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China's tiny Jewish community in fear as Beijing erases its history
The Telegraph via Yahoo! News ^ | December 12, 2020 | by Sophia Yan

Posted on 12/13/2020 3:58:15 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

For this year’s Hanukkah, Amir is lighting menorah candles and reciting blessings to celebrate the holiday’s eight nights, as many Jews are around the world.

But he does so in secret, worried that Chinese officials will come around – as they often do on religious occasions – to enforce a ban against Judaism, pressuring him to renounce his faith. Sometimes, he’s even called in for interrogations.

“Every time we celebrate, we are scared,” said Amir, not his real name as he asked not to be identified over worries of retaliation. "Whatever we do, we’re always very careful to make sure the authorities don’t find out.”

Since 2015, Chinese leader Xi Jinping has waged a harsh campaign against foreign influence and unapproved religion, part of a push to ‘Sinicise’ faith – ripping down church crosses and mosque onion domes, and detaining more than a million Muslims in the western Xinjiang region.

As well as Christians and Muslims, Mr Xi’s suppression has hit China’s tiny congregation of Jews, whose ancestors settled more than a millennium ago along the Yellow River in Kaifeng, then the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty.

That such a small group can attract the Communist Party’s ire shows how far the crackdown has spread. Only about 1,000 people in Kaifeng claim Jewish heritage, and of those, only around 100 or are practising Jews, experts say – barely a splash in China’s sea of 1.4 billion. Even at its peak in the 1500s, the community only numbered around 5,000.

“It’s government policy – China doesn’t want to recognise us as Jews,” one man, who dreams of training as a rabbi in Israel, told the Telegraph. “Their goal is to make sure the next generation doesn’t have any Jewish identity.”

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: china; jewish; religion; tyranny

1 posted on 12/13/2020 3:58:15 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Hanukkah is all about RESISTANCE!


2 posted on 12/13/2020 4:02:48 AM PST by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Lawrence Tribe (liberal lawyer) was born in Shanghai, as thousands of Jews sought refuge there during the Nazi era.


3 posted on 12/13/2020 4:07:01 AM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Hey...let’s sell or give our Constitution to CHYna. We’re not using it.

h/t bud


4 posted on 12/13/2020 4:07:51 AM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: PghBaldy

T post. INFOBUMP


5 posted on 12/13/2020 4:10:24 AM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer; All

Kai Fu Lee likens the Chinese data collectors to China’s gladiators.

Was in the “people” dropdown menu of these maniacs under “Lee”.


6 posted on 12/13/2020 4:13:48 AM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: SJackson

Ping.

5.56mm


7 posted on 12/13/2020 4:19:58 AM PST by M Kehoe (DRAIN THE SWAMP! Finish THE WALL!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Very interesting article.


8 posted on 12/13/2020 4:20:45 AM PST by livius
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To: Oldeconomybuyer; All

Shouldn’t SCOTUS pictures be on the side of milk cartons?

Can the ole republic car, the beat up car still drive in the dark with one headlight?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zzyfcys1aLM


9 posted on 12/13/2020 4:23:18 AM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Still oppressed under LOCKDOWN lunatics? How ‘bout some SCOTUS toilet tissue from CHYna. C’mon man. It’s 2-ply. It’s selling out fast.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hT_nvWreIhg


10 posted on 12/13/2020 4:31:27 AM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: PGalt

OOPS

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sowwy


11 posted on 12/13/2020 4:33:20 AM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: PGalt

“Cheap wine and cigarettes” Wallflowers?

Brain bounce...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KGe_4leh_Y


12 posted on 12/13/2020 4:43:02 AM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: PGalt

Shadows. Had a cat we named Shadow. Good cat. Our shadow’s taller than our soul. Sunday bb.

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13 posted on 12/13/2020 4:53:30 AM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: dennisw; Cachelot; Nix 2; veronica; Catspaw; knighthawk; Alouette; Optimist; weikel; Lent; GregB; ..
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14 posted on 12/13/2020 5:48:00 AM PST by SJackson (We don't let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns. Joseph Stalin)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Most interesting.


15 posted on 12/13/2020 6:50:59 AM PST by Ciexyz (Prayers for America.)
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To: lightman
Re: Hanukkah is all about RESISTANCE!

Right!!! Check out the Books of the Maccabees in the Septuagint Old Testament canon used by Roamn Catholics and Eastern Orthodox - and Josephus' Antiquities.

16 posted on 12/13/2020 1:50:43 PM PST by Sons of Union Vets (Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory!)
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To: Sons of Union Vets; carriage_hill

EXCELLENT reading:

https://nypost.com/2020/12/09/why-the-cultural-elite-truly-despises-hanukkah/


17 posted on 12/13/2020 2:24:52 PM PST by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: lightman
Indeed! Excellent reading!

The cultural elite despises the traditional Abrahamic religions because they teach that God must always be given priority over the State in matters of faith and morals.

The State, on the other hand, demands the right to define/decide what is to be "moral." The State demands to take the place of God and impose its man made "political pseudo-religion" on those it seeks to dominate.

For Socialists and Communists, "morality" is not the Ten Commandments. "Morality" is whatever happens to serve the cause of world Socialism/Communism.

The abomination demands to be allowed to stand where it ought not.

18 posted on 12/15/2020 8:13:43 AM PST by Sons of Union Vets (Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory!)
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