During preiods such as the middle ages, the persecution of Jews involved a lot of religious sentiments and passions. Jews as Christ-Killers, Jews were accused of various calamities, such as the black death, for which many Jews lost their lives, blood labels were popular in which Jews are presented as drinkers of the blood of Christian children in their holidays, and for making traditional Jewish food in holidays such as passover. the fact that Jews were limited in professions pushed Jews to pursue money-landing and accounting, professions that were deemed to be negative and were avoided in Christian tradition, this only increased animosity towards Jews.
Well, drinking childrens blood does not sound good, I wonder if there has been enough study to really exclude that this happened, blood sacrifices and similar things are very common in religious traditions, lets not just pass over such a remark to quickly now.
In religious themes, Jews were portrayed as diabolic, again as Christ-Killers, and as having occult powers. the concept of Jews being collectively responsible for the death of Christ was a strong instrument in the persecution of Jews.
Well, Jews
are responsible for the death of the fictional character "Jesus", this is a fact, read the New Testament.
The Old Testament (Torah) was written for Jews by Jews and to promote the Jewish people, whiles the New Testament (NT) was written by people who where also Jews, but seem to have wanted to
distance themselves from traditional Judaism. The character "Jesus" was a jew himself and according to the New Testament followed by the new religion 'Christianity', the (old) Jews where responsible for his execution.
Plain fact, nothing weird. This is like accusing Mel Gibson for being anti-semitic for
following the Biblical story, silly.
in the 19th and 20th century like the concept of 'Zionism vs' Jews' today many in the Catholic clergy wrote pieces against Jewish control of banking and Jewish power in general, and at the same time reminding critics that they are not criticizing Jews for being Jews but for their control and power... sounds familiar?
Sounds like the average Right wing fanatics we have today, should we call it typical semantics among people who show aggressive and hateful behaviour? Or just Human behaviour?
during the rise of nationalism in Europe and the movement of sentiments and passions from being focused on religious elements to nationalist elements, antisemitism gained a new nature, xenophobia was rampant and Jews were now being labeled and discriminated against on racial terms, and while Jews were a scapegoat on religious basis before, now Jews became the scapegoat for national troubles.
Somewhat over exaggerated, but fine.
a famous case is that of the Jewish French military Captain Dreyfus, who was charged at the end of the 19th century for spying for Germany. he was convicted and deported. only after the trial it was proven that he was not guilty. during his trial many French were up in arms about him and against Jews in general as his case was turned into a highlight, violence against Jews broke out.
I do not have enough un-biased information about the Dreyfus case to comment on this, but how would one example show the real deal in any case, kind of saying that George W Bush to be the example of American people, not very fair nor proper.
in Germany the Aryan myth vs the preceived Jewish liberalism gained momentum, and Jews were accused of economical calamities and as alien to the Aryan civilization. despite the fact that 150,000 Jews served in the German armed forces during the first world war with thousands of them being decorated with medals of honor, many blamed the Jews (and the socialists) for Germany's defeat.
I never heard that Jews was blamed for the loss in World War I, is this unbiased information you are contributing?
The Jews have a long history in Germany and have since 1930 been one of the most populated nations of Jews, so obviously you would have the most amount of problems relating to Jews, please do not forget this. I do find your comment on the Socialist to be a good one, many forget the anti-Socialism/Communism in Germany as well as somehow confuse pre-WWII Germany with being Socialist/Communist because of poor or no education on the subject.
the Nazi Party made it clear that Jews can never be part of the Volk, and with the economic woes and humiliating terms of losing the war, many groups were formed that let out these frustrations through public violence, later these men became instrumental in the genocide against Jews.
Now it is also worth noting that what was done
to Germany and the German people was wrong and this is what finally caused the Second World War. Germany got the complete blame for the First World War and punished thus, most people, especially in the U.S, have absolutely no clue about this and do not realize that the winning side set it up so this would eventually happen because of our anger towards Germany, if we acted properly this may never have happened.
Jews where only one of many people blamed, Blacks, Homosexuals, Gypsies but as the largest group and Hitler personal hatred against Jews made them a specific target but do not think this is somehow a unique event, if the same historic events and setup would happen in the U.S, We would have executed and murdered the Jews, just as would have happen in France of or Britain, this was not a specific 'German' case, this was because the majority of Jews where in Germany, so lets not pretend we are better.
