31 Facts : Why is it always the Jews?

___________ Antisemitism Demystified _____________

1. Jew. The idea, even the word is something nobody is indifferent to.

2. The Jewish population worldwide is about 1 percent of the world’s population, but Jews have won between 20–35 percent of all Nobel Prizes. Nobody but us cares. Nobody but us is counting.

3. By numbers, Jews donate to charity more than any other ethnic group or denomination.

4. After 4000 years of recorded history, we have yet to find out why this universal hatred of the Jews exist.

“The historical destiny of the Jewish people is a mystery. The mere survival of this nation is completely unexplainable from a rational point of view. Regular historical explanations prove that this nation should have ceased to exist a long time ago. No other nation in the world could have sustained such a fate.” (N. A. Berdyaev, Russian religious and political philosopher.)

5. This deadly innate hostility is spreading aggressively across the world.

6. As the butterfly effect goes, everything affects everything else. So this little problem isn’t little any more.

7. No one in the world feels fear, uncertainty, and worry like the Jews. We have very special feelings of inferiority, fear, humiliation, dependency, and even guilt.

8. For some reason, the Holocaust always has the same story: Once there was such a terrible Hitler, he came to power, made the Holocaust, and then it was destroyed, and all was well. Truth is the Holocaust — was the result of centuries of Anti-Semitism, of deep-rooted hatred of Jews. Mini holocausts took place at different locations … Hitler’s only uniqueness is that he came to power and conquered the whole of Europe.

“It is common knowledge that the Holocaust and Anti-Semitism happened because Hitler came to power. In fact, it is the other way around: Hitler came to power because there was Anti-Semitism. He used Anti-Semitism to make people love him.” — Benjamin Netanyahu

9. Since then, Jews assimilated and many simply disappeared, vanished into other nations.

10. Like it or not, Jews are treated differently despite their endless efforts to blend, mingle, and integrate into local cultures.

11. Anti-Semitism, defies all logic and reason.

12. North Korea, with whom Israel have never had any relationship, hold first place in the world for Anti-Semitism!

13. History is replete with examples of Jews-turned-Anti-Semites who hated their own people so vehemently that they dedicated their entire lives to its destruction. BDS movement itself is rife with Jewish activists and Jewish organizations that support it, such as J Street, Jewish Voice for Peace, and Jews for Justice for Palestine.

14. Anti-Semitism is just about the oldest, most tenacious hatred; it will outlive all other hatreds. It is not really hatred of the Jews, but rather anger at the Jews.

15. We do not understand the hatred. We, the Jews neither wish to. Because to understand Anti-semitism and recognize the existence of such a hatred, is to recognize our hostile reality.

16. Turns out, Anti-Semitism is not an accident or a whim. It emerged in the times of Abraham.

“Anti-Semitism is ‘a shadow’ of the Jewish people. I am a physicist; I know that any object lays a shadow. ‘The shadow’ that is linked to my people is Anti-Semitism.” — Albert Einstein

17. If we search for a specific origin for Jews, we will not find one. Jewish nation is based on an idea, not on familial kinship or ethnic or biological affinity.

18. The “progenitor” of the Jewish nation was Abraham, It was said he was very concerned about the Babylonians way back, among whom he lived. He saw them growing increasingly hostile and with a competitive nature toward each other and wondered why this was happening.

19. Abraham chose to go a different way and decided to obtain the opposite nature from the nature of the Babylonians. He chose love and unity. The rest went with their ego, in the way of mutual competition.

20. Since then, two groups have evolved. The Group of Abraham, whom in the course of development, became the nation of Israel. And the Babylonians group, who scattered all over the globe and today includes 7 billion people.

21. This group of Abraham was much smaller than the rest of humanity but included people that succeed in overcoming their differences and bonded never the less above it.

22. It existed in such a state of unity. And no matter what forces of the ego that managed to push this grouping to disconnect. They covered it with forces of unity and brotherhood upon it. The group of Abraham worked on that. The group of Abraham are the Jewish people.

