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Medieval Judaism
The Jewish religion is the basis of both Christianity and Islam. As a result, for over a thousand years, Jews were tolerated within Muslim and Christian societies.
However, they were often persecuted, although not systematically. How did that happen? Generally, an overzealous King or Khalif would start a forced conversion campaign (either to Islam or Christianity) and kill a number of Jews. Then a Bishop or Mullah would intervene and say to the King or Khalif: "O, King, conversion can only be spontaneous. Faith cannot be forced" (Christianity) or "O Khalif, you have a duty to protect the Ahl-al-Kitab (people of the book), provided they pay the Jizya" (Islam)
The bottom line is that Jews were mostly tolerated but their life was always perilous. As a result, the Jews became opportunistic feeders. They became experts at identifying trends, in order to make as much money as possible, in the shortest possible time. This behavior was the most sensible given their situation. Being able to quickly move to another city, by having reserves of moveable wealth, was the key to survival. However, being an opportunistic feeder is not going to endear you to your neighbors, especially if you are from a visible minority. For example, in 17th century Poland (which was far bigger than it is now because it included Lithuania, Belarus and Western Ukraine), Jews became estate managers in large numbers on behalf of absentee Polish landlords. This did not make them popular with the peasants, of course, as it put them in the position of extracting as much revenue as possible from the said peasants on behalf of their masters. Were they cruel and greedy? Yes, but no more than estate mangers usually were. People just noticed it more because they were of a specific ethnicity, which was already carrying quite a lot of baggage.
Religious hypocrisy
Another aspect of the reputational problem Jews have is that their religion is indeed hypocritical to its core.
Properly speaking, Jews today are not "Jews". The word "Jew" is a contraction of "Judean", i.e. "someone who lives in, or comes from, Judea". As a result, "Judaism" means "the religion practiced in Judea". This religion existed for a number of centuries and it was very different from what we call "Judaism" today. In it, everything revolved around the Jerusalem Temple and its priests (the Levites). All the purity rules were to be observed ONLY BY the latter, not the general Judean population. For the ordinary Judean, there was just the Sabbath, the sacrificial Lamb at Passover and a few other festivals to observe. When the Temple was destroyed by the Romans in 70AD, Judaism proper ceased to exist. Judaism was tied to a single temple. Without it, the was NO WAY to practice it.
What happened afterwards is that a number of heterodox post-Jewish religious currents spread through the formerly Jewish population that had survived the war. The best known of these is Christianity. The other is Rabbinic Talmudic Pharisaism (RTP). This religious current is no more "Jewish" (i.e. Judean) than Christianity, although it pretends to be. In the absence of the Temple, the Rabbis had to invent a substitute and this is why they extended the priestly purity rules to the rank and file. Eventually, the world ended up with 3 post-Judean religious currents:
So, the RTP religion (what is called "Judaism" today) is no more "Jewish" than Islam or Christianity. It CANNOT be because it does not have the Jerusalem Temple anymore and that is what DEFINES Judaism.
Therefore, RTP, by claiming "Judaism" as its label, is fundamentally deceitful (while Islam and Christianity are honest). Finally, there are reasons why, in the Gospels, Jesus is made to say "Woe to you Pharisee hypocrites ..." in a number of verses (in RTP, P stands for "Pharisee"). I will not go into details but it is widely acknowledged that a formalistic, legalistic religion like RTP, leaves ample room for hypocrisy on a number of levels.
Messiah = Führer
Finally, it must be stressed that RTP (although not original Judaism) is the ancestor of Nazism, which it preceded by over 2000 years. In RTP, a central figure is the Messiah, which has become far more important than the original Jerusalem Temple in that religion. Properly, modern "Jews" are not supposed to return to Jerusalem and resume praying at the Temple before the Messiah comes. This is how important the messianic figure is in RTP and it is the reason why the most orthodox RTPers are anti-Zionists.
Without going into unnecessary details, here are the fundamental similarities between Nazism and RTP:
TL;DR
The Jews have inherited a bad reputation from the Middle Ages. Their religion (properly RTP - Rabbinic Talmudic Pharisaism) is fundamentally hypocritical and is the direct ideological ancestor to Nazism. They were persecuted by Christians and Muslims but not systematically so and this is why they survived.
As a result they are weak. You can base oportunism on hypocrisy, but not strength.
Jews are generally harmless. They can be annoying but they do not commit crimes more often than anybody else. However, they can sometimes behave as maggots on a corpse, like they are doing right now with the decaying carcass of Western Civilization.
The Jewish religion is the basis of both Christianity and Islam. As a result, for over a thousand years, Jews were tolerated within Muslim and Christian societies.
