Why do Some People Hate Jews?
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
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Thank you so much for this wonderful video, dear Professor. I have forwarded it to my adult friends who need to see it just as much as children and young people. Your comment about post modernism really struck a chord with me, as it has totally invaded academia and the media here in Australia. I am not Jewish, but I have always felt such empathy for Israel and the Jewish people and I would like you to know that there are so many others all over the world who feel the same way - it’s just that the biased media does not allow our voices to be heard. I also honestly believe that behind all the fancy sounding slogans about “human rights for Palestine” etc etc there is simply a basic hatred of the Jewish people for all the reasons mentioned in your video and it is being disguised under platitudes and false information. I send nothing but love and support to Israel and the Jewish people 💙🇮🇱🇦🇺💙
Thank you for the kind words, I appreciate that you shared the video.
Here in Canada we are seeing the obvious support for Palestinians amongst younger people. It doesn’t mean that we are on the side of Hamas.
As most of us saw what happened that day with the slaughter and kidnapping of Jewish citizens, I feel and think that decades of the basic imprisonment towards Palestine people
by Israel has left a sour taste in many peoples mouth . Hamas went too far with there recent retaliation some might say, but what most educated people seem to understand is the pent up
anger amongst the Palestinian community and decades of instability within their residence.
Hamas are both smart and cowards for shielding themselves behind civilian structures. After 9/11 we wanted to blow something up. All I see on the news is the exact same thing.
Thank you for your carefully considered and compassionate thoughts on this topic, Dr. Abramson.
Publicizing this historical background to anti-Semitism is so necessary right now. The similarity between anti-Semitism during the 14th-century plague and the increase in anti-Semitic incidents during COVID-19 reminds us that the forms and forces of anti-Semitism are not new, just disturbingly adaptable.
I agree.
Huh? Anti asian racism perhaps
@@HenryAbramsonPhD 100% agreed the anti-semetism & genocide against semetic christian palestinians is demonic by those NAZIonists.
Why they are hated for practicing the perfected Judaic religion ( Catholiscism ) given to them by God ( as well as they Holy Land given to them by God ) is demonic.
May the Holy Triune Catholic God help those lied to & blinded by Satan....who don't have the altar, temple ( church ) , tabernacle, priesthood, Holy Sacrifice , Divine presance that the true is ra el has ( the supernatural body of Christ)!
J'ai prier pour vous monsieur.
Mere du Dieu la nouvelle l'arc du covenante aidez cette homme .
@@HenryAbramsonPhD Why not enlighten the Quran and Mohammad Sunnah manifested Islamic hate, enmity and violence?
109 countries. 1,030 different locations. Zero chance they communicated and conspired together throughout it. Tell the truth
It hurts that a video like this even needs to be made.
True
You are such a powerful speaker and fantastic teacher. Thank you creating this video covering a topic few would touch. Thanks for sharing of yourself and your experiences.
Thanks for the kind words, glad you found it helpful.
Sir, as a Christian, Im so grateful for your adding clarity to these issues.
Thank you
You mistake one-sided religious splaining for clarity.
@@marwar819 in the next video, He can use your comment as a perfect example of modern day, antisemitism.
I'm so sorry to hear about your student. I really hope she is okay.
Thank you so much for making this video. I have directly and indirectly experienced antisemitism throughout my life but it's worse it when it comes from "friends" and colleagues. They are ordinarily anti-racist but have a blind spot when it comes to antisemitism.
She's just a bit shaken up, otherwise ok, thanks for asking.
Have you done anything to end Israel’s international and humanitarian laws offences in Israel? That’s would help
@@jacobjorgenson9285thank you for providing such a clear example of anti-Jewish racism.
Another great video and talk, Dr Abramson, thank you once again. Truly we are living in troubling times and I feel tremendously sorry for my Jewish brothers and sisters around the world who are being harassed, abused, threatened, assaulted and attacked. For those fortunate enough to be living in the USA, I'd recommend keeping a gun (with the proper training of course), as well as providing self defense training for women and children. Further, I'd strongly recommend that vulnerable individuals do not go out alone, particularly if they are visibly Jewish. This is especially important for elders, women, children and the disabled. It's a sad state of affairs that things have come to this, even in Western countries. As a non-Jew, I pray that you, your family, students, colleagues and loved ones are all healthy, happy and safe.
PS I had hoped that this talk would cover antisemitism around the world, and not just in the West. For instance, I'm curious to know to what extent it existed in the Islamic world, China and India. However I realise that this is perhaps too much to ask for one video so perhaps you might consider it as a topic for a future video.
Stay safe Dr Abramson 🙏🏽
I do not know first-hand, but I have read that anti-Semitism only began in the Islamic world starting in the 1800s. In those books/sources it said that it can be traced to Christian missionaries and colonists bringing over ideas of the blood libel. So the periodization he mentioned (the last two of the four periods before his thesis of a fifth "postmodern" antisemitism) also applies to other places like the Middle East or China, but the "logic" of the hate makes even less sense in those cultures. For whatever it's worth.
