This morning a post was made that said anti-Semitism is RARE and...

Well it can be a problem but it's a RARE problem. There really are not very many people who are prejudiced specifically against Jews. A much bigger problem is the fact that vast numbers of people are still prejudiced against blacks, hispanics, Arabs and muslims in general along with various and sundry other groups of people.

Compared to all of the others the number of people who actually hate Jews is very small indeed. The only thing that makes it a problem is the fact that the term is used as a tool...

So, I decided to look up just how rare it is. I went to Wikipedia and searched Anti-Semitism in American and as no surprise to me 402 articles popped up...hum, not so rare apparently.

I went to part of an article called, Anti-Semitism . I'd like to recommend that Riley, Loree, and Americaislost and their enablers read these articles. It would be nice if they went to sites other than the ones which serve their purposes. They might actually get educated about what anti-Semitism is.

Twentieth century

In the first half of the twentieth century, in the USA, Jews were discriminated against in employment, access to residential and resort areas, membership in clubs and organizations, and in tightened quotas on Jewish enrollment and teaching positions in colleges and universities. The Leo Frank lynching by a mob of prominent citizens in Marietta, Georgia in 1915 turned the spotlight on antisemitism in the United States and led to the founding of the Anti-Defamation League. The case was also used to build support for the renewal of the Ku Klux Klan which had been inactive since 1870.

Antisemitism in America reached its peak during the interwar period. The pioneer automobile manufacturer Henry Ford propagated antisemitic ideas in his newspaper The Dearborn Independent. The radio speeches of Father Coughlin in the late 1930s attacked Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal and the notion of a Jewish financial conspiracy.

In the 1940s the aviator Charles Lindbergh and many prominent Americans led The America First Committee in opposing any involvement in the war against Fascism. During his July 1936 visit he wrote letters saying that there was “more intelligent leadership in Germany than is generally recognized.”

"While I still have my reservations, I have come away with great admiration for the German people. .. Hitler must have far more vision and character than I thought….With all the things we criticize he is undoubtedly a great man…. He is a fanatic in many ways and anyone can see there is fanaticism in Germany today…. On the other hand, Hitler has accomplished results (good and bad), which could hardly have been accomplished without some fanaticism."

America First avoided any appearance of antisemitism and voted to drop Henry Ford as a member for as much. Ford continued his good friendship with the prominent America First member Lindbergh. Lindbergh visited Ford in the summer of 1941. “One month later; Lindbergh gave a speech in Des Moines, Iowa in which he expressed the decidedly Ford-like view that, ‘The three most important groups which have been pressing this country towards war are the British, the Jews, and the Roosevelt Administration.’” In an expurgated portion of his published diaries Lindbergh wrote: “We must limit to a reasonable amount the Jewish influence….Whenever the Jewish percentage of total population becomes too high, a reaction seems to invariably occur. It is too bad because a few Jews of the right type are, I believe, an asset to any country.”

The German American Bund held parades in New York City in the late 1930s which featured Nazi uniforms and flags featuring swastikas along side American flags. The zenith of the Bund's history occurred 1939 at Madison Square Garden. Some 20,000 people heard Bund leader Fritz Kuhn criticize President Franklin Delano Roosevelt by repeatedly referring to him as “Frank D. Rosenfeld”, calling his New Deal the "Jew Deal", and espousing his belief in the existence of a Bolshevik-Jewish conspiracy in America. The New York district attorney prosecuted Kuhn. The US House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) were very active in denying their ability to operate. With the start of the US involvement in World War II most of the Bund's members were placed in internment camps, and some were deported at the end of the war.

Sometimes, during race riots, as in Detroit in 1943, Jewish businesses were targeted for looting and burning.

Of course, the Holocaust in Europe is one of the most prominent examples of antisemitism. Six million Jews, along with five million in other groups targeted by the Nazis were killed. This is seen by many as the culmination of generations of antisemitism in Europe.

