1.11 Antisemitism:
Why Is There so Much Hatred Toward Jews and Israel?
Antisemitism has been around since Biblical times. Modern antisemites incite hatred of Israel by spreading hostile misinformation about the war between Israel and Hamas that started in October 7, 2023. After Hamas and civilians from Gaza invaded Israel on October 7 and committed genocide against the Jewish communities they could destroy antisemites called it resistance. When the Israelis responded with a war of resistance against Hamas, antisemites called it genocide. This is especially evil considering that Israel does everything it can to avoid killing Arab civilians and Hamas does everything they can to kill Jewish civilians. Where does all the hatred that leads to this misinformation come from?
Religions generally teach that the infidels are bad. That is because they are afraid the non-believer will cause believers to have doubts in the religion. Religious leaders don't want their followers to have doubts. From the Muslim point of view, Jews and Christians are infidels. The Arabic word for infidel is Kafir. Islam teaches that the Jews tried to kill Muhammad. Christianity teaches that the Jews pressured the Romans into killing Jesus. They teach this because the original Christian and Muslim leaders viewed anyone who disbelieved in their holiness and communication with God as a threat to their power and influence. You can read how Islam condemned Jews in its holy books here and how Christianity condemned the Jews here. In 1965 the second vatican council of the the Catholic church released a document called the Nostra Aetate which taught that Jews were not responsible for the death of Jesus. Today there are Christian groups that support Israel such as Christians United For Israel and the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews. Islam has not undergone such a reformation. There are Muslims who would like to reform Islam but who are afraid to do so. There has been some cooperation between Saudi Arabia and Israel because they have a common enemy in the Islamic country of Iran but that is the extent of it. Iran has declared openly its intention to annihilate Israel.
Anti-semitic Muslims have become students at American universities where they spread anti-Israel and anti-Jewish propaganda. Well funded Muslim organizations in the United States spread anti-Israel propaganda. The Nation of Islam, a black organization is virulently anti-semitic. Ironically the Islamic holy books do not portray blacks in a favorable light and even today blacks are enslaved by Muslims.
Black Lives Matter spreads anti-Israel propaganda and anti-Israel and anti-Jewish propaganda is being spread in American schools.
Tania Joya is a woman who was brainwashed by other Muslims and married a leader of the Islamic State a cruel Muslim terrorist group that at one point took over a large part of the Middle East. She left the group and fled to England. In the video below she talks about antisemitism in the Koran. The Koran is the Bible of the Islamic religion. Muslims believe the Koran to be the word of God as dictated to Muhammad by the archangel Gabriel.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali was born in Somalia and grew up being taught to hate Jews. She talks about why she was taught to hate Jews in the video below and how the hate is being spread throughout the world.
She mentioned how the Iranians are spreading hate toward Israel all over the world. Here is a video of them doing just that among leftists in America. This video was recorded by the Free Press you can see their writeup about it by clicking here. In Iran, leftists and radical Muslims overthrew the Shah after which the Muslims eliminated the leftists. That hasn't prevented leftists in America from being manipulated by Muslims. What is really bizarre is how gays rally to Muslim causes when radical Muslims kill gays. Ayaan Hirsi Ali also mentioned how hatred is being spread in social media like Tiktok.
The New York Post had an article about New York City subway riders chanting "Iran you make us proud" after Iran fired over 300 drones and missiles at Israel.
Radical Islamic scholars explain below that their hatred of the Jews is based on their Islamic faith in the video below. Allah is Arabic for God.
Arabs tell non-Arabs that they fight Israel because Israel is occupying Arab land, yet one of the Imams in the video explains that Muslims would hate Jews whether or not they occupy Arab land. Another way the Arabs preach hate is by spreading propaganda that Israelis are killing innocent Palestinians. The Arabs attack Jews, the Jews are forced to defend themselves, Palestinian civilians who are being used by terrorists as human shields get killed, and that becomes propaganda that the Jews are killing innocent Palestinians.
Jews were in Israel long before there even was an Islamic religion and long before the Arab invasion. How can Jews be occupying Islamic land if the land was theirs first?
The wars in the Middle East against Israel are not the result of a dispute over land. They are caused by the Islamic religion which commands Muslims to fight the infidel. The Koran teaches Muslims that they are executors of the wrath of Allah. It commands"
"Fight them, Allah will punish them by your hands." (chapter 9 verse 14)
Sandra Solomon, a Palestinian, explains below that land is not what the conflict is about. She says her father was a leader of Fatah. Fatah is a Palestinian Terrorist organization that is part of the Palestinian Authority.
In the video below you will see Palestinian children brainwashed by their teachers into hating Jews. You will see Imams brainwashing Muslims. The Palestinian Authority and Hamas want to eliminate Israel and they way to do that is to incite hatred toward Israel and toward the Jews. In America many teachers brainwash children into believing that America is systemically racist. The real systemic hatred is not toward blacks in America but is in the schools and mosques and media of Muslim countries and is aimed toward Jews.
