Is there a problem with Semitism?

Much has been said about Anti-Semitism but before Anti-Semitism there was Semitism of which little is said.

Before we start its a bit meaningless as all the tribes of the region are Semitic. But the most famous Semitism and the one most people associate with Semitism is Jewish Semitism. This is the promotion of the Jewish race.

Most imfamously when the Germans got sick of the impoverishment caused by the Versailles Agreement of 1919 they fought back to reassert themselves generating what might be called "Germanism" or "Saxonism" as the Germans viewed the English as the same race. They promoted the Saxon races above other races, and in particular the Jews were suppressed.

Now the problem with these "-ism" is this. Supposing a Semitist (e.g. a Zionist) meets a Saxonist (e.g. a Nazi). The Saxonist will promote people of their own race. The Semitist will say well I'm not a Saxon so I don't care about you I will promote my own Semitic people. And the Saxonist will say well I don;t care about you I'm not Semitic I will promote my own people. It starts small, but as the assumpion that you will be rejected by the other group in favour of their own, and that they may even be working against you becomes entrenched, the divisions grow. And this is what happened in Nazi Germany. The Germans stopped helping the Jews but it is important to realise the Jews stopped helping the Germans. You cannot have two gods. As an "-ist" you cannot be Semitic and Saxon at the same time. You either promote Saxon people, or you promote Jewish but not both. I know almost nothing of Hitlers views but on Wikipedia there is a passage from his book were he expresses exactly this problem. Jews are not Germans. I don't think this was a German problem as much as a Jewish problem. Ask a Semitic Jew - they do not see themselves as Saxons. If Germans are Saxons with Saxon culture then Hiter was right Jews are not Germans, and Jews would have agreed with him - they do not see themselves as Saxons.

After the horrors of WW2 a solution was proposed to this problem. People stopped being "-ists". The Germans were told that they were no longer a race of people, bur rather a Nation that embodied people of all races. The same has happened across Europe and America. So Saxons now live alongside the rich ethnic diversity of Europe and the world. Obviously a "pure race" like the Germans and the Jews both believed and believe in is a myth anyway. Everyone has mixed parentage. In UK while the Nazis may have felt kindred racial identity with us, we are a mix of celtic, spanish (the beaker folks), gaul, saxon, angle, jute, roman, danish (viking) and an ever increasing huge genetic diversity and cultural heritage. Hitler famously had Jewish ancestry, and Jews if they are honest have a diverse ancestry also. They are not homogenous and there are many branches of the Jewish tribes. The Ashkenazi contraversially for example I believe do not even originate from the Levant.

So it seems the whole Western world has moved on from the Nazis except the Jews. While the Germans have stopped being Saxonist the Jews have remained as Semitic as they were before the war. They still believe in promoting their own people based on race, they believe their race is pure and distinct from other races also. Indeed the very racist attitudes that started the whole problem have not changed at all. As long as people view themselves as fundamentally different from others they will generate distrust. Cultural difference is fine - we don't all need to celebrate Christmas, Hannukka or Diwali or wear suits, Hasidic dress or Saris but we need to be open and freely share this culture with others. The moment this culture becomes an exclusive right (of who?) then the barriers are up. If because of bloodline for example people become exluded then social problems will start to emerge, barriers between communities will form and differences deepen and entrench. We had this problem with the old global aristocracies. Wealth passed on by bloodline led to fundamental divisions in society controlled by marriage. Eventually society ended these bloodlines in the guillotine. It is the risk faced by all closed bloodlines - the only way for insiders to get in is either by marriage or by spilling that blood.

So Anti-semitism is not the real problem. Anti-semitism is only a reaction to another problem: namely Semitism. But what can we do about this? Ironically Anti-Semitism is the solution. But I say that very, very carefully so as to be misunderstood!!!! I reject violence.

Anti-Semitism is not racism. It is not saying that the Jews are an inferior people with less rights than other people. That is no better than Semitism (which says that the Jews demand better treatment than other people). It is rather exactly what it says: a demand for the end of "Semitism" in exactly the same way that the Anti-Disestablishmentarianists demanded an end to Disestablishmentarianism.

For the world to be peaceful people must respect one another equally, and especially not based on race or colour. If you run to someones help do not discriminate based upon their race or colour. A black person should not help the black person becase they are black, and the Jew should not help the Jew because they are a Jew. You help people because they are friends or family or because you resect their basic humanity. Indeed ultimately we should aim to see only the humanity in our fellow humans. This way society remains fluid and free.

