Anti-Semitic Incidents Surged 57 Percent in 2017, Report Finds

Anti-semitism had traditionally been found on the Right, and opposed on the Left.

The anti-Semitism on the Right, like all anti-Semitism pre-Hitler, was not exterminationist. In one sense, it was just the natural antagonism that all distinct human tribes feel for other tribes. But suspicion, disdain, and hatred of Jews had some unique features, caused by the unique features of the Jewish tribe.

(1) Jews are smarter than non-Jews, on average, by about one Standard Deviation of IQ. (The reasons behind this need not concern us.) This naturally causes resentment.

(2) Jews had been excluded from many occupations during the Middle Ages -- but one that was open to them was 'usury', the lending of money, which is forbidden to Christians and Muslims. As well, they tended to fill the upper positions of capitalism as it developed. Class antagonism was easily diverted towards them -- the "socialism of fools" as it was called.

(3). The Jews had no state -- they were minorities in other peoples' states, and as nationalism flourished, they were looked upon by ardent nationalists as 'anti-national' ... which to an extent, they were.

(4) Being more intelligent than the others, and also always 'on the outside', they became pioneers of modernity .. of that movement of rational, trans-tribal thinking which has slowly grown in the West since the Enlightenment.
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Despite this, Jews were slowly assimilating into modern capitalist society, which tends to break down tribal identities. Jews who were pessimistic about this process -- either in the sense of not believing it would happen, or believing that it would happen all too well, ending Jews as a distinct people -- supported Zionism. But before WWII it was very much a minority project.

WWII changed everything. It revealed the deep anti-Semitism of Europeans, not just Germans, and showed that anti-Semitism could, under the right circumstances, become exterminatory. Suddenly the 'Palestine option' became real.

So the Jews became like many other tribes which had been forced to leave their ancestral lands by stronger peoples, or who for other reasons left their original countries: they landed on a weaker people and took their land. This is exactly how the United States was created, of course.

Because of the Holocaust, anything that might appear to be criticism of Jews was beyond the pale. Anti-Semitism on the Right went quiet, and the fight against anti-Semitism seemed to be won.

But the reality of Israel wouldn't go away. The Left, frustrated because the workers of the West ignored them, turned to guerilla movements in the Third World, and identity politics in the West, to bring down capitalism. (And these often overlapped.)

So the Left became anti-Israel, on anti-colonialist grounds, but was always careful to distinguish between anti-Zionism, and anti-Semitism. It helped that so many leaders of the Left have been Jewish. Increased Muslim presence in the West has provided the Left with something of a mass base for it's anti-Israel work, but have given it a problem in that the Muslim rank and file have not always learned to tell liberals what they want to hear about anti-Zionism not being anti-Semitism. Thus Leftists organizing mass anti-Israel protests have to always be alert for 'Jews to the Gas Chambers' signs among their Muslim supporters, just as Rightists are always going to have to police their meeting for neo-Nazis and Klansmen.. Life's little trials.

In the West, Israel has beloved of the Right since the Arabs lined up in the Soviet camp after 1967, so traditional Right-wing anti-Semitism was not only embarrassed by the Holocaust, but ran counter to admiration for Israel, and was thus confined to the lunatic fringes of the far Right.

But things have begun to change. Israel's refusal to roll the dice with respect to permitting the establishment of a Palestinian state has made it less and less popular among liberals, and even among liberal Jews. Sympathy for Israel -- hard as this is to believe -- used to be a point of pride on the non-revolutionary left, especially among the Marxoid reformist Social Democrats in the US. No longer. And the Cold War is over, and many on the Right have begun to tire -- not so much of Israel as such, but of the whole bloody Middle East with its never-ending wars and obscene tribal hatreds, which apparently not even the 82nd Airborne is able to solve.

Of course the hardline Zionists have always been quick to label any criticism of Israel, 'anti-Semitism'. Nor was there any discussion of why Jews were so hated in Eastern Europe and the Baltics -- the prominent Jewish role among the Communists was off limits. Now these taboos are breaking down.

