(Jewish Group) For 2,000 years we've linked Jews to money. It's why antisemitism is so ingrained

[Behind the Aegis]

(THIS IS THE JEWISH GROUP! RESPECT!!)

I’m reluctant to add to the workload of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, which this week announced the first step towards a statutory inquiry into Labour and antisemitism. If it goes ahead, it will be only the second time the commission has seen fit to investigate a British political party for racism – the first related to the BNP – and, given the number of complaints that have been reported, it’ll have its work cut out. Nevertheless, I have a research trip to suggest.

First, though, a word of context. An oft-heard defence of Labour is that a party of its now vastly increased size is bound to reflect the wider population; since that population includes some antisemites, then, sadly but inevitably, so will Labour. But that swerves around a gloomier possibility: that anti-Jewish racism might exert a particular appeal to some on the left – even, paradoxically enough, those who might otherwise proudly regard themselves as anti-racists.

John Harris deftly explained the point on these pages this week, writing that Labour has embraced a form of left populism that “tends to present the very real failings of modern capitalism not as a matter of anything systemic, but as the work of a small group of people who are ruining things for the rest”. Such thinking immediately invites a question: who, exactly, are these people who have wrought such havoc? Who makes up this wicked cabal? Antisemitism is there to provide an answer, the same answer it has provided for so long and in so many places: the Jews.

That Momentum recently felt the need to produce a video urging its members not to be seduced by the age-old conspiracy theory that the Rothschilds secretly rule the world confirms that a certain kind of leftist – one who blames capitalism’s deformities on evil individuals, rather than structures – can be susceptible to the lure of antisemitism. But that should scarcely come as a shock, especially in the western societies of Christian Europe, including – perhaps especially – Britain. For in these societies capitalism – money – has always been linked to, even deemed synonymous with, Jews.

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[Soxfan58]

1. I'm Irish

I would prefer to be sterotyped as thrifty, than a drunk.

[cstanleytech]

2. Who is this "we've"? Because I can tell you that I have never done that though I have heard

some do it and I have thought it stupid as shit for them to do that.

[still_one]

3. Have you ever read The Merchant of Venice? Who were those "money changers" thrown out of the

temple

It ha been going on for thousands of years

The nazis used it in their propaganda

The OP is accurate

What do you think the term “I got Jewed” means?

I grew up getting those things hurled at me all the time,

and just like racism it is alive and well

When trump was running he put out a picture of Hillary with a Star of David in the background, and a dollar sign

Quite a few do it. It is more subtle, but it’s prevalent

[marybourg]

4. My New York born aunt was startled

when, on a car trip through the south to Florida. and having stopped at a rummage sale, someone whispered in her ear the advice to "Jew them down".

[mitch96]

5. I saw a program that mentioned that wealthy land owners used jewish money collectors

This was in Spain hundreds of years ago. I don't know if they used them b/c of religious reasons of not handling money on certain days or just trying to deflect blame on to the Jews for their tenants problems.. Interesting theory though...
All societies needs someone to dump on b/c of their problems.. That's just history I guess.
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