The Historic Alliance of Jewish and
Gentile Elites
Samuel
Oppenheimer, Court Jew and banker 1630-1703
The Real Cause of "Anti
Semitism"
By Henry Makow Ph.D.
My Polish
Jewish mother, born in 1919, remembered visiting her grandfather's
"estate" as a child and riding in a big horse drawn carriage.
This memory jarred with my
impression that Jews in Poland were persecuted and poor. Most, like my father's
family, were poor. But my mother's memory reveals that other Jews were part of
the ruling class.
Israel Shahak's book "Jewish
History, Jewish Religion; The Weight of 3000 Years" (1994) suggests
that the social pattern developed over centuries may continue to the present
day.
According to Shahak, elite Jews had
a symbiotic relationship with the governing class. The Jews would
"administer the oppression" of the masses. In return, the governing
class would force ordinary Jews to obey their "leaders." Sometimes a
pogrom would do the trick.
The "Jewish" position was
always strongest when the governing class was most oppressive, and when there
was least national feeling.
Today, specific Jews (in finance,
government, education and especially the media) play a prominent role in the
elite's preparation for "globalization," which is a modern form of
feudalism. Once again, "anti Semitism" is used to mobilize Jews (and
Christians) to support
this nefarious agenda.
THE BITTER TRUTH
History is propaganda about the past. Most
historians don't tell the truth because they would be fired. Israel
Shahak, who died in 2001, was not an historian. He was a professor of
organic chemistry at Hebrew University. He had a scientist's respect for
objective truth. He was also a concentration camp survivor, an Israeli army
veteran and a campaigner for Arab human rights. Shahak believes that Jews need to re-educate themselves about their history and religion. Jews are "a closed society" that uses "anti Semitism" to quash criticism, which is considered "hatred" or "self hatred." Shahak says Judaism is largely a primitive, materialistic, authoritarian credo. The Talmud is devoted to Jewish supremacy and contempt for Christianity and non-Jews in general. The Cabala embraces many gods including Satan. (Shahak, p. 33)
The following is a brief summary of Shahak's argument in the chapter, "The Weight of History."
1. In spite of persecution, Jews throughout history formed an integral part of the privileged classes. The poorest Jew was immeasurably better off than the serfs. Until roughly 1880, their most important social function "was to mediate the oppression of the peasants on behalf of the nobility and the Crown."
2. Classical Judaism (1000-1880 AD) developed hatred and contempt for agriculture as an occupation and for peasants as a class. "The supposed superiority of Jewish morality and intellect...is bound up with a lack of sensitivity for the suffering of that major part of humanity who were especially oppressed during the last 1000 years, the peasants." (53)
3. While Gentiles in general were reviled, Jewish laws made an exception for the elite. Jewish physicians, tax collectors and bailiffs could be relied upon by a king, nobleman, pope or bishop in a way that a Christian might not. The Jewish community enjoyed autonomous status and Jewish rabbis and rich were part of the governing class. Together they oppressed the masses, Jew and non-Jewish. (53)
4. The position of rich Jews is "particularly favourable under strong regimes, which have retained a feudal character" and are disassociated from the people they rule. "But in those countries where...the nobility enters into partnership with the king (and with at least part of the bourgeoisie) to rule the state, which assumes a national character," the position of the Jewish elite deteriorates.
5. However the position of the Jewish masses moved in tandem with the peasants not their leaders. The stronger the Jewish elite, the more tyrannical its grip over the Jewish people. For example, at the rabbis' request, the state would flog or imprison a Jewish vendor for opening his stall on a minor holiday.
In Shahak's words, "Israel and Zionism are a throw-back to the role of classical Judaism, writ large on a global scale..."
"The state of Israel now fulfills towards the oppressed peasants of many countries, not only in the Middle East, but far beyond it, a role not unlike the Jews of pre-1795 Poland: that of a bailiff to the imperial oppressor. " He refers to Israel's role as a linchpin in the imperial system. It helps keep neighboring Arab regimes in power (11) and arms Third World dictators. He wonders why religious Jews are major participants in the arms trade and rabbis are silent.
Shahak believes the Jewish people need to overcome the "tyranny" of their religion. Only an "unrelenting critique" of the past will achieve a "genuine revolution." (74)
CONCLUSION
A Jewish reader wrote to me: "It is the Jewish mission to be a light or spiritual guide to the nations...We [uphold] an ethical and moral God, without which we would descend into barbarism in an instant. And it is THIS which has caused Christianity to murder Jews throughout the centuries."
I beg to differ. Far from being a "light unto humanity" many Jews (as well as so-called Christians) "mediate the oppression" for the governing class. This and the fact that Judaism defined by Cabala is Satanism, are the real causes of anti Semitism.
The New World Order is a revival of feudalism. The rich rule as kings and humanity is en-serfed. It is happening before our eyes. Religion, art and education are debased. Civil rights are taken away. Men are emasculated and families destroyed. Jobs and technology are shipped abroad.
The Jewish moral mission? How about "Thou Shall Not Steal" and "Thou Shall Not Kill?" Zionists have stolen the homes and land where Arabs lived for more than 50 generations.
We cannot change the truth just because we don't like it. The real cause of anti Semitism is found in the Jewish religion and in the role of the Jewish elite, their lackeys and dupes.
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