Today's anti-Semitism is more a cultural phenomena resulting mostly from propaganda campaigns or group thinking. The first ghetto was created in mid 1500 in Vienna, and unlike today, back then the Jewish people were easily distinguishable from the gentiles, looking 'Jewish' was part of their system of beliefs so their communities tended to group together, isolated from other communities and as much as possible, avoiding communications with everyone else. If you add to that the pretension of being 'the chosen ones', the dubious financial practices and the victim complex, all going back to a distant past, that obviously created much resentment from other members of the societies shared between these hardly communicating and sympathizing communities. Anti-Semitism was more justifiable back then, when very few even dared venture out of the safety of their closed up community. When someone proclaims high and loud their difference and superiority from everyone else, the resulting antagonism and occasional violence towards them if intolerable, is at least understandable.
@@joshuajasper5984that is a beautiful myth. I think in general we all want to believe that there were primordial eras of peace and harmony because it implies the possibility of “return.” The version you present also has a clear “bad guy”/source of the “taint” that set everything on the wrong path. It is tempting to tell ourselves that kind of story,
The reality was much more complex. The leader/ruler determined the fate of Jews. Some were tolerant, requiring not much more than compliance with the dhimmi regulations (like paying the jizya, the special tax, not building synagogues, public displays of subservience). However, if one looks at, for example, Maimonides’s writing, one can read concrete examples of the dangers and difficulties in places that were harsh but still tolerated some Jewish life.
@@saraleigh5336 I don't necessarily disagree. I didn't say that everything was peace and harmony, but just that systemic anti-Semitism such as the blood libel didn't exist outside Europe in the same way. It was generally more about discrimination but not persecution of all the minorities equally (the dhimmi and jizya tax).
But as I said, I am not an expert in this subject and my response is largely based on a book that came recommended by a professor to me in college. The basic thesis of "The Jews of Islam" by Bernard Lewis is that there were no systemic theological or cultural biases against Jews in most periods of Islamic history (very unlike medieval Christianity), with some limited exceptions such as Yemen and certain periods of Muslim Spain. That changed only with the rise of European influence in the 1800s. I do know that other historians disagree with this basic thesis and argue that a uniquely Islamic anti-Semitism did exist at the time.
@@joshuajasper5984 the idea of convivencia was very popular and charming, but has been discredited. It depended where in the Islamic world, which regime, and which ruler in that regime. If one begins to study the development of Islam, one begins to learn about systemic antisemitism. You are right, it does present differently. I think especially looking at the Mideast now, the idea of a time of convivencia is particularly attractive.
Thank you so much for your eloquent and clear lecture and heartfelt final words. Reflection and looking back is never a weakness - it's how we learn, hopefully, so that the bad of history does not repeat. One thing that I am learning from recent times is that extremism in any group hinders and destroys peace. So many innocent lives are affected, both Israelis and Palestinians. I am so glad this non-Jew has run into your wonderful videos. I look forward to watching more.
Thank you, sir, for your rational and scholarly view of this painful issue. You displayed restraint and objectivity, yet I found myself shaking as I watched. I live in the north woods of the Midwest. I may be one of the only Jews in this sparsely populated area. I recently had a doctor, born in Saudi Arabia ask me why “everyone hates the Jews.” I calmly gave her a little history lesson but afterwards found myself feeling uncomfortable and uncertain about how to react. Was this a stab at my Jewishness or is it possible it was asked in innocence? She didn’t ask “why do some people hate the Jews.” It was “everyone.”
She is wrong, it's not everyone who hates the Jews. Satan hates the Jews coz our Saviour JESUS CHRIST was born in the Jewish Community, and God used them to give us His Holy Word.
Real born again Christians love you and we are praying for Israel and the Middle East
I'm not a jew, but it might have just been a poor/innocent choice of words asking a genuine question.
If you think about geographic regions, ethnicities, religions ect - "everyone" kind of does hate ya'll, just not on an individual person to person basis... Hopefully that changes, go Israel!
I got to this informative video, by searching "for why does everyone hate the jews" btw. It could actually be a genuine question...
@@mbburry4759 People, just imagine a doctor says to an African American "why does everyone hate black people?" would you still blow that off as an acceptable question? People are so quick to have a stupid response to bigotry.
Thank you for your time explaining all this. I’m learning buckets full of Jewish history from you.
Glad to be of service
Thank you dr. Abramson. Especially for your last words. Like the Talmud says; words that emanate from the heart, enter the heart. Shabbat shalom
Dr. Abramson, I think this is your most important lecture to date and one that will, hopefully, cause us to pause for thought in a span of history that takes me back to the dark days of June 1967, when I came of age as a secular Zionist, a state of being that has never waivered, though this does not preclude my criticism of the government, nor my wish for there to be peace among all the peoples of the Holy Land and beyond.
Blessings to you and your family. Thank you for your continued scholarship and efforts. שבוע טוב
And the same to you and yours! Thank you.
Your most important piece to date. One way that hatred is nourished over the years and applies to many different groups, is using stereotypes as a misguided attempt at humor.
So much of what you say Rabbi makes sense. Since October 7 I've been trying to understand this conflict. Listening to Jewish/Semitic history on UA-cam has been enlightening. What I am beginning to understand now is only the very tip of the iceberg. Thank you so much Rabbi and God bless
I can’t understand why there’s so much hatred for the Jewish people. We’re all human being! I have nothing but admired the Israelites ever since. As a catholic I respect their culture and beliefs. They’re hard working people and able to improve their lives from nothing in a short period of time.
