Antisemitism

It is amazing, at least to me, the logic of the antisemite. They cite as "evidence" of their position, the exception as the rule. They point to the Rothschilds and Morganthaus to prove their point of Jewish control of banks and investment and forget the thousands of Jews who live in abject poverty and many more who live in less than a well-to-do status. They mention the over-representation of Jews in banking and investing and forget (conveniently) that it was a whole succession of popes and Christian religious leaders such as "Saint" Augustine and Martin Luther who condemned Jews to secondary citizenship and banned them from owning property and businesses. In fact, it was St. Augustine, not Adolph Hitler or the Nazis, who "invented" the yellow star of David to be worn by Jews to easily identify them, and who created the first ghetto. The question that one must ask is, if Jews are so easily identifiable, supposedly by their racial characteristics, why was it necessary to "identify" them in the first place? It is forgotten that money lending (forbidden as usury by the Catholic church) was the one of the few professions left for Jews to practice.

There was of course, other professions such as medicine and law but soon enough, guess what? The antisemites were complaining that Jews were "over-represented" in these professions. The result was the quota system allowing maybe 10 percent of all medical students in a university such as Harvard Medical School, for one bad example, to be from the Jewish faith. If you looked at this correctly, the antisemites were saying the Jew was so superior to the non-Jew they had to "protect" themselves from this "superior" race of human beings. Of course, their argument was that Jews got into universities through perfidy, lies and subterfuge that non-Jews were much too honorable to use.

And they also say that the Jew has added nothing to civilization; completely ignoring Ehrlich, Salk, Sabin, Neil Simon, Bennie Goodman, Herman Wouk, Dinah Shore, Jack Benny, The Marx Brothers, Mendelsohn, and,of course, Albert Einstein, who they instinctively know is wrong simply because he was Jewish. One blogger even admits that he is not Aryan, Christian or a Nazi, but he has nothing to do with Jews. That's a great idea. That will prevent him from ever finding out anything that might contradict his sick ideas.