“Modern reformers, who are constructing model social systems, would do well to look into the social system under which the early Jews were organized.” — Henry Ford

23. Even Anti-Semites noticed the trait of unity among Jews.

“ The Jews were a lucky community because they had that corporate spirit, the spirit of their race and faith. [Churchill] would not … ask them to use that spirit in any narrow or clannish sense, to shut themselves off from others … far from their mood and intention, far from the counsels that were given them by those most entitled to advise. That personal and special power which they possessed would enable them to bring vitality into their institutions, which nothing else would ever give. A Jew cannot be a good Englishman unless he is a good Jew.” — Churchill

24. We, the Jewish people are that very part through which this general force of connection among us influences and acts upon everything else. So if we don’t connect correctly — well, the rest sort of suffers. All the good influences that passes through us to humanity go out negatively instead and lead to separation, opposition, and mutual hostility. Jews are the root of connection in the world.

“It is not forgotten that certain Promises were made to them [Jews] regarding their position in the world, and it is held that these prophecies will be fulfilled. The future of the Jew, as prophetically outlined, is intimately bound up with the future of this planet.” — Henry Ford

24. When Jews don’t connect by themselves, it gives rise to anti-Semitism. As soon as hostilities among the Jewish people arise, anti-Semites appear and begin to put pressure. And all in order to unite them.

“When they [Israel] are as one man with one heart, they are as a fortified wall against the forces of evil” wrote Rabbi Shmuel Bornstein.

25. A famous joke, that for every two Jews you have three opinions. We are notorious for our deep divisions within our communities on just about every public question ranging from presidential elections, marriage, divorce, conversion, military conscription, transportation, public prayer, gender segregation, secular Jews, orthodox Jews. Each inhabits largely separate social worlds, with relatively few close friends and little intermarriage outside their own groups.

26. In all of it’s irony, these very divisions — is why when Jews unite they create a bond like no other nation can.

27. Many have already linked the increasing fragmentation in Jewish societies to the rise in Anti-Semitism. Our hatred of each other causes non-Jews to hate us even more. They determine everything: as much as it is connected, the whole world is also connected. If the Jews are divided and even hate each other, then the whole world will also be like this.

“Since we were ruined by unfounded hatred, and the world was ruined with us, we will be rebuilt by unfounded love, and the world will be rebuilt with us.” — Rav Kook

28. Anti-Semitism is an expression of anger at Jews for not uniting and sharing the method of unity with the rest of the world. They blame, because they instinctively feel that everything depends on them.

“The Jew has been too long accustomed to think of himself as exclusively the claimant on the humanitarianism of society; society has a large claim against him that he cease his exclusiveness, that he cease exploiting the world, that he cease making Jewish groups the end and all of his gains, and that he begin to fulfill, in a sense his exclusiveness has never yet enabled him to fulfill, the ancient prophecy that through him all the nations of the earth should be blessed.” — Henry Ford

29. Because Anti-Semitism existed for centuries as a given phenomenon, there is nothing we can do about it. No amount of logic will help us. If this phenomenon has been observed for thousands of years, then we get to the bottom of why we occupy one place in nature and the rest of the world another.

“What is the Jew?…What kind of unique creature is this whom all the rulers of all the nations of the world have disgraced and crushed and expelled and destroyed, persecuted, burned, and drowned, and who, despite their anger and their fury, continues to live and to flourish? …The Jew is the symbol of eternity. … He is the one who for so long had guarded the prophetic message and transmitted it to all mankind. A people such as this can never disappear. The Jew is eternal. He is the embodiment of eternity” (“What is the Jew?” quoted in The Final Resolution, p 189, printed in Jewish World periodical, 1908).

30. As long as the Jewish people are a model of unity, they hold their own destiny within their hands. They put to use the “secret” that puzzled many over the Jews as they take reign over their role becoming a light unto the nations.