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[edit] Moved from Anti-Semitism
As anti-semitism is about 4 times the desired length, this sub-article was created so this aspect of anti-semitism could be fully developed. I have not made any content changes, but have copied en-masse, and made the appropriate (I believe references in each area).Greroja 22:20, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Theoreticians of antisemitism
This article is almost devoid of mention of any of the overt theorists of antisemitism. For example, I'm amazed not to find the name Alfred Rosenberg here. - Jmabel | Talk 19:14, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Thank You For This Article: It's About Time!
I'm very glad that this article was created. It seems to me that almost ALL strains of anti-Semitism throughout history have been RACIAL rather than RELIGIOUS, and especially in the 19th, 20th, and 21st Centuries, ever since anthropology, eugenics, sociology, and so forth were created. For instance, I notice these days that anti-Semitism is on the rise in the USA; it may be imperceptible to some, but unfortunately it's happening. It seems that the American people are finally beginning to realize that Jews are in fact a race/ethnicity quite distinct from the Caucasian majority, and that they use the Jewish religion as a means of community cohesion and carrying forth their long-standing traditions (including intermarriage). Now, many modern people (in the USA and most other nations) could care less what religion you adhere to (because we are now post-post Enlightenment), but like it or not racial consciousness is still a very real thing in the world, with racial discrimination being much more common than religious prejudice almost everywhere. And in many respects, whether they are religious or not, Jews are some of the most racially conscious people on this Earth. This, it seems, is why anti-Semitism still exists -- it is and has always been RACIAL prejudice rather than RELIGIOUS prejudice: this is the key point that only now are many Americans beginning to understand. Some thought that the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948 would put the myth that Judaism is only a religion to rest, seeing that only ethnic/racial Jews are/were allowed to settle there; even today DNA tests are sometimes conducted to prove or disprove Jewish ancestry if there is a question regarding the emigre's (Jewish) racial heritage. Of all the Jews that emigrate to Israel, it's obvious that most of them (especially if they are Ashkenazi) don't attend a synagogue regularly once they arrive, thus rendering them non-religious Jews, much like the vast majority of Jews in New York City (do you think that there are enough synagogues in NYC to hold that many Jews? NOPE.). However, synagogue or not, they remain Jews. It seems that Jews could do much to defuse the rising racial tension (anti-Semitism) by fully acknowledging that they are, in fact, a racial/ethnic group. For instance, since religious life was basically obliterated under the atheistic government of the USSR, many of the Jews that remained in Russia and other parts of Eastern Europe were in fact atheists; yet ever since the USSR fell thousands upon thousands of ETHNIC Jews have since gone to Israel seeking a better life, even though they or their family had long since left their ancestral religion behind. Now, even though they were entirely non-religious they were let in to Israel because they were ethnically Jewish. Israel's glaring status as an ethnostate should put to rest any more mistruths regarding the ethnic/racial status of world Jewry. --172.166.83.17 12:36, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
- Um. The Jews have always identified as a people, not just as a religious group. Halakha always considered being a Jew a matter of ancestry (or adoption), not belief (see Who is a Jew?. Herzl's Zionism was never on a religious basis: religious Zionism was a latecomer to the picture, and never dominant. And it is precisely as a people, not as a religious group, that we were persecuted by the Nazis: they persecuted Roman Catholics who they considered Jewish. I have no idea why you think that an "acknowledgment" that has, in fact, been made for millennia would defuse anti-Semitism. - Jmabel | Talk 07:48, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
Yes it's true that by most it has always been identified as a race, but for some ridiculous reason there are numerous people in America who say it's not an ethnicity and I have no idea where they're coming from. I'm an Italian-Jew(though I practice Christianity), and to tell me that there is no Jewish race is just as strange and outlandish as saying there is no italian race, and these are both very silly. In fact, it's quite easier to identify the jewish race than most other races because there is the biblical account of the very man from whom every Jew descends, Abraham. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 141.153.197.21 (talk • contribs) 2 December 2006.
[edit] Pseudo-scientific theories
I've added some changes; there was: "Modern European antisemitism has its origin in 19th century pseudo-scientific theories that the Jewish people are a sub-group of Semitic peoples;" The jews indeed are people of semitic origin. I hope it's not a vandalism.--Igor "the Otter" 07:15, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
- I've copyedited Igor's change, while basically agreeing. But we still don't characterize those theories very clearly. We say that the theories hold "that the Semitic peoples, including the Jews, are entirely different from the Aryan, or Indo-European, populations, and that they can never be amalgamated with them." "Entirely different" is vague. So is "can never be amalgamated". Different in character and temperament? Different in a biological sense? "Can never be amalgamated" in what sense? - Jmabel | Talk 07:18, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Using race/ethnicity to further breed anti-Semitism
Anti-semitism isn't just a type of religious hatred, but a morbid fear and deep hatred for anything "Jewish" documented by atrocities is various but stemmed from the same prejudices. Jews were persecuted for other reasons under fascism (the Nazis in terms of "racial inferiority"), communism (the Soviets due to their "capitalist urges"), the far left (some neo-pagans and a few atheists), the far right (reactionary groups like the KKK), and radical types of socialism ("anti-colonial" elite Zionists) and conservatism (World church of the creator) in America, Europe or worldwide.