And for their part, the Left, with its move into extreme identity politics and its belief that anyone who thinks there might just occasionally be a police-Black encounter in which the Black is not a shining angel, is a White Supremacist -- they are nurturing an 'identity politics' counter-movement among whites. This has just begun, and needs to find a way to express itself that does not openly flout the prohibition on Whites (but not anyone else) being 'racist' ... something like the anti-Semitism anti-Zionism distinction. However it happens, it will not be good. We can be grateful that 30% of the American military, and 20% of its officer corps, is non-white. (And it will be far less effective as a fighting force within a few decades once it's been feminized and trans-genderized.)

So who knows what the future will bring? My prediction: if we can return to 3% economic growth, good job opportunities for everyone willing to work, learn how to accept the inevitable emergence of a Chinese Communist dictatorship as the dominant world power, and gradually extract ourselves from the Middle East/Afghan cauldron ... then we'll muddle through.

 

ITS ORIGIN AND PURPOSE, STILL A TOTAL MYSTERY: ‘Allah hu Akbar’ Shouting Woman Threatens to Blow Herself up at Cannes Festival.

 

Hey, he said they were good people, But I have a feeling I know about you by the way you’re defending Rae marchers, You might educate yourself and Google and you will see that hate groups like this have skyrocketed since Trump became president and gave them glorification

 

“ they’re only jews” as Christians throw them in ovens

 

Your post is incoherent, but thank you for commenting.

A 27-year-old woman from Cannes was arrested this week outside the CanneSeries television festival after she yelled “Allah hu Akbar” and threatened to blow herself up.

The 27-year-old was accompanied by her two children aged two and four years old while she was making threats to explode.

 

Let me clear it up. ..you are condemning g this Muslim woman for her actions....but you overlook Christians for their actions.

 

Oh... The Crusades!

There is no greater compliment to Christianity than you having to go back nearly a THOUSAND years in order to find a comparable to what a Muslim is doing today.

But then, Jesus and Mohammed set totally different examples for their followers.

 

Let’s go back closer to 50 years...lynchings? Did Jesus condone putting Jews in ovens?

 

What is the connection to Christianity and lynchings and jews in ovens?

 

There is some truth in that because the Nazis were staying in the shadows until Trump emerged from his ivory towers to run and capture the Oval Offuce. Nazis are emboldened here and in Europe.

 

Nazis are emboldened because moslems give people legitimate reasons to be afraid. Jews in Western countries don't bother anyone. The reason that Nazis still harp on Jews is because hating Jews is acceptable to many while hating moslems is considered racsism and the liberals won't stand for that. Nazis and liberals have hating Jews in common.

 

so yeah in case you people wondered what kind of people are doing this here's one of them

 

Totally rediculous statement not grounded in any truth.

 

When you hold your religion morally superior to others I just thought it would be important for me to point out that Christians are no better than anyone else

 

You mean like all those tens of thousands of good people in the white supremist groups? They just love the Jews.,(sarcasm alert) Liberals are not anti-Semitic, The irony is most Jews are liberals

 

It's absolutely true and easily proven with the democratic party's infatuation with Farrakhan and the promotion of Keith Ellison.

 

As far as Screwy Louie Farrakhan they had not shown infactuation as far as I am concerned. Keith Ellison I do not know much about him but he seems to be the Democratic Party version of the caustic Gongrich guy.

 

You are wise beyond your years, or is that wise behind your Ears!

 

Well it's not my religion, I'm just trying to figure out what Christianity has to do with lynchings and tossing Jews in ovens. Your post seemed to imply that was Christian doctrine.

 

Because Christians are always condemning Muslims for their atrocities....and Christians are no better

 

It takes real ignorance to blame CHRISTIANITY FOR the atrocities of the National Socialists.

 

It takes real ignorance to blame Muslims for the atrocities on behalf ISIS

 

Let’s talk about the everyday Christians who destroyed Jewish property and stores and looted their homes as they were being dragged away. .all people are capable of atrocities...and that Includes Christianity.

 

National Socialists, 80 years ago? By all means, be my guest!

 

Who blames the Muslims that are in battle against AQ and ISIS and who actively and consistently denounce their deadly theology of violent conquest?