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Nov 23, 2022Liked by John Hawkins

My experience with anti-semitism is almost exactly like yours, John. As an evangelical Christian, I know that Jesus was crucified as part of God's plan to bring salvation to us sinners, it was the ultimate sacrifice of the perfect lamb. Since Jesus was born Jewish and lived his entire life in Israel, it's no surprise that He would be killed by the powers that be, and that included of course the poly theistic Romans. I always thought blaming Jews for killing Christ is just advertising how little you know or understand about His death and resurrection. I've read books about the rise of Nazism in Germany, and again, the Jews were scapegoated but not by informed Christians. Between the post WWI sanctions, the hyper-inflation of the Weimar republic with its restrictions on possessing foreign currency, and the ban on charging interest (regarded as of usury), the Jews were the only people not starving to death, and they got singled out for that. Hitler just blamed the "cosmopolitan" Jews for everything and proceeded to kill and loot them. Thanks for writing this essay, just looking at the comments it's obvious there's a lot of interest, information and passion about this enduring topic. I would be remiss if I didn't mention that it will never be any other way, until His return, as the Jews are God's chosen people and Satan hates them for that.

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Many people need someone or group to scapegoat, hate and discriminate against. The only people I scapegoat, hate and discriminate against are career politicians, but they deserve it.😉

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Nov 23, 2022Liked by John Hawkins

In the Middle Ages, many countries in Europe had laws forbidding Jews from owning property. So if you can't be a farmer or own a factory, what can you do to survive? Basically that left banking and running some kind of shop (out of rented space). When the Jews did well at this, the society resented their success. The law was supposed to keep them down, but instead it had simply pressured them into avenues where they met even greater success than they likely would have as farmers. Kind of ironic.

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i don't think we have to go back to Christ John. I have lived in the jewish community for my entire life married one have a jewish daughter and my siblings are also married into tribe. I think there is a vast difference between observation of cultural characteristics however favorable or unfavorable and being a bigot. They may not be out firing bullets but they certainly bear the lion's share of responsibility for the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of many centuries Bolshevism. As stalin allegedly said to ben gurion's envoy during the UN plebiscite on being threatened to tell truman about soviet spies in US administration "all jews are bolsheviks". The entire Cheka was comprised of jews or a few who were married to one. Hitler won in '32 over a communist experimental gov. in bavaria accurately identified with the jewish population in region. No jewish support no communism and I do not know why no one is willing to ask them for some accounting. I believe the number is 250-400 million dead claimed in the black book of communism, Now we also had all our military nuclear tech given to the soviets by almost exclusively jewish scientists working on the manhattan project with the exception of Edward Teller. A jewish historian couple at harvard on the hudson wrote a book a few years back claiming Einstein was also complicit. It disappeared. Recently the arrest of a Jewish scientist at harvard or yale for espionage giving sensitive materials to the chinese. The Ukrainians are anti semitic largely due to their experiences with almost exclusively jewish bureaucratic operatives during the holodmor. They sided with Hitler over this and have asked Israel for an accounting to which they are rightly due. Additionally the outsized involvement in the corruption of Christian values in america which they openly brag about in their various publications the casino conditions in the financial markets and the improper use of their wealth to affect the body politic are the real reasons behind most people's wariness of them. Of course no one wants to talk about any of this. I also thoroughly resent the orchestrated censorship they exert in many venues one black employee, I believe it FTX, losing his job for saying he noticed there were no other employees who were not jewish. The still continuing suppression by the mostly jewish international consortium of publishing of Solzhenitsyn's "200 years together" is another highly questionable but rarely spoken of act. They have an almost stranglehold on academia, finance, entertainment, sports, science, medicine and publishing and none of this outsized influence is for the better in my view. I live in NYC and have been listening to jews say that people just resent their success. It is not but try getting them to speak honestly about the reasons behind the resentments.

They brag about this in their publications but act like any observation of these realities is a bullet train to auschwitz. What has been done to kanye west is an outrage and chappelle surely put his finger right on it by saying one must never noticed patterns.

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Its not that Jews are successful. Its that too many with Jewish names are doing things to destroy traditional morals: abortion, lgbt, gender confusion with kids, porn, you name it.

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The creation of the Jewish state, Israel, at the end of WW II pushed the Palestinians off their land. Many wound up as refugees in the Gaza Strip as I recall. That Palestinians are hostile to Israel to this day is not surprising. Israel was created as a Jewish homeland with the muscle of Great Britain, US, and allies. It is a benefit to the US to have a close ally in the middle east, but knowing what we do today, was is really a good idea?

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John, you might as well be a Jew, you fawn over them so much. The fact of the matter is, Jewish power is predominant through most, if not all, sectors of American society: Hollywood, finance and government (given how much it placates Israel), etc. Jews are the only group that has so much power, you can’t even affirm this without being censored. Their key to success is to create and perpetuate the ultimate victim narrative, thanks to the efforts by the Nazis to exterminate them at the end of World War 2. Then, they can pretend they really don’t have any power.

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It needs to be remembered that there is a difference between Jews and Israelis. Not supporting the modern Secular State of Israel is not antisemitic. As Gary DeMar pointed out, they may have a political right to exist, but they don't have a prophetic right to exist, any more than the USA does. When they do shady crap, they need to be called out for it.

As for Ethnic and Religious Jews in the United States, the only thing I dislike is their statistical penchant for supporting leftism, and policies that go ultimately against their own well being and freedom. I have met far more liberal Jews than conservative ones, much the same as Black folks in my area. When I try to convince anyone to get out from the Big Brother-Global Marxist camp, I am invariably called an anti semite or racist.

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