The Jewish Myth of Victimhood
behind a smokescreen of Jewish victimhood. (These conspirators
ensured there were enough victims to maintain this illusion.) This
is why we never stop hearing about the holocaust.
Even Putin is getting in on the holocaust act. Never mind
20 million Russia goyim and 40 million other goyim died in WW2
which was contrived by the Rothschilds. Andrew Joyce reveals
that Jews actually enjoyed a privileged role in society throughout
history.
"The "lachrymose history of the Jews" ... stands stubbornly opposed to overwhelming evidence that Jews have been a privileged, protected, and economically and politically powerful group throughout recorded history."
[Disclaimer- This post is not intended to minimize the genuine injustices to Jews but rather to expose how organized Jewry exploits these wrongs for political gain.]
Reflections on the History of the Jewish Hoax
by Andrew Joyce Ph.D.
(Excerpt by henrymakow.com)
A further use of victimhood narratives is that they nurture the building of resentments, which can in turn provide the impetus and energy for aggressive acts against competitors. Although many ethnic and national groups have flirted with victimhood narratives, Jews are distinctive in their particularly strong aversion to changing their own version of victimhood. They have thus repeatedly had recourse to victimhood narratives throughout their history, and have adopted a unique worldview in which the entire non-Jewish world, the goyim, is presented as hostile -- a case of 'Jews versus the World.'
Most remarkable of
all, Jews have been unique in their success in persuading competitors
and opposing groups to adopt the Jewish victimhood narrative, disarming and
disabling the more natural instinct of non-Jews to compete.
For these and lesser
reasons, Jewish culture has come to master the art of the victimhood narrative
and one often finds it remarked that the entire history of Jews is a history of
constant suffering -- the "lachrymose history of the Jews." Although
general acceptance of this over-arching historical narrative is a fairly recent
development -- not much older than half a century, its now mainstream position
stands stubbornly opposed to overwhelming evidence that Jews have been a
privileged, protected, and economically and politically powerful group
throughout recorded history.
Indeed, one struggles
to find a group of comparable size, at any place and in any point in time,
enjoying the same level of wealth and influence. The most obvious weakness of
contemporary academic and cultural treatments of Jewish matters is that they
fail to adopt even a remotely critical approach to Jewish narratives. The
alleged age-old victimhood of the Jews is simply taken at face value, digested,
and deeply internalized, particularly in the West where Whites of Anglo and
Germanic lineage have rarely, if ever, adopted a victimhood narrative of their
own.
Because the Jewish
victimhood narrative is, at heart, a compound of self-interested fabrications,
the details that punctuate this over-arching narrative are themselves a rich
constellation of exaggerations, bluffs, swindles, and hoaxes.
As explored in detail in a previous article, perhaps
the earliest example of the Judenscherz is
the Book of Exodus, an effort at refuting a Greek and Egyptian consensus on the
undesirable behaviors of the Jewish populations in their midst. In any event,
the Book of Exodus was, and remains, crucial in providing a foundation myth for
Jewish victimhood narratives and thus a foundation for the Jewish hoax.
The
putative 'liberation' of enslaved and persecuted Hebrews from Egypt is
commemorated by Judaism every year, in the form of the Pesach, or Passover festival. Historian Paul Johnson remarks
that Exodus "became an overwhelming memory" and "gradually
replaced the creation itself as the central, determining event in Jewish
history."[1] Exodus
has a power that exists independently from the trappings of religious myth,
acting through the centuries as a defining narrative of victimhood, group
vindication, and self-validation. Exodus is a foundation upon which Jewish
identity is built.
SELF SEGREGATION
Early narratives like Exodus and
the works of Josephus and Philo provided the template for later interpretations
and revisions of certain historical and political realities.
For example, references to these
earlier 'persecutions' provided a false justification for the self-segregating
practices of the Jews that were more palatable, especially to outsiders, than
frank admissions that Jews felt themselves superior to the nations they dwelt
among.
We find this particularly during
the Middle Ages in explanations for the ghetto experience. Indeed, one of the
most remarkable omissions from the majority of mainstream accounts of the
Medieval Jewish experience is the very privileged position of Jews during this
period. To be clear, Jews had no automatic right of settlement in Europe. This
was an age long before the concept of 'immigration' distorted the human
instinct, and the settlement of foreigners in one's midst was still perceived
as usurpation of more or less severity depending on the numbers involved.
Jews were able to form
settlements in Europe only because they were given assistance by the Christian
Church in the form of Papal decrees that approved their residence, as well as
granting them freedom from efforts at conversion and protection against
'maltreatment.' Without a Christian theology that taught that Jews possessed a
special role in the history of humankind, it is unlikely that Jews would have
been able to settle in Europe in the manner they eventually did. (Some of the
most influential treatises in this regard were formulated by Bernard of
Clairvaux and Thomas Aquinas.) We may therefore consider the Christian
settlement decrees to be the primary privilege that underlay the rise of the Jews
in Western Europe in particular.
The Jews of the Middle Ages
pleaded persecuted status while simultaneously enjoying unparalleled access to
wealth and power. This Judenscherz has
been passed down through the centuries and remains in robust condition even
today. Jews were entirely dominant during the period. The Jews of France and
Germany were allowed to transact business without restriction from the ninth
until the eleventh century -- three centuries of growth in financial influence
during which, in the euphemistic language of Jacob Katz, their
"involvement in the provision of credit was considerable."[7]
Jews were allowed complete judicial
control over their own communities. Further, as Katz states: "A feature of
the high political standing of the Jews was the permission to bear arms ...
This fact is perhaps to be viewed less as providing a means to self-protection
than as a sign of political status. As a result of the permission, the Jews
ranked with the knights and the feudatories who belonged to the upper strata of
medieval society."[8] Jews
stood over the masses, working solely for their exploitation. The Jews of the
Middle Ages engaged in no productive labor, almost all of them living
parasitically from moneylending. Katz writes that; "The picture of the Jew
waiting at home for the Gentile to come to borrow money or to pay a debt is a
realistic one."[9]
The reality of the tradition of
Jewish power and economic exploitation during this period has been smothered by
an extremely effective Judenscherz based,
like the accounts of Josephus and Philo, on fictionalized accounts of extreme
violence. Historian Jonathan Elukin writes that "violence is traditionally
perceived to be at the core of the Jewish experience in Medieval Europe."[10]
Like the earlier accounts, we see
multiple references to spontaneous "rising levels of anti-Jewish polemic,
accusations of atrocities, physical attacks, and finally expulsion."[11]
However, contrary to the Judenscherz, violence was in
fact extremely rare, and even its alleged high point, the Second Crusade,
"brought with it little actual violence against European Jewry."[12]
The much-lamented 'blood libel,'
supposedly the arch-provocation for much of this alleged violence, was in
reality so sparse and ineffectual against entrenched Jewish power that
"most Jews lived their entire lives without direct experience of those
accusations."[13]
Related - The Jewish Cosmology of Victimhood
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