The internet is awash with claims that Jews are like Nazis. This comes through insinuation or is explicitly stated. Some say Israelis are behaving like the Nazis today. Others, (invariably the same people), say Jews collaborated with Hitler in the past.
Historically, when a society has any problems at all, economic, social, whatever, it concocts a lie it points at the Jews, deflects all blame, rage and disappointment onto the Jews AND AWAY FROM THE PEOPLE IN POWER who might actually be responsible or at least capable of fixing the problem. This has literally happened pretty much every 50 years for the past 2500 years. Over the past 50 years, our jobs were first shipped overseas and then what was left was automated away, while mass extinction and climate disruption were given full rein. I had not expected that the rise in social media and the loss of privacy would enable foreign governments to brainwash our populace into fighting itself and thereby splinter and destroy what are essentially empires. It didn't occur to me, witnessing all these solvable problems remain unsolved and get worse and worse, that someday the Jews would be blamed for the impending catastrophes, but I think that's where it's coming from. When you need an internal enemy, the Jews always fit the bill.
When I heard some of the imams speak about how once they've run out of Jews to kill, they'll move onto the Christians, I realized, oh wow, America is weakened, the EU is weakened, China is weakened, Russia is weakened, all these powers have their problems, and Iran sees its opportunity to continue the spread of radical Islam at the point of the sword that once took over Africa, the Middle East and half of Asia. And we paid for it, oil money, we financed them every time we got in the car and drove somewhere, every time we bought something that had to be shipped in from somewhere, created somewhere, and from materials that either were petroleum in origin or needed petroleum in their manufacture. And for the Islamists to take over, you need to be distracted, you need to be too busy to notice, so hey, instead of "Look over there, a pony!" it's "Look over there, a Jew! And they need to be killed!"
For the Islamists who really do want to kill all the Jews to point the finger at Jews and say "You Nazi, you're guilty of genocide" when all they've done is defended themselves, that's pure gaslighting, pure DARVO, but antisemitism was always just below the surface, and now it's a joy, a relief, you don't have to pretend to tolerate *those people*, those *horrible* people who run everything and own everything and steal everything from you and by the way did you know they kill babies too.
While the world's really serious problems go from solvable to unsolvable, while we destroy the world, we waste our energy on infighting, on looking for someone to blame, someone to kill, rather than addressing our problems. We, the Chosen Scapegoats, the traditional scapegoats, are always there for the public service of letting people off the hook of actually solving problems.
Historically, when a society has any problems at all, economic, social, whatever, it concocts a lie it points at the Jews, deflects all blame, rage and disappointment onto the Jews AND AWAY FROM THE PEOPLE IN POWER who might actually be responsible or at least capable of fixing the problem. This has literally happened pretty much every 50 years for the past 2500 years. Over the past 50 years, our jobs were first shipped overseas and then what was left was automated away, while mass extinction and climate disruption were given full rein. I had not expected that the rise in social media and the loss of privacy would enable foreign governments to brainwash our populace into fighting itself and thereby splinter and destroy what are essentially empires. It didn't occur to me, witnessing all these solvable problems remain unsolved and get worse and worse, that someday the Jews would be blamed for the impending catastrophes, but I think that's where it's coming from. When you need an internal enemy, the Jews always fit the bill.
When I heard some of the imams speak about how once they've run out of Jews to kill, they'll move onto the Christians, I realized, oh wow, America is weakened, the EU is weakened, China is weakened, Russia is weakened, all these powers have their problems, and Iran sees its opportunity to continue the spread of radical Islam at the point of the sword that once took over Africa, the Middle East and half of Asia. And we paid for it, oil money, we financed them every time we got in the car and drove somewhere, every time we bought something that had to be shipped in from somewhere, created somewhere, and from materials that either were petroleum in origin or needed petroleum in their manufacture. And for the Islamists to take over, you need to be distracted, you need to be too busy to notice, so hey, instead of "Look over there, a pony!" it's "Look over there, a Jew! And they need to be killed!"
For the Islamists who really do want to kill all the Jews to point the finger at Jews and say "You Nazi, you're guilty of genocide" when all they've done is defended themselves, that's pure gaslighting, pure DARVO, but antisemitism was always just below the surface, and now it's a joy, a relief, you don't have to pretend to tolerate *those people*, those *horrible* people who run everything and own everything and steal everything from you and by the way did you know they kill babies too.
While the world's really serious problems go from solvable to unsolvable, while we destroy the world, we waste our energy on infighting, on looking for someone to blame, someone to kill, rather than addressing our problems. We, the Chosen Scapegoats, the traditional scapegoats, are always there for the public service of letting people off the hook of actually solving problems.