Antisemitism And The Anti-Semites

American Thinker.com ^ | June 13, 2021 | Jerold Leveritz

[Kaslin]

Antisemitism is an abstract construct that describes people who hate Jews and/or the Jewish State. The question here is why they are hated. To this question, there are as many answers as there are anti-Semites but there are some general categories into which Jew-haters fall. Jews need to understand that they can’t run away from anti-Semitism by being “less Jewish.” The hatred comes from the haters, whether lazy thinkers or true psychopaths, and there are many “reasons” for their essentially unreasoning hatred.

Some people dislike Jews though they have never met one. They accept the opinions of high-status haters without fully considering the merits of those opinions. The source of antisemitism here is the human foible of being unable or unwilling to think about the information they have been fed.

Many people are anti-Semites because they are afraid not to hate Jews. These include academics and business people who fear losing their positions or profits if they do not conform to the left’s demand for anti-Semitism. These spineless individuals believe the Jews’ reactions to antisemitism will be less damaging to them than the anti-Semites’ nastiness.

Some people dislike looking at Jews in their separate garb or while performing their rituals. This aesthetic sense involves a strong repulsion to differences between people. Why? Who knows? It might stem from conditioning during their teen years when only slight novelty or deviation in dress codes was permitted. For these people, passing a Jewish-looking person on the street might arouse embarrassment, extending even to revulsion. For these folks, conformity equals acceptability.

[caww]

And some are just jealous because God didn’t pick them as the chosen.

“For you [Israel] are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be his people, his treasured possession” (Deuteronomy 7:6).

“And who is like your people Israel—the one nation on earth that God went out to redeem as a people for himself… by driving out nations and their gods from before your people, whom you redeemed from Egypt? You have established your people Israel as your very own forever, and you, Yahweh, have become their God” (2 Samuel 7:23-24).

“And all families on earth will be blessed through you” (Genesis 12:3).

[caww]

God chooses Israel and ultimately Jesus, and this results in the exact opposite of God favoring one group to the exclusion of all others. Instead, God works out his plan to extend his love to all the world through one group or individual.

So People should just cool their jets when it comes to Israel...He’ll handle Israel....he aways has.

[Telepathic Intruder]

”Jews need to understand that they can’t run away from anti-Semitism by being “less Jewish.”

But the collaborators were the last to be executed by the Nazis.

[RoosterRedux]

One of the main reasons for anti-semitism I have noticed goes to the issue of superiority/inferiority.

Throughout my career, I have noticed several occasions in which certain people who were Jewish were accused of giving off an attitude of superiority.

Were these people exuding an air of superiority or were their accusers expressing their own sense of inferiority...or perhaps both?

It would appear that this issue would be related to how each person involved in this case was raised or what his home life was like as a child.

Parents who had high expectations for their children in life would produce children who exuded relatively more confidence because, at the very minimum, parents had communicated that they (the children) were "capable" of higher performance.

[caww]

I think it’s both, and that throughout History even til today.... Jewish giving off an attitude of superiority...Accusers expressing their own sense of inferiority.

[DIRTYSECRET]

They vote 75% Democrat so they will express superiority.

[Graybeard58]

The source of antisemitism here is the human foible of being unable or unwilling to think about the information they have been fed.

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Dumb Asses.

[Graybeard58]

And some are just jealous because God didn’t pick them as the chosen.

“”””””””””””””””””””””””””””””

I believe that.

[AFreeBird]

And some hate them because they believe the Jews killed Jesus.

Pagan Rome killed Christ.

Peter didn’t build the Christian church in Israel. No, he did that in the heart of the empire that crucified His Teacher.

[MAAG]

Isaiah 41:8-13 (NASB1995)

“But you, Israel, My servant,
Jacob whom I have chosen,
Descendant of Abraham My friend,
You whom I have taken from the ends of the earth,
And called from its remotest parts
And said to you, ‘You are My servant,
I have chosen you and not rejected you.
‘Do not fear, for I am with you;
Do not anxiously look about you, for I am your God.
I will strengthen you, surely I will help you,
Surely I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.’
“Behold, all those who are angered at you will be shamed and dishonored;
Those who contend with you will be as nothing and will perish.
“You will seek those who quarrel with you, but will not find them,
Those who war with you will be as nothing and non-existent.
“For I am the Lord your God, who upholds your right hand,
Who says to you, ‘Do not fear, I will help you.’

Ezekiel 36:22

“Therefore say to the house of Israel, ‘Thus says the Lord God,
“It is not for your sake, O house of Israel, that I am about to act, but for My holy name,
which you have profaned among the nations where you went.

Romans 11:25-27

For I do not want you, brethren, to be uninformed of this mystery—
so that you will not be wise in your own estimation—
that a partial hardening has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in;
and so all Israel will be saved; just as it is written,

“The Deliverer will come from Zion,
He will remove ungodliness from Jacob.”
“This is My covenant with them,
When I take away their sins.”