Precisely my question since I was fifteen.
No more hate than any other collective group, really ......yes, Really😳
......They are being hated on TODAY, for the 10s of 1000s of Men, Women, and Children, being murdered in plain sight, in Gaza, by the Israeli Govt
Stop the killing, Stops the hate👀
@@HenryAbramsonPhDit’s fear and ignorance and the lack of individual accountability for our own lives that seems so prevalent today.
We killed Jesus? We are a powerful minority.
HUMANITY comes first you should LOVE & RESPECT every RELIGION, PEOPLE who don't do this are a Serious Threat to the Society
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Non Jewish atheist here... appreciate all your work educating the public on Jewish history and contemporary issues facing Jewish people. An invaluable contribution to the debate.
Mr Abramson, thank you very much: clear to the point. Whoever you teach, is blessed. Stay safe.
Thanks, you too.
Thank you for sharing this, Dr. Abramson. Your videos are always helpful. We're doing our best to move our Christian traditions past the infection of supersessionism, starting at home.
To fully understand the current period, I'm looking for any material I can find more recent than Benny Morris to balance out the Pappe narrative of cynical colonial predators.
Will continue watching almost everything you post!
I (and many other) sincerely appreciate your moving in the direction that permits mutual respect for each other’s beliefs. You may be familiar with Rabbi Jonathan Sacks z”l, the late chief Rabbi of England. He wrote a book called _The Dignity of Difference_, which centers on the idea that different communities have different paths.
Dr Abramson - I am a 76 year old Protestant who is reading the entire Bible for the first time and marvel at the Jewish history of God’s Chosen. Thank you for all your beautifully expressed presentations needed at such a time as this. Shalom.
Thank you for the kind words. Shalom indeed.
Thank you for your well presented study of this painful subject. I'm praying regularly for safety of Jewish people all over the world, as well as the tearing down of senseless anti-semitism.
Me too
@@HenryAbramsonPhD I noticed a change in attitude in adolescence that suddenly came. Growing up with playmates of mixed backgrounds from Mexican- White American- Black American. We saw ourselves as American kids, then adolescence a complete change. Very difficult to understand. Also RCC vs Protestants. My mother was WW2 bride so our culture was mixed, although we children just saw ourselves- our friends as normal Americans. Im so grateful for your lecturers. Well balanced and informative. Helps me appreciate the cultures and my own life.
Adolescence is a game changer for all cultures.
May you receive many blessings for sharing about hard times. I know it can't be easy. Shalom Peace 🙏
Amen
Many thanks for this fascinating talk. As a secular atheist, ex-Catholic, I do not concur with any religion of course, but have nothing but respect for the Jewish tradition - especially their tradition of study and thinking generally. Who else can compare? Their refusal to bow-down to the various local enforced religions they have endured is wonderful and joyous - if only more people had done this in the past. It seems to me that certain people do have a need to hate somebody, anybody, and spit out their hate. Like a snake venting their poison. I happen to have a friend who seems to loathe numerous political or public figures for no apparent reason. Even quite harmless actors or comedians. Constantly shouting about them, on-line of course. (Oddly, he’s actually very pro-Israel at the moment. Go figure :-) These goys -what can you do?
This behavior seems to come from the need to boost oneself up by putting others down. That is the apparent reason I attribute this to.
My best friend here in Tzfat has much in common with you. Also brought up in rural Canada. Her and her mother did tshuva and came to Israel and the father and brother stayed in Canada. She does huge amounts of chessed.
Nice to heae
I am very appreciative of your videos. Your dispassionate tone is essential and yet I imagine is not always easy to keep… Always looking for current sources like Abba Eben was. Thank you so much.
Thank you so much for this, very much a necessary exploration of what is, again, sadly, a thriving phenomenon.
I don’t know ( but can easily imagine ) what happened to my father to make him, now, retreat in horror and vehement rejection of his Jewish descent. My own experiences range from sitting, tearily, at the dinner table ( or ‘tea time’, as we call it in Australia ) of a very dear friend, as his mother smiled with a frankly very nasty cynicism, commenting on the “ nice little Jewish boy sitting there, with his Victorian manners “. What I’d done wrong, I hadn’t a clue. These sorts of things I ended up simply not telling my mother, who was prone to getting extremely upset at accounts of any schoolyard, street, or other locales in which anti-Semitism reared up. Here in Japan, ironically, the upset & insult springs up from a default response to one’s Jewishness ( sometimes from complete strangers, often drunk ) by showering you with ‘compliments’ of ‘your people’s wealth and intelligence’. Any protests at the inaccuracy and stereotyping associated with these sorts of descriptions is simply ignored, or met with incredulity. Tragically, quite open hostility, always present, emanating from South Asians of a Salafi, or at least simply pious Muslim identity, has now escalated, and I can easily imagine what happened to that poor young woman. She has all of my sympathies.
Thank you sir for a very thoughtful and enlightening analysis.
