I’m a graduate of the University of Evansville, and the temple in the article is the one I mentioned attending. My senior year I also lived in a house that was just a few blocks from an Islamic studies center (and also the house used for exterior shots on Roseanne, but that’s another story).
I assume it’s because of the college that Evansville was, and I hope still is, a wonderfully diverse place, but I also can’t say this surprises me.
A friend of mine through my girlfriend is a professor there, and we go down every now and again. It still seems pretty diverse.
A Jewish cemetery in Rochester, New York is the latest to report topped headstones, after Jewish cemeteries in St. Louis and Philadelphia reported hundreds of similar incidents. At least five headstones were toppled at Vaad Hakolel Cemetery, also called Stone Road Cemetery. Rochester has two Jewish cemeteries.
Michael Phillips, director of the Britton Road Association, which manages Rochester’s Jewish cemeteries, was hesitant to call the incident anti-Semitic. “I don’t think there’s any proof of that,” he told the Democrat and Chronicle. None of the headstones were defaced, as many had been at the cemeteries in St. Louis and Philadelphia, he said.
This is in my city; I could drive there in less than 15 minutes.
Well, this lovely charmer showed up a little while ago:
Full text reads as follows:
Why are Jews the only group of people in need of Anti Defamation Leagues in the first place? Ill tell you why its to deflect the truth from being told. Jews have been kicked out of over 200 European countries (sometimes twice) since the 1500s (from memory) Always for the same thing,usury, stripping the host country of their finances,causing wars and strife and infiltrating the political system. The last European country to have them kicked out was Russia when Putin came to power. He got rid of all the Jewish Oligachs. He knew from history that when the Jews had 80% membership of the parliment they started the Bolshevick revolution resulting in the deaths of 60 Million Russian people. Now the U.S.A. has 60% Dual Israeli citizens in Congress,in the CIA,NSA,Etc…They own 96% of the western mainstream Media and 100% of the Federal Reserve Treasury since about 1914.FFS! Ive got nothing against the ordinary Jewish person,its the Zionists and other gangs of Jewish Oligachs that want to control everything,start wars for profit,Etc… that I have issue with.
Now, it’s currently past 1 AM where I am, so I’m not going to dissect this now, but I ask that it be left unflagged for later dissection, because this is a prime example of antisemitic “I don’t hate Jews! I just think that they control the world and are out to get me!” bullshit, and it’ll be valuable as an educational resource.
But I will point out the irony that the poster demonstrates exactly why the ADL is necessary.
To the contrary!
Whatever. You’ll be banned for TOS violation soon enough. I’m not going to engage with a bigot that does not see that his own hatred necesstates the very organization he’s libelous against.
Jinx!
While I’m expecting @Dredrotten 's antisemitic posts to be eaten shortly, this is a good chance to discuss one other point (mentioned in passing up-thread)–that of the Jewish/Zionist Occupational Government conspiracy theorists (generally acronymed as ZOG), of which this poster is a prime example.
Without quoting the post directly (because I don’t want this one going away as by-catch), the attitude of “The Jews Control The Banks/Media/Government/Congress” is pretty classic antisemitism, and has been used to incite the sorts of attacks mentioned up-thread for centuries.
One specific point mentioned was that “the Jews have been kicked out of over 200 European countries (sometimes twice) since the 1500s, Always for the same thing, ursury, stripping the host country of their finances, causing wars and strife and infiltrating the political system.” This wasn’t true when the Protocols Of The Elders Of Zion was published, and it is still not true.
Now, first off, this is literally Nazi propaganda (as in “can be found in the pages of Mein Kampf and Der Sturmer”), with the various accusations of nefarious “infiltrations” and the incitement of wars, and the control of the political system (as they lead, of course, to the natural conclusion of ‘destroy the Jews in our own “defense”’).
Secondly, it’s ignorant on multiple levels (there haven’t been 200 distinct European countries in the last 500 years! And Jewish expulsions from European countries date back over a thousand years. England in the 1200s, Spain in 1492, etc), especially when it comes to the aspect of urusry. The reason that Jews were forced to engage in loans and banking during the medieval period was that the Church banned Christians to loan each other money, and Jews were banned from nearly all trades; this forced us to be moneylenders in order to survive–and, when the peasants got upset with the behavior of the princes, the Jews could be scapegoated and expelled (and, amazingly, the debts that the princes owed them were nullified).
As a final note, a friend of mine that runs a Judaism blog has a little corollary to Godwin’s Law that he calls “Chaim’s Law” If you try to redefine “anti-semitism” as a core part of your argument about why you aren’t anti-semitic, you lose the argument.
I have to admit that I only learned this earlier this week…
Well, that’s what this thread is here for–education on these things.
But antisemites like to ascribe “Jews as moneylenders” as being some nefarious scheme plotted across centuries with the goal of world domination… instead of the actions of a tiny ethnic group trying to survive one day at a time in the one way left open to us by those in power.
Well, that accounts for, what, less than ten percent of the bomb threats?
Apparently people are using this story as justification for Trump’s suggestion of false flag threats earlier this week.
I’d say that if you’re choosing to create bomb threats specifically against Jews, whatever you think your internal motivation is (and this guy clearly had many issues), your actions are anti-semitic, and you are an anti-semite. You’re still happy enough to terrorize Jews to achieve your ends.
I’d hope that people don’t think that I was posting that story to diminish the seriousness of those threats (and I hope Max didn’t either), I just thought it was a relevant news story - and like you say, there are many other ongoing threats that dwarf this guy.
Remember, if you copy the text but then do NOT click on the pop-up “reply” button, you can drop it into a subsequent post in that thread or another one and it won’t get eaten as by-catch.
I posted it because he is responsible for at least some of the bomb threats, so that is relevant to the thread. It does not provide an answer for most of the calls, for the cemetery desecrations, or for other antisemitic acts.
Conversation circa 1400s (disclaimer: my grasp of history is more fallible than a Vise-Grip missing a spring)
Christian #1 [holding bag of gold coins]: Usury is a cardinal sin and those practicing it beckon the eternal flames of hell. [turns to Jew] Hey, can you secure this for me?
Jew: Uh, okay.
Christian #2: Hey, can I borrow some of that? I’ll pay you back, plus interest.
Jew: Dude.
Roughly 800, but otherwise, yes.
Using that bit of made up fairy story of hate as a reference should equate to an automatic loss of argument.
I assure you he is not.
Then again George Soros paid me to say that.
Yes, I’m paid in days lived and not murdered by bigots who believe as you do.