The idea of "Jewish people" have power to manipulate the world is absurd, but constructed on theories on what made Jews the way they are (i.e. religious denomination and historic resistance against tyranny). Because the Jews (i.e. descendants of Hebrews or Israelites) are a different race, or worse, a human "subspecies" is false and odious. While to seek genealogical records of millions of Jews in the faith, you may find high levels of ethnic diversity after thousands of years, the Jews lived in many different countries among its' ethnic groups acquired new converts, as much some Jews may turned Christian, like the case of Marranos in 15th/16th century Spain.
Anti-Semitic theories abound in racial and ultra-nationalist literature in the 1920's on whether or not the first Jews came from Africa or to link them with "Afro-Asian Semites", where dark-skinned "Negroid" races indigenous to the Nile River valley of Egypt and Sudan lived there, hence the biblical Exodus tale of the Jews' flight to Canaan from slavery in Egypt, is highly accepted of certain sects of Judaism, like the Black Israelis/Jews in the US, and obviously the Black Nation of Islam or Black Moslems are notably hostile to Jews shares anti-Semitic theories of "Jews controlled black Americans".
Other psuedoscientific claims of the Jews' racial origins is the Kazar Turks in Eastern Europe, a Mongoloid not Indo-European (Caucasian) people from Central Asia converted to Judaism in the 12th century AD, in order for the Kazar rulers to "conquer and rule Russia", is detailed in the controversial 1970's novel The 13th Tribe written by Dr. Arthur Kostler, an Austrian anthropologist, is widely popular to many anti-Semite readers and appeals to hate groups (most made up of white racists) to pass out the book as neo-Nazi propaganda to new recruits.
Then came the "mulatto" theory of Jews and other Mediteranean peoples of Greece, Italy, Spain and the Middle East...Jews are a byproduct of "unholy" miscegenation for thousands of years with "brown" or "Armenoid" peoples from India, Persia, Syria and Arabia. We knew the Jews left their homeland as a diaspora, but theory said those Jews continued to intermarry and convert gentiles continued their "mixed" race of white but possibly "alien" ethnic lineage before the era of forced segregation from the rest of Christendom in the 2nd millennia AD.
And note the invasions of Arabs, Moors, Turks and Saracens from Africa occupied Southern Europe from the 700s AD to the early 1900s, if not Jewish but Muslims or had some African blood mated with the local "white Christian" peoples. This conception of foreign "races" from the South and the East (the Mongols under Genghis Khan) was adapted and used to further promote a racist and nationalist agenda in the late 1800's and increased after World War I, when the rise of Nazis and fascists gained ground in a politically instable Europe for many but not all people, due to ones' religion or nationality, started turning against each other enough to produce the holocaust.
In the US since the 1960's came far-right and white nationalist groups not only disliked African Americans, because of their race and skin color, but equated the supposed friendship of blacks and Jews as allies against white supremacy...the "liberal East Coast mixed-race" Jews are solely responsible for the civil rights movement, running the mass media, left-wing politics and mandated racial integration, don't hold any proof of evidence to back it up and anyone could tell a high number of white Christian activists in the civil rights movement to defend and protect the rights of African Americans.
Lately, the rightist fringe blamed American Jews, for representing a large percentage of a "rich college-educated liberal elite" (a well-rooted general Jewish stereotype) created an ideology of multiculturalism through Hollywood, big business ethics, labor unions, the UN or globalization, and "political correctness" to give all "non-white" minorities (and women, homosexuals, the poor, the disabled and illegal immigrants) too much power over the "white European straight Christian male rule", gained wide acceptance in most anti-government militias and certain sects of Christian fundamentalism.
No doubt, there are far-left and Communist anti-semites whom worked with Islamic radicals and terrorists with the common goal to abolish or destroy Israel, the Jewish state planted in the middle of the Arab world, deeply opposed by most countries in the Middle East. But the conception of Israel is "ran by wealthy American Jews" denied the right for Palestinians (the region's "native" Muslim Arabs) independence and Israeli "territorial expansion" in the occupied territories, can be vicious enough to generate traditional anti-Semites to reach out to Islamist terror groups.
I feel the far-left's anti-Israel campaign and radical Islam's desire to eliminate Israel focused less on racial and religious hatred (but a major cause of anti-Zionism not only against Israel but the Jews themselves), due to the Arab anti-Semitism (but Arabs are members of the Semitic language family, also originated in the Arabian peninsula for thousands of years) repeatedly state this had to do with politics and economic factors, but otherwise they don't like Israeli Jews therefore are labeled anti-Semites.. and may hate Jews and other westerners for racial reasons. + 63.3.14.129 23:23, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