Thankyou for the video. My young daughters and myself have experienced antisemitic verbal hate. We live in a rural area and the nearest Jewish Community is hours away. I had to move my children to a different school in a different area. We had witnesses but the police urged me to drop the case. I suddenly felt like a total outcast. I am a secular Jew and live in a country I wasn't born in. As you point out xenophobia has a lot to do with it. I have not moved away as I love my home and I don't care that most of the people ignore me. My daughters have found different friends. What bothers me the most that the horrific verbal hate was done by Christians who pray in church every Sunday. Just so two faced. The blood libel is still alive and kicking.
Majority of came arose from Christian theology.
Mein Kampf quotes Martin Luther and New testament for example.
שלום
There are bad apples in every group. Unfortunately you ran into some ignorant people there. The worst thing you can do is generalize this behavior to all Christians. Don't allow hatred to take root as it will steal your peace. Shalom.
I’m a first time listener of the Dr. Abrams on historical lectures, and am very glad I found his channel on internet expanses. I am a very curious person and like to understand everything from true facts. Learning about peoples sins of discrimination, abuse, perceived superiority, etc. over the ages of history of our existence I feel very sad and disappointed in humanity, even though I remember & recognize humanity’s great achievements. Right now, I am not overly confident that the world-wide situation will soon improve. Sadly it seems, everything is pointing out in the opposite direction of people’s selfishness, aggression, hate and wars. Sometimes I think that we don’t deserve God’s blessings b/c we failed Him, and the afterlife feels better and safer than today’s reality 😢.
However, the glimmer of hope still glows deep in my soul that wisdom & good will would prevail! So, I feel and want to conclude with the words: from the river to the sea I pray Israel is always free!!! 🇮🇱🕊️🕊️🕊️
Hi,
I was thinking a lot about the roots of Jew heatred in Europe in modern era and one reason for it that many people forget about, is the IQ disparity and arrogance of being smarter/better/right associated with it. One of the main reasons for hate in general is the feeling of being inferior to the other group or person (Palestinians now or European peasentry in early modern era) which is being intensified by the arrogance of the person/group that is factually smarter. Jews in Europe were considered smarter than the general population (hence the idea of Jews secretly ruling the world) so I believe with emancipation of peasentry and rise of comunnism and socialism the hate for the smarter one really took off especially that it had a face, a Jewish face.
When "Fiddler on the Roof" was released, the nuns at my RCC school took us on a field trip to see it in a theater.
Thank you for making this video. It was very insightful.
Glad it was helpful
Jews do not ingratiate themselves to non-Jews. Before I knew what anti-semitism was I had a paper route. To a tee NONE of the Jewish families tipped me well or at all. I trudged through snow with my dog. One guy Gersh - a dentist with the best house on the street NEVER tipped me once in 7 years. Never would shake my hand and thank me at the end of the year as other non Jews would. As years went on and I became a working class guy who lifted/fixed things, every time I was disrespected or my work overlooked it was by white collar Jewish people who tend to have jobs and culture where nobody they ever knew lifted anything in their lives. That's partly where it comes from. They do themselves no favors.
I am commissioning a star of David from my friend who's Israeli American. At first I was wary of wearing one, but I'll be damned if I'm not proud of my Jewishness. Thank you for talking about this important topic.
Wear it in good health!
When I visited Israel in 2018, I bought a pair of Star of David earings and a pendant, and I am wearing them every day with absolute pride even though I am not Jewish. When I see the hatred and hysteria that often emanates from the other side of the debate, I am comforted by the fact that I am part of the loving, reasoned, truth respecting community of the other side of the debate
@@guillermofarinas1246pride in oneself is different than pride in ones jewishness. Being proud to be a jew, especially in difficult times, is not a sin
Thank you Dr. Abramson.
You are most welcome. I hope you found the video informative.
Thank you for the education Shalom!😊
Two things; First, i really thought Borat was a fictional character and, secondly, shouting out the awesome death metal kings "Deicide" was a nice touch and you've earned my eternal respect and subscription as a result...
Well pretty much because what happens in Palestine today. Period.
Let there be light, Professor Abramson.
Shalom, from Lisbon.
Shalom indeed.
As a Christian, it is horrifying to know what has been done to Jews in the name of Christ. Bad theology doesn’t fully explain the atrocities related to the false charges blood libel and host desecration. I know there is are multitudes of attempts by Christians of different persuasions to think through what the Biblical relationship is between the Church and Israel. Most of them mix the two together or see the church as successionist or completionist, or today espouse replacement theology. Your statement on the Mother-Daughter relationship is one way of describing this. These ideas play into the mindset that the Jews somehow lost their special relationship to GOD and therefore have no claim to the unconditional promises he made to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. This has given many Christians a freedom to side with people who expressly desire to do the Jews serious harm. I sometimes wonder if they are aware that there would be no Church without the Jews, or if they ever really read Romans.
It's interesting because I am a Jew who accepts Christ however I see this chapter as a continuation of Judaism, not as a separate religion. The split has given rise to a sort of tribalism, an us against them mentality that has been the source of much hurt over the years.
I am sorry for your student and hope that she is recovering well. Thank you for your calm and collected reaction to this tsunami of unspeakable horror. May your efforts help to heal the world, thank you Sir.