There is a non-religious reason that people hate the Jews which is jealously of Jewish success. Thomas Sowell explains below.
Alan Dershowitz makes a similar argument in the video below.
Anti-semitic Muslims have become students at American universities where they spend anti-Israel and anti-Jewish propaganda. Well funded Muslim organizations in the United States spread anti-Israel propaganda. Black Lives Matter spreads anti-Israel propaganda and anti-Israel and anti-Jewish propaganda is being spread in American schools. They have been very successful. Alan Dershowitz talks about antisemitism on American campuses in the video below.
Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida speaks about it too in the video below.
On October 7, 2023 Muslims from Gaza invaded Israel and murdered entire families. By the time the Israel Defense Forces stopped them they had murdered 1200 people and taken hundreds of hostages. People put up posters with faces of the hostages in New York to get support for their release. One woman put them up in her store and an angry mob of Hamas supporters attacked her store. You can see a video of that by clicking here.
One Jewish woman on the upper east side of Manhattan was wearing a necklace that said "Bring them Home" which referred to the hostages kidnapped by Hamas. She was surrounded by anti-Israel protesters who called her a Nazi bitch. Her daughter explained that to the mob they were Jewish probably thinking that the mob mistakenly thought they were Nazis and so by explaining that she was Jewish the mob would stop being angry at them. Instead the mob came around her car and started screaming, ‘You murderous Jews,’ ‘Death to all you Jewish bastards,’ and banged on her car, The protesters also put stickers on her car and wouldn’t allow her to move her vehicle, all while chanting, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” and “Death to America,” among other things.
Why so much anger against Jews after Hamas massacred Jews in Israel? One would expect sympathy for the Jews and anger at Hamas not the opposite. One reason was that Israel retaliated and fought back against Hamas. This led to a propaganda war in which Palestinians accused Israel of committing genocide against Palestinians and showed devastating videos of Palestinian victims of Israeli bombing that got people outraged against Israel. Nevermind that if Israel hadn't been attacked no one in Gaza would have been hurt. Nevermind that most of the videos were fake. Nevermind that Hamas was shooting from locations where there were civlians so that if Israelis shot back to defend themselves they hit civilians. Nevermind that Hamas had deliberately killed Israeli civilians on October 7, 2023, and Israel does all it can to avoid killing civilians in Gaza. Nevermind that if Israel doesn't wipe out Hamas Hamas will massacre more Israelis in the future. The sad truth is that many people don't think critically and are easily fooled by Arab propaganda. I wrote one reason and not the reason above. That's because on October 8th before Israel retaliated at all there were big demonstrations against Israel throughout the world.
Antisemitism does not just hurt Jews. Hitler used antisemitism to manipulate the Germans into attacking other countries. He said in his Reichstag speech that the outbreak of war would bring about the end of European Jewry. That was a way of selling going to war with Europe to the antisemites of Germany.
Former hostage Kenneth Timmerman wrote a book called Preachers of Hate in which he wrote "What Begins With Jews Doesn't End with Jews" Rabbi Sacks, a former member of the House of Lords in England started his speech the same way. He said:
The hate that begins with jews never ends with Jews. It was not Jews alone who suffered under alone under Hitler. It was not Jews alone who suffered under Stalin. It isn't Jews aone who suffer under ISIS or Al Qaeda or Islamic Jihad. We great mistake if we think antisemitism is a threat only to Jews. It is a threat first and foremost to Europe and the freedoms it took centuries to achieve. Antisemitism is not about Jews. It is about antisemites. It is about people who can't accept responsibility for their own failures and instead have to blame someone else...Antisemitism means denying the right of Jews to exist collectively as Jews with the same rights as everyone else.
There are people who say that hostility toward Israel is not the same as hostility to Jews. Rabbi Sacks points out that people who are against Zionism often attack Jews. Anti-Zionism is often antisemitism. You can hear Rabbi Sack's 20 minute speech in the video below.
You can hear Rabbi Sack's 20 minute speech in the video below.
Jeff Jacoby, in an article called "The Cancer of Antisemitism in Europe wrote: "When civilized nations fail to rise up against the Jew-haters in their midst, it is often just a matter of time before the Jew-haters in their midst rise up against them."
Jeff Jacoby has written many articles about antisemitism. There are many web pages about different aspects of antisemitism on this web site. To see a list click here.
Links For Further Reading:
This is a link to a terrific article that shows that no matter what Israel does and not matter how little Israel has to do with conflicts around the globe people find a way to blame Israel. The article title is: Ukraine shows hating Israel isn't about the Palestinians.
Exposing the Soviet Lie of Israeli Apartheid
My worst moments of antisemitism
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