However, they were often persecuted, although not systematically. How did that happen? Generally, an overzealous King or Khalif would start a forced conversion campaign (either to Islam or Christianity) and kill a number of Jews. Then a Bishop or Mullah would intervene and say to the King or Khalif: "O, King, conversion can only be spontaneous. Faith cannot be forced" (Christianity) or "O Khalif, you have a duty to protect the Ahl-al-Kitab (people of the book), provided they pay the Jizya" (Islam)
The bottom line is that Jews were mostly tolerated but their life was always perilous. As a result, the Jews became opportunistic feeders. They became experts at identifying trends, in order to make as much money as possible, in the shortest possible time. This behavior was the most sensible given their situation. Being able to quickly move to another city, by having reserves of moveable wealth, was the key to survival. However, being an opportunistic feeder is not going to endear you to your neighbors, especially if you are from a visible minority. For example, in 17th century Poland (which was far bigger than it is now because it included Lithuania, Belarus and Western Ukraine), Jews became estate managers in large numbers on behalf of absentee Polish landlords. This did not make them popular with the peasants, of course, as it put them in the position of extracting as much revenue as possible from the said peasants on behalf of their masters. Were they cruel and greedy? Yes, but no more than estate mangers usually were. People just noticed it more because they were of a specific ethnicity, which was already carrying quite a lot of baggage.
Religious hypocrisy
Another aspect of the reputational problem Jews have is that their religion is indeed hypocritical to its core.
Properly speaking, Jews today are not "Jews". The word "Jew" is a contraction of "Judean", i.e. "someone who lives in, or comes from, Judea". As a result, "Judaism" means "the religion practiced in Judea". This religion existed for a number of centuries and it was very different from what we call "Judaism" today. In it, everything revolved around the Jerusalem Temple and its priests (the Levites). All the purity rules were to be observed ONLY BY the latter, not the general Judean population. For the ordinary Judean, there was just the Sabbath, the sacrificial Lamb at Passover and a few other festivals to observe. When the Temple was destroyed by the Romans in 70AD, Judaism proper ceased to exist. Judaism was tied to a single temple. Without it, the was NO WAY to practice it.
What happened afterwards is that a number of heterodox post-Jewish religious currents spread through the formerly Jewish population that had survived the war. The best known of these is Christianity. The other is Rabbinic Talmudic Pharisaism (RTP). This religious current is no more "Jewish" (i.e. Judean) than Christianity, although it pretends to be. In the absence of the Temple, the Rabbis had to invent a substitute and this is why they extended the priestly purity rules to the rank and file. Eventually, the world ended up with 3 post-Judean religious currents:
- Christianity (Scriptures: Old Testament + New Testament)
- RTP (Scriptures: Old Testament + Talmud)
- Islam (Scriptures: Old Testament + Quran/Hadith)
So, the RTP religion (what is called "Judaism" today) is no more "Jewish" than Islam or Christianity. It CANNOT be because it does not have the Jerusalem Temple anymore and that is what DEFINES Judaism.
Therefore, RTP, by claiming "Judaism" as its label, is fundamentally deceitful (while Islam and Christianity are honest). Finally, there are reasons why, in the Gospels, Jesus is made to say "Woe to you Pharisee hypocrites ..." in a number of verses (in RTP, P stands for "Pharisee"). I will not go into details but it is widely acknowledged that a formalistic, legalistic religion like RTP, leaves ample room for hypocrisy on a number of levels.
Messiah = Führer
Finally, it must be stressed that RTP (although not original Judaism) is the ancestor of Nazism, which it preceded by over 2000 years. In RTP, a central figure is the Messiah, which has become far more important than the original Jerusalem Temple in that religion. Properly, modern "Jews" are not supposed to return to Jerusalem and resume praying at the Temple before the Messiah comes. This is how important the messianic figure is in RTP and it is the reason why the most orthodox RTPers are anti-Zionists.
Without going into unnecessary details, here are the fundamental similarities between Nazism and RTP:
- Messiah = Fuhrer (= world conqueror who will turn Untermenschen/Goyim into slaves)
- Chosen People = Master Race
- Goyim = Untermenschen
- Messianic Age = 1000 year Reich
TL;DR
The Jews have inherited a bad reputation from the Middle Ages. Their religion (properly RTP - Rabbinic Talmudic Pharisaism) is fundamentally hypocritical and is the direct ideological ancestor to Nazism. They were persecuted by Christians and Muslims but not systematically so and this is why they survived.
As a result they are weak. You can base oportunism on hypocrisy, but not strength.
Jews are generally harmless. They can be annoying but they do not commit crimes more often than anybody else. However, they can sometimes behave as maggots on a corpse, like they are doing right now with the decaying carcass of Western Civilization.