The Roots of American Anti-Semitism
Studies of genocide show that those who kill their neighbors must dehumanize them before such attacks are widely accepted. In America, white Americans had been dehumanizing blacks and unleashing violence on black bodies for 300 years before the rise of the re-formed Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s, when the organized targeting of Jews by hate movements began. The small population of Jews who lived in America throughout the 17th, 18th, and most of the 19th centuries did so in an environment of relative tolerance, backed by the assurance of the letter written by President George Washington, a slave owner, to the Hebrew Congregations of Rhode Island, stating that the Government of the United States gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance.
Yet while American Jews avoided direct attack by the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s and 1930s, anti-Semitism itself was beginning to change as a small group of anti-Semitic radicals within the Klan moved from passivity to aggression, giving rise to a native-born American anti-Semitic movement whose radical ideology helped inspire the murder of 11 congregants at Pittsburghs Tree of Life synagogue. Auto tycoon Henry Ford played a key role in this transformation. Through his widely circulated Dearborn Independent, Ford popularized alarming slurs against the Jewish people, borrowing from the fraudulent and anti-Semitic Protocols of the Elders of Zion to accuse Jews of a secret, global financial conspiracy to undermine the United States and the western world.
At the same time, a man who helped publish Fords periodical, William J. Cameron, became interested in and promoted a school of pseudoscientific anthropological thought that repositioned Jews in the history of Judeo-Christianity. Cameron argued that the 10 missing groups from the lost tribes of the House of Israel (Israels Northern Kingdom), upon being overcome by the Assyrians, fled to the Caucasus, and populated that region. The remaining two tribes of Israel, the so-called House of Judah, eventually migrated to and settled in Europe. The latter were the true chosen people: Anglo-Europeans. European Jews, those who had been immigrating to America in droves in the three decades before, were in fact descendants of Mongol-Turkic Khazars.
This strange stew of white supremacy, anti-Jewish conspiracy baiting, and racialized anthropologywhich began overseas as British-Israelism, and morphed in the United States into Anglo-Israelismis central to the white nationalist ideology that continues to pursue and enact violence against Jewish targets. It is an ideology that, even if he may not realize it, helped fuel Robert Bowers rage against Jews.
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MaryMagdaline
(6,849 posts)I was not aware of the details of this putrid history
madaboutharry
(40,153 posts)It is excellent and very informative.
Lithos
(26,397 posts)Where anti-Semitism comes is from Europe where it has served as a scape goat to the rise of Neo-Nazi ultra-nationalism. The Proud Boys are modeled on British skin heads; Richard Spencer associated himself with extremists in Hungary until he was banned because of Schengen. George Soros is a dog whistle used to mean both Jews and Globalism. Globalism now being the secret cabal.
So when Soros is behind the Convoy or behind funding the Democrats, they are sounding the whistle of anti-Semitism.
https://www.haaretz.com/1.5354145 to see where this started.