaders of the inquisition was one, de TorQuemada, a Jew." (Woman's Voice, November 25, 1953)'
It's not considered polite to talk about things like that. We are just expected to suffer defamation in silence. 500,000 [mostly Christian) American soldiers died to free them during WWII, but it's never enough. My father survived the Battle of the Bulge, living out Psalm 91 as men were blown up all around him. The Jews got their memorial years before the WWII vets did, and they took the opportunity to preach there on their website that the Christians are the cause of all their problems and their chief persecutors, when the truth is that far more Christians have been killed than Jews. The true body of Christ has been the main target for the last 2,000 years: http://www.blueletterbible.org/tsk_b/Rev/12/17.html . See also Psalm 2.
http://www.google.com/search?q=+tribe+of+dan+serpent+eagle+dragon&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&start=10&sa=N
Let's see how long this post lasts. Tick, tick, tick....
Thanks for the definition, Bonaparte. Of course this is the ENGLISH definition of the ENGLISH word 'fulfill'. You could do the same with 'law', which is another ENGLISH word. Of course, the scriptures were written in hebrew, greek, and aramaic. They were translated into other languages before they were translated into english. Those who translated them had agendas, which affected their outlook and translation. Check your hebrew/english dictionary for the words which were translated into 'law' and 'fulfilled'. I was very surprised when I did this, perhaps you will be too?
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The Jews got in trouble in Spain in 1492 because that period marked the end of the Reconquista, the 900-year struggle of the Spanish people to take back their country from the invading Moors, after having been driven back into one small mountainous region.
In 1492 the Turks and the pirates of North Africa were still major threats. The coasts were raided, and Christians were enslaved.
The Jews got caught in the middle, because they were trading with the Muslims. Nothing wrong with that as such, but it was one of those periods when "You are either with us or against us." The Jews were feared as possible agents of the Muslim tyrants. So they were expelled.
But Spain was not the center of Jewish persecution. Many more Jews were killed in Russia, Ukraine, and the east in later times. Spain gets a bad rap because the anti-semitic angle fits in with the ancient Protestant hatred of the Inquisition. So it makes a persuasive story for people who don't know much about history.
Read Henryk Scienkewicz's great trilogy on Poland and Russia to get some of the background on the Cossack killings.
What did you find that so surprised you?
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