Antisemitism was commonly used as an instrument for personal conflicts in Soviet Russia, starting from conflict between Stalin and Trostky ("Jews are trotskists, trotskists are Jews") and continuing through numerous conspiracy theories spread by official propaganda. Departament IV of NKVD was called "Jewsekcia" for its activity in "cleansing" party structures from Jews. Antisemitism in USSR reached its peak after 1948 during "rootless cosmopolitan" hatred campaign, when several hundreds of yidish-writing poets, writers, painters and sculptors were killed.

After the war, the Kielce pogrom and "March 1986 events" in communist Poland represented a further incidents of antisemitism in Europe. The common theme behind the anti-Jewish violence in the postwar Poland were blood libel rumours [2][3].

The cult of Simon of Trent was disbanded in 1965 by Pope Paul VI, and the shrine erected to him was dismantled. He was removed from the calendar, and his future veneration was forbidden, though a handful of extremists still promote the narrative as a fact. In the 20th century, the Beilis Trial in Russia represented incidents of blood libel in Europe. Unproven rumours of Jews killing Christians were used as justification for killing of Jews by Christians.

In the late twentieth century there were allegations of antisemitism against certain prominent American politicians. In 1981 the senator Ernest Hollings referred to fellow Democrat Howard Metzenbaum as the "Senator from B'nai Brith" on the floor of the Senate. In the context of the first US-Iraq war, on September 15, 1990 Pat Buchanan appeared on the McLaughlin Group and said that "there are only two groups that are beating the drums for war in the Middle East - the Israeli defense ministry and its 'amen corner' in the United States." He also said, "The Israelis want this war desperately because they want the United States to destroy the Iraqi war machine. They want us to finish them off. They don't care about our relations with the Arab world." When he delivered a keynote address at the 1992 Republican National Convention, known as the culture war speech, he described "a religious war going on in our country for the soul of America".

The Crown Heights riots of 1991 were a violent expression of tensions within a very poor urban community. They pitted African American residents against followers of Hassidic Judaism.

SG

You have entirely too fucking much time on your hands. Get a hobby, slackjaw.

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You argued your case well, so I have nothing to add... it just seemed that your post deserved some sort of a reply from someone who wasn't a complete cretin.

has been a problem in the past. However the doors are no longer closed to Jews that I know of. BTW I would not rely on Wikipedia any more for information on any subject that might pose opposition to the gov't position given the recent information about gov't and CIA computers being used to edit it.

If you were including me as an "enabler" let me assure you that I have read many articles on the subject from a wide variety of sources. The fact is that people who criticize zionism quickly get included in the anti-semitism label. If a person points out uncomfortable facts about something that Israel has done the label is quickly attached. You and cat may separate criticism of zionism and Israel from that of Jews in general, but so many don't. It all gets lumped together and that's by design.

Arkady:

You argued your case well, so I have nothing to add... it just seemed that your post deserved some sort of a reply from someone who wasn't a complete cretin.

Taking a total a cut n paste off wikeepeedeea,is quite impressive research, indeed.

rotfl.

sorry. couldn't resist.

But do realize your heart and sympathy was leading you here.

After the way she has treated me..I just don't feel as sympathetic towards her.

You NEVER point out what terrible things the palestinians do. But you take joy in pointing at the Jews every day.

the enablers know who they are.

As for wikipedia there were/are plenty of links within the article you can go to to see if what they say is true.

The comments you made about your post within the thread helped me to better understand what YOU were trying to say but your initial post came off quite differently.

I just find it hard to believe anyone would say anti-semitism is rare...from your opinion maybe but in my opinion the facts do not back it up.

SG

Well, at least two of you aren't like the other complete dumbasses.

KFS continues to get slimmed by the idiots.

SG

are very quick to point out whatever terrible things the Palestinians do so the subject gets well covered. What the media and folks like you don't point out is the terrible things the Israelis do. Just trying to create a bit of balance.

Now, tell me about those other groups that were treated as bad as the Jews during WWII. Jews were not the only peoples to suffer at the hands of Germany backed by the forefathers of our modern day president.

