Antisemitism Isn’t About the Jews by Daniel Greenfield

[Almost Heaven]

Antisemitism is about many things, but it’s usually about much bigger things than the Jews. That is one of the things that makes antisemitism different from any of the conventional bigotries.

Marxists and Communists, beginning with Marx himself, used antisemitism to define capitalism as an evil and oppressive ideology. “Money is the jealous god of Israel before whom no other god may exist,” Marx argued. “The god of the Jew has been secularized and has become the god of the world.” Marx disliked the Jews, despite his ancestry, but he hated capitalism more.

And he wanted everyone else to hate it by associating capitalism with the Jews.

The Nazis, who borrowed much from the Marxists, used the same attacks on capitalism, but they also had a larger cultural agenda and made use of an even more militant antisemitism to replace the moral principles of Christianity with a neo-pagan racial modernism in which the disabled would be killed, marriage would be swapped for genetically compatible breeding programs to create a ‘master race’ and Jesus would become an Aryan warrior myth.

Like many modernist radicals, including Marx and Voltaire, Hitler believed that the best way to get at Christianity was by going after its biblical roots to make the Jews the objects of contempt and hatred, and to ridicule everyone opposed to his program as being in thrall to the Jews.

The current antisemitism is also rarely about the Jews. Both the woke left and the woke right are using antisemitism to sideline party establishments by painting them as complicit with Israel.

And any other policies they don’t like.

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[Margery]

Daniel is right as usual.
But
It's not about ideologies. It's a spiritual battle. And that is a hard concept even among Christians let alone secular Jews.

 

[Amethyst]

Daniel is right as usual.
But
It's not about ideologies. It's a spiritual battle. And that is a hard concept even among Christians let alone secular Jews.

Agree.
It’s too irrational to not be a purely spiritual issue
Demonic “egging on”

 

[mattfivefour]

Greenfield is his usual insightful and brilliant self. But the entire thing he uncovers is absolutely spiritual in nature. And it is only through the Holy Spirit that we can fight it. Christians need to make these things matters of intentional, focused prayer. Sure, we pray for ourselves and our families. And we pray for those we know who are in need. But do we pray for these things? We need to. Our being salt and light is vitally important, of course, in the physical world; but it is also critical in the spiritual world.