So if I say "all Jews should be killed" what is my meaning?
Apparently the most Anti-Semitic thing you can say. Light the touch paper of an explosion of shock and counter hatred.
We had a Holocaust this is clearly support for the Nazis and further eradication, it must be crushed with extreme prejudice.
Sure, sure.
But if such people are honest it is not what it seems. It is political. "Anti-Semitism" is a political banner now flown by a particular political movement.
How many people alive today have experienced the Holocaust? There are about 1/4 million Holocaust survivors alive today. Everyone else has not experienced Holocaust. They feel like they have because of "political" affiliation.
It is like a person with Black skin having strong feelings about slavery. Really? When were you a slave?
A good example is a Polish friend of mine. He felt extraordinary personal feelings about the Holocaust because "his" people were targeted by the Nazis. After a DNA test he found he was not Polish but more Balkan and Spanish. Those feelings gradually faded.
The other thing to note is what does experiencing the Holocaust mean? It just means any Jew alive in Europe between 1930-45: the period of the concentration camps. It says nothing about your experience. The justification is that the Nazis planned to killed everyone so regardless where you were you were under the Holocaust.
But there are some problems with this view. Did the Nazis plan to kill all Jews? It seems in their struggle to do this they killed a lot of other people. We don't actually know how many. The figure of 6 Million was decided on almost immediately, without data, and the figure of 11 Million total was 2x6-1 because the Jews had to be the majority killed to maintain the Holocaust narrative.
The fact that even in this account almost as many "other" people were killed a Jews doesn't fit the idea the Nazis were exterminating Jews. They seems to be exterminating a lot of people. Gypsies lost 80% of their entire global population. That seems a bizarre and time wasting mistake if they were trying to obliterate Jews.
They is something tasteless about the Jewish narrative, it seems completely cold hearted and oblivious to the suffering of millions of "other" people. That is a clue to the problem with Jews.
In total I believe 9 million Germans were killed. The majority would have been ordinary people, completely unware of concentration camps or holocausts, some with patriotic fervour like anyone in a country being attacked, but very few really Nazi and ever fewer motivated to anything evil. And yet they all perished in conditions quite like the concentration camps. Eisenhower even restricted food to the ethnic Germans for a full year after the war to quash any possible rebellion an unsettling shadowing of the atrocities in concentration camps. Really we can add most of these German deaths to the Holocaust figure, of people brutally starved and murdered by the powers of the time. Would people accept 20 million as a figure for Holocaust including the Germans we starved? And if not why not?
The reason is politics. Whether your death in the war is remembered and sanctified or nothing is not to do with what you did, but purely who you are and in particular: what race you are. A Gypsy, German or Russian starved to death or gassed does not account as a victim of Holocaust and that is extremely troubling and ironic.
Was not the whole problem with Nazis, that is stratified people according to race and yet we are remembering the atrocity through a stratification of race.
And so protesting "Anti-Semitism" starts to look different. These protests are built upon a stratification of humanity by race. They are in fact Racist.
Well it should come as no surprise that the people protesting Racism are actually Racists themselves. This is how the world works. The world is ironic, the people protesting the greatest evils are motivated by evil.
What we should be doing is dropping the barriers all together and having compassion and respect for people regardless their external features. No one choses to be born Black or Jewish they just are, it is a simple fact of life, like whether they have brown, blue, grey or any other eye colour. Just arbitrary facts.
But what we do with these facts, like so many things, is we politicise them and turn them into weapons against other people.
We remember that the Nazis did this when they decided that Aryans were supreme. But we remember less that the Jews did this when they decided that only Jews were victims of Nazis atrocities.
So while Protesting Anti-Semitism has an element of truth, the real beast of Semitism is a monster, a head on the same leviathan as Nazism.
But does that justify saying "all Jews should be killed?" Isn't that just trolling and click bait?
Well there is another deeper problem?
What is a Jew?
Is anyone really a Jew?
We just said that the true ground is compassion for all people. This soars above all other concerns.
When people meet in a Synagogue of course the majority of people there are Jews. And when they meet and make plans obviously they will involved Jews.
But this is very different from Jews focusing on people's race and religion. I used to work with a Jew he introduced himself as "Daniel and unfortunately a Jew" and I thought "how odd I don't care." Since then I noticed he did care, and that presumably coloured his whole life. How can you have genuine compassion for people when your first thought is "are they a Jew?"
And here the nasty side of Jewish identity starts to come through. Jews are just humans. It's a sad humbling fact for many that really being Jewish makes no difference to anyone. The doctor doing the operation doesn't care one bit whether it is a Jewish heart of not they are bypassing. Completely irrelevant.
In the recent war between Israel and Gaza, Israel has made a big point out of having the bodies of the hostages returned. Obviously this is a hurdle the families of the victims need Hamas to jump. On one hand in a very ordinary way to pay last respects and take care of the proper burial of the bodies like anyone would want. And in another sense it is an act of closure for Hamas to end their captivity of these people alive or dead and undo as best they can what they did on 7th Oct. In both cases the fact that the bodes are Israeli makes no difference what so ever. The same would be true if they were Nigerian or Russian, Jewish of Christian. And yet while we acknowledge race or nationality has nothing to do with this the whole war was stoked by exactly that. Hamas was responding to Israel violently stopping freedom to worship in April (a violation of human rights by Israel) and just one of endless abuse by Israel on the Muslim and Arab population. In there lies the racism at the heart of this war between Jews and Arabs, Jews and Muslims. And yet when we look at the actual aftermath of the war it is just human beings of different countries between returned to families. What a load of nonsense.
So the statement "all Jews should be killed?" comes with the question what is a Jew? The Nazis had to decide what a Jew was before they eradicated them. You can't eradicate people if you can't identity them. And while everyone thinks it is easy to identify a "Jew" it is actually impossible. The word "Jew" is not an exact thing. It is very fashionable these days to look at edge cases and point out that everything is fluid. This draws attention to the fact the world is not exact, while our language tries to be. Jews are a linguistic thing, not a real thing. The real thing is human beings, and the real thing is compassion for people just because they are people.
"Compassion for a Jew" is a meaningless category mistake.
Seeing Anti-Semitism and opposing it is nonsense.
The path is to show that a Jew is just a human being: then and only then Anti-Semitism is gone.
So the Nazis did more for Jews than any person even Moses even did. The Nazis created a definition of Jews and they persecuted to engrain that definition in history and in the soil of cremation and burial grounds. These deaths have forever cemented the idea that Jews exist and so far from deleting Jews the Nazis made "The Jew." Today every radicalised Jew owes almost everything to the Nazis. And that should feel extraordinary uncomfortable because it exposes the lie behind Modern Jews, Zionism and those who oppose Anti-Semitism.
So saying "all Jews should be killed?" is a rallying call to investigate exactly what people are going on about and what really lies behind this web of nonsense.
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