WHY THE JEW????

ANTI-JEWISH FEELING

DURING THE PAST

2000 YEARS

THE ROOTS OF NAZI ANTI-SEMITISM

“THE JEWS HAVE DESERVED THE CATASTROPHETHAT HAS NOW OVERTAKEN THEM.

THEIR DESTRUCTION WILL GO HAND IN HANDWITH THE DESTRUCTION OF OUR ENEMIES.”

JOESEPH GOEBBELS 1942

“I AM TALKING ABOUT THE EVACUATION OF THE JEWS, THEEXTERMINATION OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE. IT IS ONE OF THOSE THINGS THAT IS EASILY SAID.” “THE JEWISH PEOPLE IS BEINGEXTERMINATED, EVERY PARTY MEMBER WILL TELL YOU, PERFECTLY CLEAR, IT’S PART OF OUR PLANS, WE’RE ELIMUNATINGTHE JEWS, EXTERMINATING THEM, A SMALL MATTER.”

HEINRICH HIMMLER SS OCT. 1943

DIFFERENT TYPES OF ANTI-SEMITISM

Y O U M A Y N O TLIVE A M O N G US A S JEWS

RELIGIO US

Y O U M A Y N O T LIVEA M O N G US

SEC ULA R

Y O UM A Y N O T

LIVE

RA C IA L

A N T I- SEM IT ISM3 T Y PES

RELIGIOUS ANTI-SEMITISM:

THROUGH THE MIDDLE AGES, THE PERSECUTION OF THE JEWSWAS BASED ON RELIGIOUS DIFFERENCES (RITUALS, BELIEF INJESUS AS THE MESSIAH, ETC.) IF JEWS WOULD CONVERT TOCHRISTIANITY, THEY WOULD BE ACCEPTED. IF THEY DID NOTCONVERT THEY WERE SEGREGATED, EXPELLED OF KILLED.

CAUSES OF CHRISTIAN NEGATIVE VIEW OF JEWS1. JEWS DO NOT SEE JESUS AS THE SON OF GOD2. EARLY CHRISTIANS BELIEVED JEWS KILLED CHRIST3. SATURDAY SABBATH4. KOSHER DIET5. WEARING OF LONG BEARDS6. REFUSAL TO CONVERT7. ALIENATION CREATION OF THE GHETTO AND BADGE8. USURY “INTREST AND BANKING9. WANDERING10. THE CRUSADES11. EXPULSIONS12 MATZO--PASSOVER AND CHRISTIAN CHILDREN

SECULAR ANTI-SEMITISM:

BEGINNING AROUND THE 18TH CENTURY, AS EUROPE BECAME LESSRELIGIOUS, JEWS SUFFERED SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DISCRIMINATION.THEY WERE FORCED TO LIVE IN RESTRICTED AREAS, DENIED CITIZENSHIP,EXCLUDED FROM VARIOUS OCCUPATIONS ETC. EVEN IF THEY CONVERTEDTO CHRISTIANITY, CHRISTIAN COMMUNITIES WOULD NOT ACCEPT THEM.

TOLERANCE ARRIVES FOR THE JEW IN ENGLAND, FRANCE ANDHOLLAND.

BUT…. IN ITALY, EASTERN EUROPE AND GERMANY THEYREMAIN ALIENATED AND PERSECUTED.

THE 19TH CENTURY BRINGS POPULAR RULE AND GREATERJEWISH ACCEPTANCE BY EUROPEANS AND CHRISTIANS.

RACIAL ANTI-SEMITISM

BY THE LATE 19TH CENTURY, JEWS WERE SEEN AS AN INFERIOR ANDDANGEROUS “RACE.” RACISTS ARGUED THAT, LIKE BLUE EYES,HISTORICALLY DETERMINED CULTURAL TRAITS SUCH AS BUSINESS SKILLSWERE PASSED ON THROUGH THE GENES. THE LOGIC OF THIS THINKINGLEADS TO EXTERMINATION.

JEWS WERE INFERIOR AS A RACE.1. FACIAL FEATURES2. CULTURE3. BODY TYPE4. BEHAVIOR5. DIET6. WANDERERS

JEWS WERE CONSPIRING TO OVERTAKE THE WORLD!!! IF ALLOWED TO LIVE THEY WOULD TAINT ALL THE

GOOD RACES WITH THEIR BLOOD!

THE NEGATIVE STEREOTYPE OF THE JEW

1. NOT A PART OF THE REGULAR COMMUNITY, JEWS WERE STRANGEOUTSIDERS, WANDERERS, WITHOUT ALLEGIANCE TO ANY LAND. THEYCOULDN’T BE TRUSTED.

2. JEWS WERE DEVILS OR DEVIL’S AGENTS WHO HAD REJECTED CHRISTIANITY AND CRUCIFIED CHRIST. GOD HAD THEREFORE CONDEMENED TO WANDER HOMELSS ALL OVER THE WORLD AND TO SUFFER. THEY DESERVED ALL THE PUNISHMENT COMING TO THEM.

3. EVIL JEWS WERE OUT TO TAKE OVER THE CHRISTIAN WORLD. THAT WAS WHY THEY SPREAD OUT AND DEVELOPED “CONNECTIONS” EVERYWHERE. THEY WERE WELL-POISONERS, CHILD KILLERS, RELIGIOUS ENEMIES.

4. ALL JEWS CARED ABOUT WAS MONEY. THEY CHEATED AND GRABBED ALL THEY COULD GET. THEY DID NOT WORK FOR A LIVING.

WHY THE JEWS?

BLAMED FOR CHRIST’S DEATH THEIR STRICT DIETARY DISCIPLINE

JEWISH COMMUNITIES WERE SPREAD ACROSS EUROPE ANDTHE MIDDLE EAST. THE TORAH KEPT THEM UNIFIED. THESAME LANGUAGE, DRESS CODES AND CULTURE.( CIRCUMCISION, READ FROM RIGHT TO LEFT, REFUSED TOPORK, GREW LONG BEARDS)

BLAMED FOR THE BLACK PLAGUE

ALWAYS A MINORITY GROUP.

THE GHETTO SYSTEM (1400)

MONEYLENDING

THE WONDERINGJEW

JEWS BECAME MERCHANTSDENIED THE RIGHT TOBE TRADES MEN.

THE PASSOVERMYTH 1200-1930’S

THEY LOOKEDDIFFERENT, SPOKEHEBREW AND WEREEASY TARGETS PEOPLEFEARED STRANGERS.

THEY BECAME EASYSCAPEGOATS IN TIMESOF TROUBLE.

THE PROTOCALS OF ZION. =

RELIGIOUSSECULARSOCIALPERSECUTION