Thank you, Dr. Abramson, for this insightful analysis.
You are very welcome
Excellent explanation thankyou. I'm a rather lapsed catholic educated in the UK 60s and 70s..l did not experience any dislike of the Jewish faith. My mum would talk to us about the holocaust and such awful behaviours of the nazi regime as she was 18yrs old when WW2 started. May it all cease and we all continue to live together in peace x
Once hate (fear) takes root - it becomes reality. The important question always is; what germinates the seed - as it must surely be something collective, traumatic and generational
Thank you very much for your teaching...I became a Christian many years ago and had a Supernatural experience with God's Holy Spirit...I have always respected Jewish people as they are our God's chosen people whom He worked through in the Old Testament..(and where the Ten Commandments came from)...and where it was prophesied many times that a Messiah would come to save His People..I respect your belief that you are still awaiting the Messiah...I had the honour of working with a Jewish man whom I supported through difficult times for him...Bless you ....Have you ever come across a book entitled 'Betrayed' by the Author named Stan Telchin..a Jewish family man of standing in his community...an extremely good read from Jewish perspective
Thank you for all you do. Your work is so important.
Thank you for the kind words, and for supporting the research!
Why are you commercialing social message by blocking views of comments unless $ paid!
Reinforces view that bad behaviour of a Jew can unleash punishment on them by divine tools i.e. gentiles.
Why are you commercialing social message by blocking views of comments unless $ paid!
Reinforces the view of a few grand rabbis of old that bad behaviour of a Jew against a fellow Jew can unleash punishment on them by divine tools i.e. gentiles.
I know how painful it must have been to say this at this moment. Thank you. Am yisrael chai.
Amen
Blood libel is still alive and well in Finland. I was pushing my grandson in a carriage on the market square in Turku at Passover time, when a young man suddenly attacked us shouting out blood libel accusations. At least 200 people stood by and watched while I tried to protect the baby. A Kurdish woman from one corner and an Indian man from the opposite corner rushed to pull him off us, or I suppose the Finns would have allowed him to kill us. The police simply turned their backs. Oh, and by the way, I am not even Jewish.
Wow. Sounds like a random psychopath.
That's shocking!! Why did he decide you are Jewish??
@@gfriedman99 Yes, probably a random person with mental issues. But it does encapsulate several of the trends that Henry Abramson so articulately describes.
@@TM-100 As he was a stranger, it must have been something in my appearance, perhaps the beard.
Wrote a blog post about this topic, & it being wrapped up in contradictions was the big thing I noted when writing about it.
Thank you. Wonderful presentation. As relative now as 500 years ago.
Most of the reasons for Jewish hate and resentment, that I’ve seen across many platforms online, fall into these categories:
•Jewish supremacy
•Cultural segregation by choice
•Individual greed and group greed
•Exploitation of non Jewish people, throughout the world
This is not my view, just an observation of the views of those who have expressed negativity towards the community. I’ve also come an across a lot of Jewish people saying that the negativity has a lot to do with what has happened in centuries past. However, it seems to have a lot more to do with what is happening with the Jewish generation alive today, rather than what has happened hundreds of years ago
Offensive and actually rather stupid.
A jew knows better, confirmed.
Anyone can tell a one-sided story!!!!
Even though we can't be certain of who's the real devil in the historical ages, but from what I've learnt from this video, I must say, I'm not surprised at all considering my knowledge of Human Psychology both as individuals and as Society, Racial population or Religious Population.
Humans are the basic units of Human Civilization and that is the only truth I believe in. Evil and Good are everywhere, especially under the game of manipulation.
I am not a Jewish but have many Jewish friends and never understood why antisemitism exists. I am very interested in the history of Spanish Jews. I saw and read few times references to Jews-pirates. Is it true? Jews -pirates is very interesting idea and very unlikely in my understanding. Thank you.
I whole heartedly agree - I have absolutely no idea why anyone hates Jews. Antisemitism is a cesspool of irrational hate. It is senseless. The Jewish people have contributed so very much to the world - especially the Western world --
It’s beyond sad
It’s a tragedy of epic proportions
Thank you for your videos
Thanks for your knowledge and advice. I'm having major problems discussing this with my kids now, since they have been brainwashed by social media to believe Israel is a colonial power that is responsible for a genocide. I feel like I should've warned them about these lies beforehand.
I enjoyed that. I’m sorry for what you went through as a child.
Me too. Thanks for the kind words.
Love and blessings to you always Sir!
You too
Perhaps the haters see something negative in things like Deuteronomy 15:6 and ברוך אתה ה' א-להינו מלך העולם, שלא עשאני גוי
I think all people are equal and any supremacist ideology is ridiculous.
Dislike the text if you like, but hatred of a people is extreme.
@@HenryAbramsonPhD Yes, the text is extremely deplorable. Footstools and winepresses, plowmen and vinedressers, the descendants of Esau being destroyed, there is so much to dislike even without considering the commentaries. And yes, anyone who hates is ridiculous because all that is happening is the person (or group) they hate is perceived to be a victim by everyone else. Hate is a counterproductive waste of time for everyone concerned.
