AntiSemitism Historical Roots of AntiSemitism AntiSemitism Hostility towards

Anti-Semitism

Historical Roots of Anti-Semitism • Anti-Semitism: Hostility towards the Jewish People. This is a modern word for an ancient malignancy.

Historical Roots of Anti-Semitism The Wandering Jew • The Jew Wanders the desert with out a home looking at Christ while clutching his Jew bag • St. Augustine of Hippo adopted this into his theology of predestination: Jews are predestined to go to hell, but first wander the earth too witness the goodness of Christianity • In 1235 the Bishop of Lincoln declared that Jews were condemned to wander the earth, bearing the mark and curse of Cain

Historical Roots of Anti-Semitism The Wandering Jew

Historical Roots of Anti-Semitism Ecclesia vs. Synagogue Ecclesia • Generally has a solid staff and a chalice Synagogue • Her staff is broken, she is blindfolded and looking down

Historical Roots of Anti-Semitism Jews as Christ Killers • In 1215 at the Fourth Lateran Council it was decreed that Jews were required to wear a distinguishing badge • So no one could mistake them as Christ killers • Based on Matthew 27: 25: “Then the people as a whole answered, “His blood be on us and on our children!” This is called the Deicide Charge (“Killing God”)

Historical Roots of Anti-Semitism Jews as Christ Killers • Jews in Germany were to wear a badge of a dunce cap • In France it was a circle

Historical Roots of Anti-Semitism Blood Libel Myth • Jews accused of killing Christian children and using their blood to make Passover matzah • A boy was found in Trent and it was believed the Jews killed the boy and he was canonized as Simon of Trent. After Vatican II his canonization was revoked.

Historical Roots of Anti-Semitism Martin Luther • “Rabini, Schemhamphoras”

Historical Roots of Anti-Semitism Martin Luther The Jews and Their Lies • “Where ever they have synagogues, nothing is found but a den of devils in which sheer self-glory, conceit, lies, blasphemy. . . are practices. ” (172) • “We are at fault in not slaying them. Rather, we allow them to live freely in our midst, blaspheming, lying, and defaming. ” (267) • “What should we do with this rejected and condemned people. . . First, to set fire to their synagogues or schools and to bury and cover with dirt whatever will not burn, so that no man will ever again see a stone or cinder of them. This is to be done in honour of our Lord and of Christendom, so that God may see that we are Christian. ” (268)

Mein Kampf • “My Struggle” • Jews: Jews don’t possess a culture of their own are parasites • Jews think they are a religion, but it is a lie, they are a race can’t be a religion because they don’t believe in an after life

Kristallnacht The Night of Broken Glass. . . • Took place November 9 -10, 1938 • On November 8, 1938, a young Jewish boy shot a German secretary, shouting he was avenging his people. The man died the next day, setting off the Kristallnacht pogrom (an attack against a vulnerable group. Usually involved mob attacks and rape).

Kristallnacht • The Germans ordered the destruction of all Jewish businesses and communal institutions • The arrest of all Jewish men between the ages of 16 -60 and their confinement to concentration camps was to accompany the vandalism of property. • The pogrom is called Kristallnacht because thousands of windows were smashed, the broken shards of glass glittered in the streets like crystal

Kristallnacht • All of Germany’s 275 synagogues were destroyed; those that did not burn were dynamited. • Places of business owned by Jews were demolished by arson, club and crowbar. • Regular police and firemen were under orders not to interfere except to protect the property of Aryans.

Kristallnacht • 236 Jews were killed • 30 000 men were taken to concentration camps • 6 Nazi officers were accused of rape, 24 for killing Jews (only 6 officers were charged) • Insurance companies paid $ 400 million to Jews, which was then confiscated by the Nazis

“White Paper Ban” • In 1938 Britain issued the “White Paper Ban” stating that German Jews could not flee to Israel • Britain had control of Israel at the time

Ghettos • Before concentration and death camps was the Ghetto • 2 large ghettos: 1) Warsaw 2) Lodz • Walled off sections in Polish cities where Jews were segregated and cut off • Some smaller ghettos had an outside workforce • Jews were self financing • Capos (“Jewish Police”) did awful thing to fellow Jews so they could stay alive longer collected taxes, enforced labour, deported families from the ghetto, penetrated hiding places most were well educated

The Shoah • Holocaust is a Greek term which means “holy burnt”, “holy devoured” • Jews prefer the word Shoah from the bible meaning “utter destruction” • IT TOOK FOUR YEARS TO KILLSIX MILLION JEWS DURING THE HOLOCAUST. This was 2/3 of European Jews, and 1/3 of the Jews in the world

The Shoah When Jews arrived at camps the procedure was: • Where there was a work force 10% were assigned to the work force • The rest were sent to the gas chambers, or “shower rooms) 1 person/sq foot gassing lasted 10 -32 minutes Used Zyklon B gas (Hydrogen cynide) finger nail scratches on walls and ceiling Capos carried bodies out and they were burned

The Jewish State • The Jewish State was created in 1948 • The United Nations voted in 1947 in favour of an Arab and Jewish partition • The UN voted the state of Israel into legitimate existence in 1948 • Britain lifted the White Paper Ban in May 1948 when they formally withdrew in Israel