#christianantisemitism

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Using Christianity to justify antisemitism. A new Danish Bible translation wishes to pretend that the Christian Bible contains no mention of Israel. The official excuse is so that people do not confuse Israel with the modern day state. Meanwhile, no references to Egypt were removed for the same reason, showing that the true reason is antisemitism by pandering to those who hate the Jewish State alone. 

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"White Crucifixion." Marc Chagall, 1938. #GoodFriday #Passover #contextiseverthing #ChristianAntisemitism #pogroms #arthistory #Symbolism

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The hashtag #FirstAntisemiticExperience which I started a couple of days ago has shown me several things. This thread will pull together what I believe we can learn from it, and what conclusions we should draw from it.

Please follow me to get other insights into being a #Jew

1/15

First: thanks to the journalists who picked up on this #FirstAntiSemiticExperience - they’ve helped spread the hashtag. However I am not sure they understood it’s implications fully, it seems they missed that these encounters with #antisemitism happened years, decades ago!

2/15

This is a record therefore of #FirstAntisemiticExperience from the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s. My son teeeted one from about 2009. That may be the most recent one!! 

Historic #antisemitism. But real nonetheless

So let’s examine what sorts of experience we had:

3/15

There is the ancient #FirstAntisemiticExperience of being informed, often by soneibevyou thought was your friend, that they can’t be friends any more (and often become your enemy) cos you killed Jesus. Classic #ChristianAntisemitism, no longer common in mainstream churches.

4/15

The #FirstAntisemiticExperience of the slur on Jews and money is depicted here mostly by the stingy Jew slur, throwing small denomination coins at Jews. This has connections to banking/Rothschild slurs. It is possibly less common today but who knows, clearly was a 70s thing.

5/15

There is Far Right violence against Jews, kids getting set upon fir difference. This #FirstAntisemiticExperience is the most violent and immediately dangerous, evidently something we can all identify. Yet it is only one of many forms of #antisemitism. Don’t forget others…

6/15

Then there is the #JewsHavehorns thing. This #FirstAntisemiticExperience apparently more common in the USA than in the UK. It comes from mistranslation if Hebrew when Moses comes down from Mt Sinai, w “rays of light”. Ray קרן in Hebrew also = horn. Michaelangelo’s Moses! 7/15

#FirstAntisemiticExperience I would expect the Blood Libel to have petered out, but it still holds on, little St Hugh of Lincoln and St William of Norwich (neither *actually* canonised) were invented in the UK, and this lie made it over to Arab lands where it’s now common.

8/15

Then there’s the #FirstAntisemiticExperience using political lies - invented by the Tsarist police and documented in Hadassah Ben-Itto’s superb book “The Lie that Wouldn’t Die” about the Protocols of the Elders if Zion. This evil forgery is sold in many Muslim countries.

9/15

And the final #FirstAntisemiticExperience is that of #antiZionist #Antisemitism in many antisemites, like @JeremyCorbyn, hatred of Israel has replaced hatred of Jews. You’re up to 8 times more likely to be antisemitic if you’re antiZionist. This is a very Left wing problem.

10/15

What lessons can we take from #FirstAntisemiticExperience?

First: solidarity. I’ve seen most forms of the oldest hatred, so I encourage everyone to show #solidarity with all victims - remembering that it hurts many of us even decades later. Support them. 

You’re not alone.

11/15

Second lesson from #FirstAntisemiticExperience: understand and learn where it comes from. Learn the history, inform yourself. @RachelRileyRR in her Channel Four interview said that she had learnt a lot. Good thing to do, if you want to end a/s. Jewish Literacy (Telushkin)

12/15

Third lesson from #FirstAntisemiticExperience: speak up. Learn the best response. Talk to your kids about it. Hold your head up high as aJew, be #ProudToBeJewish, #BeLouder - the antisemitism will always be there, if you make antisemites uncomfortable they won’t out selves.

13/15

Fourth #FirstAntisemiticExperience lesson 4, support @mishtal @GnasherJew @RachelRileyRR @TracyAnnO @TimesCorbyn and all the others who spend their time outing antisemitism. Follow them, retweet them and if they let you, donatevto support them. They do vital work. 14/15

I also ask *you* to support *me* In my work. I go out to teach children in local schools about Judaism, as part of the RE syllabus in the UK. Contact / donate to us at JCoB:

@RabbiZvi

[deborahdeshoftim5779]

Anti-Semitism from British Churches

A Jewish friend of mine told me yesterday that he was corned by Bishops from the Catholic Church across the road and asked to explain Israel’s actions, justify Netanyahu’s leadership, and justify President Trump. 

Regardless of whether you like Netanyahu or Trump, putting a British Jewish man on the spot by asking him to justify Israel’s response to an ongoing conflict in the Middle East is nothing short of anti-Semitism. And yet these Bishops and priests would insist that they have nothing against Jews personally. 

So why don’t they treat him as a British man, rather than as a scapegoat who has to be interrogated? 

Shocked at this display of anti-Semitism, but I suppose one cannot be surprised.