@@HenryAbramsonPhDDo you believe that Israel currently or historically does not harbor hate for others and that policies/laws could more reflect a peaceful religion in a more effective way in the future? Thanks Shannon
It’s amazing that Jews never want to take them blame for anything.
Sigh.
@@HenryAbramsonPhDsigh Khazar convert even google definition tells you
When you look up Khazar definition
Why would you accept blame for anything that you didn't do?
What happened to your student happened to me in England as a boy from the ages of 8 to 10, suddenly from nowhere I was punched or beaten for the only reason of being a "wog". Insults and hate gaze for being a wog were also a daily routine in my life in England until we moved back to Venezuela in October 1971. So I know what it feels to be hated, insulted, kicked, beaten, and spit for no reason but for being a foreigner and it not only happened in the streets, my neighborhood or in the cities and towns but in school by lots of teachers and staff. And I have to emphasize it occurred daily.
Feel really bad on behalf of your student, I hope she is okey :). i think people have tendencies toward this kind of bigotry all over the world, everywhere, but when things flare up they get emotional about it in a different way, and that can become dangerous of course. I think it is very important that we do what we can to combat that in all its forms. there are ignorant people everywhere, just think of how many people believe covid was a hoax, or that the moon landings never happened, bizarre ideas about Jews are no different, and they are mostly harmless when people are not put in this tension, like we see today, but when everything gets heated I think the less informed and emotionally mature people especially turn very easily to violence or to visceral forms of hate, rather than just engaging in silly beliefs. of course having strange racist ideas about Jews or any other group isn't good in any way, but when everything is going just fine i think mostly quite sick people turn to violence, with exceptions like neo-nazis and so on, but personally i think they are basically mentally ill in a different way than we usually diagnose. it could be something as simple as some ignorant person who have been exposed to ideas like that there are a lot of rich influential Jews, or whatever else, and now that Israel is bombing gaza, and Jews are in the news a lot they suddenly feel called to action in a different way, which is tragic. I don't think there is an easy fix, but I am still confident that in at least most western countries and hopeful most countries in general we can completely or mostly negate it, by clamping down in it, and educating people, there isn't the same necessity of unfamiliarity any more, any educated person can easily find out that Jews are just people, no different from anyone else, and if social media was only delivering good and accurate information i don't think that would be too difficult, the major problem is that people are sometimes very sketchy when it comes to how they process information, and are not emotionally mature as a general rule, i doubt that we will see wide spread hate, but fringes might get a lot more dangerous, and that in itself is not acceptable, we have to do what we can. Really like your content, its easy to digest, informative, and it seem like you really enjoy making it, which is a great resource in it self, makes it easy to consume, and inviting :) i hope more people find it, not only children, but i think this sort of thing is great for people who really don't know a lot about Jewish history.
20:30 I learned the other day that Ashkenazi Jews have a gene that when only one is present makes them resistant to TB - in the same way that sickle cell anemia when only one gene is present makes the carriers immune to malaria. I learned about it watching an old class at Stanford by Prof. Robert Sapolsky.
Children don't come into this world with hatred it's something they learn from whatever culture there raised in
Dr A is inspiring as usually in his calm approach to a charged topic. I do feel however that this detached approach has missed the bulk of the phenomenon. As a Jew growing up in a Soviet Ukraine, I’ve felt this hatred unconnected to any of the religious sentiments. The bias was there at every level of the irreligious society. I feel that Dr A has left out a very important component of jealousy towards a super successful middleman minority. See Thomas Sowell on this articulation. Also seem to me to be lacking in integrity are contributory causes of Jewish belief in being Chosen people and our social separation. The charges of being both communists and capitalists also happen to be true. The solution to Antisemitism (if it’s at all possible) is not to deny that many of those sentiments are rooted in factors that are more disproportionately prevalent among Jews.
I wish that Dr A should’ve also given a better exposure to connection of Nazism and Islamism. Lastly, no connection was highlighted between class struggle morphing into a new iteration of Jew hatred. Specifically of totalitarian USSR and current anti-Israel movements in the liberal West.
I'm still standing with Israel and the Jewish brothers and sisters. What happened on October 7th last year made me mad. Hamas terrorists must be brought to justice for their crimes against Israel and the hostages.
Some Christians believe in “replacement theology” but some definitely do not! Replacement theology is actually NOT biblical; it’s not found in the New Testament. I appreciate the Jews, they brought Christianity to the non Jews, and hence, brought hope into our previously pagan cultures and a relationship with one God that we never had before! We love your people and pray for you and Israel. 💕
Thank you for the information you presented. Love God and love one another are the two great commandments. Any other actions are wrong.
As a born Christian practicing Noahide, I believe there is a level of guilt by many today. When Jewish people carry themselves with a loyalty to G-d, follow the Mitvahs and represent more of what Jesus himself espousedt than what todays Christians do, it is more self guilt than hate. I wouldn't say there is envy but a grudging respect to the dedication of others. There is also a heavy dose of ignorance, this is true of all religions really. Ignorance breeds irrational contempt.
Thank you for your manner of presentation and useful information 42
You are welcome
Love Jews and Israel! God's people God's land!
Excellent Synopsis...