At the moment the focus in not on help but on harm. They say you should not harm someone based on race or colour. A black person should not harm a white person based on colour, and a Jew should not harm an Arab based on race. But no one should be harming anyone so this is rather missing the point. Racism is about treating people differenly based on race which makes Semitism a racism.

What a different place the Middle East would be with an enforced end to all this nonsense racism from both Jews and Arabs. Indeed it used to be like that in the Past where Jews and Arabs lived together without deep divisions. The advanced Western world should impose absolute restrictions on the Middle East and enforce a change of dialogue completely away from race and religion. I fear however the biggest opponents to this will be the Semites who with each generation seem to entrench this medaeval way of bloodline thinking and division ever deeper.

On reflection it is extraordinary in this analysis how the very dialogues that are being closed down of "anti-semitism" are actually the ones that will lead to peace. And how a persisting fear of examining the multi-lateral problem that led to the Holocaust have completely frozen progress in this particularly difficult subject. This insistence on supporting Semitism and promoting the differential treatment of people based on race cannot ever lead to peace between people because it is based on inequality. The Middle-East is currently built by several generations of inept fools on inequality and the security of the people there is thus built on inequality. This apparent secuity is in reality no-security.

== Update

It is extraordinary on further reflection that we are philosophically still in the same place we were in 1930 even after the deaths of 12million people in Nazi concentration camps and 6millions Jews we are, if anything, in a worse place than then.

The problem in 1930 was the belief that there was a pure race of Aryans and a pure race of Jews. I think in the 21th Century the idea of a pure breed of Aryans is not so popular, but the belief in a pure race of Jews is actually far worse. It is so rampant that there is even a country built upon this belief now. Exactly how we are to see the difference between a Germany built upon the idea of a pure race of Aryans and an Israel built upon a pure race of Jews I am currently completely at a loss to understand. The "Pure Race of Jews" (PRJ) can scream anti-semitism all they like, either I am stupid (for which they shouldn't really discriminate against me its just low IQ) or there is a philosophical problem here.

Its a very deep problem as well. I just posted on Species and realise its a very similar problem to "Jews". Much time is spent projecting "species", even by people who know full well that species are mutable, and change all the time and even go exitinct. It is the same with races. We all know that races are not pure, they change and they can even go extinct. Perhaps deliberately trying to make a species or race go extinct is wrong (except perhaps wth some diseases) but that they can and do is not a question. A quick DNA test on any Jew will prove to them that (1) they are of mixed parentage (2) there is no real "Jew Gene" difference between them and anyone else. Its just the same with Aryans. There simply is no such thing essentially. People can be more one thing than another, but are absolutely and definitively are not purely one thing. I blame Plato for this type of thinking, but perhaps we can blame thinkers who "identify with being" Jewish as well. I'd need to know more about Jewish thinking to see where they went wrong. The extraordinary irony here is that the type of questions I'm asking are very much Aryan thinking from places like India. How odd that such a notorious period in our history contains such deep resonances. It is for ths reason that we shouldn't just do a case-closed on it. When 80 million people die, it was far from a simple case-closed.

Jews are not the only problem. Arabs are too. Only last week the NEWS was referring to Qatar as an "Arab host." How can Qatar be Arab. Arabs are people: Qatar is a country? It is as bad as Israelis calling Israel a Jewish Nation. Jews are people: Israel is a country (created it should be noted by Gentiles. How non-kosher and Isur is that!). True Qatar is home to a majority of Arabs who follow an Arab culture and identity, but this can change. The Arabs can lose their culture: start wearing jeans, start eating sausages and burgers and start speaking American. They quickly will cease to be Arabs. They can have partners from other parts of the world and soon Qatar is not Arab at all. Some conservationists (conservatives, traditionalists) may try to stop this indeed it might be a good thing if the new habits are bad habits, but change is not avoidable. It should be pointed out that no-one was Muslim before Muhammad, Arabs were not Muslim at some point. How much else did they gain on the way through history and how much is really not changeable? Unsettling questions for people who hold strongly to an identity. But if we are to live together we can't hold that strongly. The tiger may not be the lion, but they are both cats. Where there is difference, there is also similarity. And the more different a Jew thinks they are from an Arab the more similar they are. They are ultimately both Semites who worship the same God and prophets. Perhaps it is the similarity which makes them feel so different. Quite why the Germans and Jews came to feel so different is also probably because of similarity too. They both think they are pure superior races so much so in fact that they both forgot that they are all humans. We are reminded of the 6 million innocent Jews who died, but 9 million mostly innocent Germans died also. A tragedy not for Jews or Germans but for all of Humankind.