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Behind the Aegis

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Tue Nov 6, 2018, 01:56 PM Nov 2018

(Jewish Group) Anti-Semitism Is On The Rise

(THIS IS THE JEWISH GROUP! RESPECT!!)

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However, as the tragedy in Pittsburgh makes clear, anti-Semitism has found roots in the United States. Even Alexander Hamilton when under duress, could call a political enemy “Shylock the Jew.”

Anti-Semitism in America has been strongest at times of national stress. Before and during the Civil War there was an explosion of anti-Semitism as Jews were depicted as Wall Street cheats and worse. During the Depression Father Coughlin broadcast hatred of Jews to millions on radio while the nation’s greatest industrialist, Henry Ford, widely distributed the fraudulent Protocols of the Elders of Zion that accused rabbis of plotting to take over the world. Recently, hatred and persecution of the Jews have become more common in our nation. The number of anti-Semitic incidents increased by 57 percent in 2017 compared to 2016.

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This is a short Op-Ed to the The Transylvania Times, but the paragraphs I highlighted are quite telling.
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I grew up in an anti-Semitic home. byronius Nov 2018 #1

byronius

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1. I grew up in an anti-Semitic home.
Tue Nov 6, 2018, 02:02 PM
Nov 2018

My mother once refused to let a Jewish friend of mine use the bathroom.

My father quietly believed Jews secretly controlled the world. He didn't realize when he took me to Dachau that it would galvanize me in the opposite direction.

It's a bizarre and frankly psychopathic belief based in million-year-old tribal primitivism, and a mark of human failure in anyone that carries it.

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