[Angelino97]

One of the themes of Percy’s novel “The Thanatos Syndrome” is that anti-Semitism and persecution of the Jews are among the early warning signs of the ascendency of godless totalitarian “utopias”. First the Jews, eventually the Christians and along the way pretty much anybody who believes in freedom and human dignity.

Jews are not always first to be persecuted.

The French Revolution focused its religious persecution on the Catholic Church, and legally emancipated the Jews.

Bolshevism initially persecuted Christians, especially focusing on the Orthodox Church. At the same time, it made anti-Semitism illegal. It's one of the reason so many Jews outside of the USSR supported the Bolsheviks, and even sent money to support the cause.

Only later, during Stalin's 1930s purge trials, did Soviet Communism begin to turn against its Jewish supporters.

Sometimes the Jews are first to be persecuted. Sometimes not.

[Wallace T.]

It must be remembered that leftist regimes, often consisting of Masons, in Catholic nations, were anticlerical. While Catholic nations like France, Spain, and Italy effectively suppressed Protestantism, they were less able to suppress secular humanism. The groundwork for the French Revolution was laid by philosophers like Denis Diderot and Jean Jacques Rousseau decades before the storming of the Bastille.

Whether France in the 1780s, Italy in the 1870s, Mexico in the 1920s, or Spain in the 1930s, the secular humanist, Masonic dominated governments went after the Catholic Church, while tolerating the Protestant minority and ending restrictions on Jews, as both groups were seen as allies against the Ancien Regime.

A distinction should be made between Grand Orient Masonry, dominant in the Latin nations, which was no opponent of atheism and was hostile to Christianity and Catholicism in particular and Anglo-American Masonry, which is theistic and not revolutionary.