Imagine there’s a street of houses with all different races, nationalities and religions living in them.
In one house live a Jewish family. A group of people want to burn this house down. Not any other house in the street, just this house.....
They know that if they burn the house down, then the inhabitants will be inside. But they still claim that they don’t hate Jews, just the house they live in....
It’s a ridiculous argument of course, so they cant get the support to set fire to the house. Instead they try to ostracise the inhabitants. Anyone caught talking to them is attacked. The people doing this claim it is for the good of humanity....
This is of course the story of anti-Zionism.
The same Jewish family had been attacked before many times in previous generations. The details of the attackers had different beliefs, but they also claimed it was for the good of humanity....
Whatever the biggest issue of the day is, some people will blame Jews as the number one offenders. Anti-Zionism is the manifestation of this.
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Post enlightenment, intellectuals used to debate the status of Jews. This was known as ‘the Jewish question’. For Jews, despite all their efforts, enlightenment ended in the gas chambers…
The new ‘Jewish question’ to fill the minds of intellectuals is called antizionism. It is a rallying call, and one of the most dominant ‘isms’ of our time…
Antisemitism is a fantasy version of Jews by racists. Likewise antizionism is a fantasy version of Jewish life, politics and history, using the same stereotypes and accusations
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You’ll never see this nursery rhyme the same again....
1/5 It’s about impoverished Jews collecting Oranges and Lemons shipped by Livorno Jews to St Clement’s (Eastcheap - by the Thames wharves)...
2/5 They were fronted the money near St Martins (Outwich) and if they couldn’t sell their produce (to pay back what they owed) they endedup in Newgate, where they would hear the chimes of St Sepulchre opposite the Old Bailey...
3/5 Jews lived in tenements in Shoreditch and Stepney - places like this were packed with thousands of Jewish immigrants , mainly Ashkenazi but also Sephardi...