Your concise descriptions ,historical observations and explanations really are a healing salve . TODAH You are light to the Holy Instruction.
Glad you found it useful
Thank for the good video, sorry to know about your student, it is scary to think what will happen, next, it is new thinking with this new post modernism?
Maybe
I learned when I was eighteen that I was yiddish I had no idea what that was. My grandmother told me when I questioned my relatives. I Invoked
A lot of anger I still to this day. Don't know truly.
My family Is hiding something but all the old ones are dead now.
breathtaking clarity by the most engaging UA-cam academic too true for any soulfull gentile not to feel guilty we evangelicals always felt antisemitism was demonic it has always been that simple to understand since i have some russian roots i am so ashamed to learn of that russian monk and of course of THE OTHER THING THAT is now going on
Shalom! I love your channel. I don't know if this is the correct video to post this message, but it's your most recent as of today. Forgive me if you have already done a video on this. I wonder if you could make video about Jewish attempts to resettle in Israel (Palestine) prior to the 20th Century. What happened to Jews who tried to move back after Diaspora? Was there ever an attempt made by the local Muslim population to acknowledge a sort of "Right of Return"? I believe you touched briefly on some of this during the Crusades. All the best from Vancouver BC!
15:30 there's a saying in Portuguese: the worst blind is the one who doesn't want to see. I never imagined it (probably) originated from a religious idea. There are others that come from the Book of Proverbs (a golden ring isn't fit for a pig's nose - from (paraphrased) a woman without common sense is like a golden ring on a pig's nose) and from the Ecclesiastes (what is croocked from birth will remain croocked for life - from: what is croocked can't be made straight / what is missing cannot be counted. IMHO, the saying is actually an incorrect interpretation of the original text).
You looked great, still handsome now 😆. Thanks for the education. Love ❤️
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Read the culture of critique or the international Jew to understand why
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@@HenryAbramsonPhD Your purpose in life is to combat antisemitism, not tell the truth.
@@jameseldridge3445 True brother. The truth will prevail.
It should also not be overlooked in our current place in time of the immense propaganda efforts.from enemies of the U.S and all of her allies. We know what Hamas is doing to spread falsehoods, we can also safely asume that their biggest backers are applying the same efforts.
Most people who hate Jews and other groups of people most likely have no idea why they hate. I believe the best way for antisemitism to end is for the antisemites to just talk to Jewish individuals, respectfully of course. I’m not familiar with Judaism but as a Catholic Christian, I believe all sins can be forgiven once one becomes repentant and changes for the better. We are all called to love our neighbor the same way we love God.
My heart breaks for you and all Israelis who have experienced and are now experiencing a new kind of HATRED. Respect your subtlety in making the presentation informative and not political!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Very interesting, informative and well put together.
I was thinking about the two rules of antisemitism and it struck me how accurate you were in your description and how I have seen examples of this in Sweden where I live.
In short, the "reasoning" among right wing extremists goes as follow: Jews are to be blamed for the many immigrants from muslim countries coming here.
When confronted with the fact that we have seen an increase in antisemitism mainly coming from that particular group of immigrants (sad but true, that is the case) The answer is something like: "That's all a part of their (Jewish) plan". What that plan would be is never mentioned.
Right wing extremists can also find common ground with Hamas supporters in their antisemitism allthough right wingers hate Islam and muslims as well.
I always wondered how that circular reasoning worked. You explained it perfectly. Thank you. Still confused about the world today but a little bit wiser.🙏
I don't know if you've seen a book called For Your Own Good, by Alice Miller, but the first chapter is about Hitler and Stalin.
Maybe antisemitism explains why Jews haven't disappeared as a people like so many other ancient civilizations. It has prevented us from completely assimilating and helped us define ourselves as a people, even though we have trouble defining ourselves.
We can't dismiss the role of antisemitism in creating the State of Israel. It is highly ironic that Herzl, a secular Jew, who would've have preferred to assimilate, championed the idea that a return to the homeland was the only solution to antisemitism. We can't deny either, the role of the Holocaust, the epitome of antisemitism, in making this wild idea a reality. Furthermore, the recent wave of antisemitism will surely usher in another major ingathering of the exiles.
So, all this to say, that far from antisemitism being dismissed as some inexplicable phenomenon, I theorize that it is all part of the divine plan to usher in the Messianic Era. I would be interested in your thoughts on this theory, thanks.
Theres a common saying in yiddish/hebrew "if the jews dont make kiddush- the ceremony at the shabbos meal over wine but literally means keeping ourselves holy-, the gentiles will come and make havdala -the ceremony that ends shabbos, separating shabbos from the weekday. So tongue in cheek it means a separation just using the term of the ceremony." Basically, if we dont keep the torah and do G-ds will, he'll arrange for a reminder in the form of antisemitism
Antisemitism adapts. Wow, that gave me a moment of pause…. Thanks for sharing
I think a good question is how does God feel about the Jews who say they are God's chosen people, are disobedient to God and don't live holy and are disobedient to God's Covenant but feel chosen and entitled.
You should do a video on the history of Islamic antisemitism.
Yes, that would be refreshing turn!
