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For the past 1000 years, Jews have fled antisemitic Europe for the relative safety of Muslim countries. The British turning Palestine over to Europe's Jewish re

For the past 1000 years, Jews have fled antisemitic Europe for the relative safety of Muslim countries. The British turning Palestine over to Europe's Jewish refugees and its subsequent transformation into an ethnostate eventually changed this, but ideological antisemitism in the Muslim world is almost entirely imported from Europe and translated European/American writings. Europe may not have a deeper shared value than its antisemitism, extended from late Rome. Even with the Reformation, one of the main things Protestants were protesting (other than indulgences) was the Catholic church allowing Jews who refused to convert to remain alive. Whereas Islamic countries just imposed a tax on Jews and Christians alike. Even during the run-up to WWII, America and Britain minimized and ridiculed the complaints of European Jews, and refused people running for their lives entry into their countries. It's psychologically obvious why Europeans and Americans collectively want to locate the source of antisemitism in the Middle East, rather than the continent Jews were forced to flee from.

octopoc 3y ago
The Romans weren't particularly antisemitic, unless you define antisemitic as "opposing Jewish interests." There was a lot of bad blood between them and the Jews in that sense. In one of the Jewish-Roman wars, Kitos War[1], here's what happened: > 32 Meanwhile the Jews in the region of Cyrene had put one Andreas at their head and were destroying both the Romans and the Greeks. They would cook their flesh, make belts for themselves of their entrails, anoint themselves with their blood, and wear their skins for clothing. Many they sawed in two, from the head downwards. Others they would give to wild beasts and force still others to fight as gladiators. In all, consequently, two hundred and twenty thousand perished. In Egypt, also, they performed many similar deeds, and in Cyprus under the leadership of Artemio. There, likewise, two hundred and forty thousand perished. For this reason no Jew may set foot in that land, but even if one of them is driven upon the island by force of the wind, he is put to death. Various persons took part in subduing these Jews, one being Lusius, who was sent by Trajan. [2] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitos_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitos_War [2] https://www.gutenberg.org/files/10890/10890-h/10890-h.htm https://www.gutenberg.org/files/10890/10890-h/10890-h.htm It's not intellectually honest to mention Roman "antisemitism" and not mention that the Jews were very deliberately genocidal. They were absolutely not just innocent victims.

octopoc 3y ago

The Romans weren't particularly antisemitic, unless you define antisemitic as "opposing Jewish interests." There was a lot of bad blood between them and the Jews in that sense. In one of the Jewish-Roman wars, Kitos War[1], here's what happened: > 32 Meanwhile the Jews in the region of Cyrene had put one Andreas at their head and were destroying both the Romans and the Greeks. They would cook their flesh, make belts for themselves of their entrails, anoint themselves with their blood, and wear their skins for clothing. Many they sawed in two, from the head downwards. Others they would give to wild beasts and force still others to fight as gladiators. In all, consequently, two hundred and twenty thousand perished. In Egypt, also, they performed many similar deeds, and in Cyprus under the leadership of Artemio. There, likewise, two hundred and forty thousand perished. For this reason no Jew may set foot in that land, but even if one of them is driven upon the island by force of the wind, he is put to death. Various persons took part in subduing these Jews, one being Lusius, who was sent by Trajan. [2] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitos_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitos_War [2] https://www.gutenberg.org/files/10890/10890-h/10890-h.htm https://www.gutenberg.org/files/10890/10890-h/10890-h.htm It's not intellectually honest to mention Roman "antisemitism" and not mention that the Jews were very deliberately genocidal. They were absolutely not just innocent victims.