{"id":51667,"date":"2017-04-25T17:05:21","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T15:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=51667"},"modified":"2017-04-21T07:48:39","modified_gmt":"2017-04-21T05:48:39","slug":"25-05-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=51667","title":{"rendered":"Watch: The mutation of anti-Semitism"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.israelnationalnews.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.reunion68.com\/Biuletyn\/img\/arutz.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"25%\" \/><\/a><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #000080;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000080; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.israelnationalnews.com\/News\/News.aspx\/228320\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Watch: The mutation of anti-Semitism<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Arutz Sheva Staff<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"background: #d0e6fa; width: 710px; height: 15px;\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Rabbi Jonathan Sacks explains how anti-Semitism has changed over time, and how its return presents a danger to the entire world.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"content\" class=\" content-alignment&lt;br \/&gt;&lt;br \/&gt; \">\n<div id=\"watch-description\" class=\"yt-uix-button-panel\">\n<div id=\"watch-description-text\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3UAcYn4uUbs\" width=\"680\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Within living memory of the Holocaust, after which the world said it would never happen again, antisemitism has returned.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">But what is antisemitism and why should its return be cause for grave concern, not only for Jews but for all of us?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Historically, antisemitism has been hard to define, because it expresses itself in such contradictory ways. Before the Holocaust, Jews were hated because they were poor and because they were rich; because they were communists and because they were capitalists; because they kept to themselves and because they infiltrated everywhere; because they clung to ancient religious beliefs and because they were rootless cosmopolitans who believed nothing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">So what is antisemitism? Let\u2019s be clear \u2013 not liking people because they\u2019re different isn\u2019t antisemitism. It\u2019s xenophobia. Criticizing Israel isn\u2019t antisemitism: it\u2019s part of the democratic process, and Israel is a democracy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Antisemitism is something much more dangerous \u2013 it means persecuting Jews and denying them the right to exist collectively as Jews with the same rights as everyone else.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">It\u2019s a prejudice that like a virus, has survived over time by mutating.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">So in the Middle Ages, Jews were persecuted because of their religion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">In the 19th and 20th centuries they were reviled because of their race.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Today, Jews are attacked because of the existence of their nation state, Israel. Denying Israel\u2019s right to exist is the new antisemitism.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">And just as antisemitism has mutated, so has its legitimization. Each time, as the persecution descended into barbarity, the persecutors reached for the highest form of justification available.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">In the Middle Ages, it was religion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">In post-Enlightenment Europe it was science: the so called scientific study of race.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Today it is human rights.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Whenever you hear human rights invoked to deny Israel\u2019s right to exist, you are hearing the new antisemitism.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">So, why has it returned? There are many reasons but one root cause is the cognitive failure called scapegoating.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">When bad things happen to a group, its members can ask one of two questions: \u201cWhat did we do wrong?\u201d or \u201cWho did this to us?\u201d The entire fate of the group will depend on which it chooses.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">If it asks, \u201cWhat did we do wrong?\u201d it has begun the process of healing the harm. If instead it asks, \u201cWho did this to us?\u201d it has defined itself as a victim. It will then seek a scapegoat to blame for all its problems.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Classically this has been the Jews, because for a thousand years they were the most conspicuous non-Christian minority in Europe and today because Israel is the most conspicuous non-Muslim country in the Middle East.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The argument is always the same. We are innocent; therefore they are guilty. Therefore if we are to be free, they \u2013 the Jews or the state of Israel \u2013 must be destroyed. That is how the great evils begin.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Why then should we all care about this? After all, if we\u2019re not Jewish, what has it got to do with us?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The answer is that anti-Semitism is about the inability of a group to make space for difference.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">And because we are all different, the hate that begins with Jews never ends with Jews.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">It wasn\u2019t Jews alone who suffered under Hitler. It wasn\u2019t Jews alone who suffered under Stalin. It isn\u2019t Jews alone who suffer under the radical Islamists and others who deny Israel\u2019s right to exist.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Antisemitism is the world\u2019s most reliable early warning sign of a major threat to freedom, humanity and the dignity of difference.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">It matters to all of us.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Which is why we must fight it together.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"background: #d0e6fa; width: 710px; height: 15px;\" \/>\n<div id=\"content\" class=\" content-alignment&lt;br \/&gt;&lt;br \/&gt; \">\n<div id=\"watch-description\" class=\"yt-uix-button-panel\">\n<div id=\"watch-description-text\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\"> twoje uwagi, linki, wlasne artykuly, lub wiadomosci przeslij do: <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #000080; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"mailto:webmaster@reunion68.com\">webmaster@reunion68.com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr style=\"width: 710px;\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch: The mutation of anti-Semitism Arutz Sheva Staff Rabbi Jonathan Sacks explains how anti-Semitism has changed over time, and how its return presents a danger to the entire world. &nbsp; Within living memory of the Holocaust, after which the world said it would never happen again, antisemitism has returned. 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