Keep up the history SG.

Seasoldier/What governs ANTI SEMITISM varies from one case to another, but I have found some of the reasons were actually brought on themselves by their acts concerning money, namely usuary fees. The TEN COMMANDMENTS and the 750 additional laws that the Jewish peoples put on top of God's Commands became to great a load to bare--no one really knew what law pertained to whom from region to region, nation to nation. When you look at ancient roofs for example, the Jewish nation had enlarged on God's Law to the extent that every roof had to have a railing around the edge, but this was not God's Law, was it? Instead, it was man's enfringing his garmets to appear above the law--better than the TEN COMMANDMENTS. The Christ did away with all those laws, including the TEN COMMANDMENTS when he successfully proved that man could obey God here on earth even in times when nations did not. Through his death and sacrifice is what made the old laws dissappear leaving only TWO LAWS with people to obey, one more than His Father gave Adam in the garden of Eden.

Southern Gal:

to recommend that Riley, Loree, and Americaislost and their enablers read these articles. It would be nice if they

You mentioned no names? You are goofy. Anyone that keeps harping on this subject has be making brownie points.

You make no arguments against what is posted, you or cat don't try to pick these arguments full of holes. No, of course just throw up that we post these articles because we are racist. Even when the post is written by Jewish persons same old bull shit.

Your article was and is very out dated. Henry Ford and Lind berg have been dead for many years. Before the second wold war there was indeed more general bad feeling about Jews granted. But with the discovery of Hitlers madness that is no longer the case.

In my opinion what anti-Jewish sentiment there exists now is generated by the actions of the people in Israel who feel they have a right to something not theres. By their actions they bring criticism on themselves.

I also have a link for you....

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Evidently more than just a few of us have an opinion on Jewish influence.

Despite whether they are Zionists, Orthodox Jews, or whatever, the common thread is that they do indeed consider themselves the 'Jewish Race', and their roots run back in history over 2,000 years.

When I posted my concerns, which were quite frankly, tampered with, so as to make them nearly unrecognizable, a few YEARS ago, unknown to me, I was in some pretty good company, as evidenced in the article on the link.

Seasoldier:

Now, tell me about those other groups that were treated as bad as the Jews during WWII. Jews were not the only peoples to suffer at the hands of Germany backed by the forefathers of our modern day president.

Keep up the history SG.

Seasoldier/What governs ANTI SEMITISM varies from one case to another, but I have found some of the reasons were actually brought on themselves by their acts concerning money, namely usuary fees. The TEN COMMANDMENTS and the 750 additional laws that the Jewish peoples put on top of God's Commands became to great a load to bare--no one really knew what law pertained to whom from region to region, nation to nation. When you look at ancient roofs for example, the Jewish nation had enlarged on God's Law to the extent that every roof had to have a railing around the edge, but this was not God's Law, was it? Instead, it was man's enfringing his garmets to appear above the law--better than the TEN COMMANDMENTS. The Christ did away with all those laws, including the TEN COMMANDMENTS when he successfully proved that man could obey God here on earth even in times when nations did not. Through his death and sacrifice is what made the old laws dissappear leaving only TWO LAWS with people to obey, one more than His Father gave Adam in the garden of Eden.

Reading the history of the Jewish people, is exactly what has earned them the reputation they have, that causes some people concern.

As you point out, there is the 'money' issue....Even Jesus took a whip and chased the money changers out of the Temple....those money changers, according to the Bible, WERE Jews.

How do you feel about, among dozens of OTHER famous people, warnsings from such great leaders as George Washington and Benjamin Franklin, about the 'evil' of Jews? When I learned that, I was quite surprised, as it isn't something 'taught' in school:-)

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tagged wrote the following post at 08/31/2007 1:55 PM:

You have entirely too fucking much time on your hands. Get a hobby, slackjaw.

Watch out who you're calling a bitch, you f***ing inbred.

Jack