I personally don’t believe Islamic antisemitism could’ve developed organically in the Arabian peninsula. It must’ve had some influence from the Byzantines or maybe the ghassanids, as they were orthodox Christian monophysites. It’s just too wild to believe such hatred just pops up in an area where Jews had lived peacefully for so long, especially in Yemen and Medina
Hello! I am Greek, l live in Greece. I was born In the 70's. I am not an historical I am a civil engineering.
Since I was a child 12 14, I heard many people around me that was hating Jews. And my heart couldn't justified and understan that hate. . As I grew up i red some history
I don't have any relatives Jews. But I always like and admire your amazing nation.
In my mind and through a logic cosept I ve always understand the truth of the facts! I really think that you have definitely the right to build your country after all that happened.
I stand with you in this defense fight. I wish you big victory and I pray for your country! I'm not a jew, but I see the truth and the right.
I believe that your fight against terror, it's victory, helps all the western nations and Europe.
I am also believe that Palestinians always in history want to solve their problems with terrorism . This is the problem.
They have used to it.
And that worries me and disappoint me!
But anyway I believe you the israelis will be victorious for the kind of all people in the world! ❤️
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I've been an activist in anti-fascist and anti-racist circles for many years.
I've watched many of your videos.
It's important to broaden and deepen our understanding of religions and cultures we are not familiar with in order to address racism.
I find a good way to address anti-semitism is to have knowledge of Judaism.
For example the whole anti-Jewish myth around the 'Babylonian Talmud" when you ask people what they think the Talmud is, and explain the relation to the Tanakh and Torah.
This is very good information you present here.
A lot of this I did already know, but you are an excellent historian and professor. You make a better presentation than I could.
I also learned a couple new things as well!
I do wish that you had not strayed into the contemporary conflict.
There is a lot of misinformation on both sides. Made all the more muddy by AI tools which are easily deployed to manufacture propaganda.
I've had my own hands full recently addressing anti-semitic remarks and content from people who purport to be pro Palestinian.
Their remarks make it all too easy for journalists to dismiss a peace movement as an anti-Jewish movement. Despite many of us being Jewish.
We have a hard enough time trying to make a distinction that criticism of Israel is not inherently anti-Jewish.
No country is above criticism!
Sadly the Pro Palestine movement is bound to attract some anti-semites who try to use it as a platform to regurgitate the same old conspiracy theories.
*Those are a LOT of Antisemites!*
I am grateful for your educational videos.
Thank you!
post modern thinking has its merits, it is indeed difficult to determine what is true, honest, or dispassionate. that is always true, but the ideas themselves are difficult and sometimes they are bad ideas, sometimes they are insightful ideas, that have boiled down versions of them that contain wild traps, like concluding that there is no point in trying to understand something in detail, because it is ultimately subjective in some way, which is half true, you cant just find the truth under the carpet just because you look there, but lazy perspectives are not made better by saying that figuring out the truth is hard. a lot of traps like this gets adopted in behavior and intellectual attitudes, without the people adopting them really having a good idea of what the authors even mean. Foucault for example in broad terms thinks most opinion and analysis derives from power dynamics and cant be understood outside them, and maybe there is something to that in various ways, like a scientist that will not go around conducting a pr campaign to discredit his work, because he made a mistake, probably because he wouldn't like to hurt his credibility, instead maybe choosing to retract a paper and not talk about it too much. there are all sorts of dynamics like that in which a point can have merit, but if you were to adopt an absolutist version of that like a version that says that all thinking is useless, because it will only produce propaganda, that is an absolution of thought as having any value, which defeats the purpose of the original thought entirely, there is simply no point to reading such a perspective if you ultimately just label everything as propaganda, the extreme versions of the ideas are simply absurd. i personally think a lot of post modernist thought goes off the rails by focusing on specific dynamics in society and thought and elevating certain modes of analysis in my mind too heavily, but ideas like that are meant to be read softly and considered carefully, not to be put in an extreme form and used as a guide to thinking and acting.
Very thoughtful video, Dr Abramson. I need to ask though. Did you do a video essay about President Zelensky's visit to the Canadian parliament and his double ovation of a "former" SS? It very much looks like in his view, the enemy of his enemy (The Russian Army) is his friend.
Love your channel.
Here is a suggestion for another video, which will engender some nice symmetry to this one.
"Why do evangelical Christians love Jews and support Israel?"
You might start with the book: "Match Made in Heaven" by Zev Chaivets.
Also, check out Chosen People ministries.
Thanks. Good idea.
Thats it perhaps? "You are not in our society. You could disturb us. You could be a betrayer." A reflection of the "old ape" standing up become walking animals on two legs, to protect the clan against enemies. With tools build by the craft of our hands and brain we could do ä lot good and bad. How tough it was for our ancesters in stone age to live in a wild world not able to buy in supermarcet. But in deep we are the old ape scared of everything and of any strangers. - The same in my youth many talked bad behind me. We we're strangers in our own homeland after WW 2 in expulsion.
How much time have you got? It's late so I wouldn't even scratch the surface. I'll get up early tomorrow cause the list is crazy long.
I tried to be brief.
Thank you. I've never been a religious person but I feel I need to educate myself on why the world hates so mcuh on different religions. I just wish everyone could live a happy life...we only have one.