Creation of the Antisemitic Mind

One of the characteristics of the foundational antisemitic paradigm described by Goldhagen is its capacity to predispose people across the globe, regardless of social, educational or economic status, to the mythical and absurd machinations of antisemitic diatribes.^[1][1] Goldhagen, Daniel Jonah. The Devil That Never Dies (p. 264). Little, Brown and Company. Kindle Edition It is this “disabolisation of the Jew”^[2][2] Joshua Trachtenberg, The Devil and the Jews, The Medieval Conception of the Jew and Its Relation to Modern Antisemitism, Jewish Publication Society, Philadelphia, 1983, p. 13 – a unique form of dehumanization of Jews as “the inveterate enemy of mankind”^[3][3] Goldhagen, Daniel Jonah. The Devil That Never Dies (p. 28). Little, Brown and Company. Kindle Edition, whether theological or secular, literal or metaphoric in expression or disposition, that has created the mechanics that distinguish antisemitism as the most enduring, pervasive and arguably most lethal of human prejudices. 

This preconception of inherent and essentialized Jewish malevolence has been the prime mover and ideational constant in the evolution of the antisemitisms of human history. And once encoded and integrated into a given society as the embodiment of the “anti-good”, the antithesis to whatever the “good” pertains to in any time and place, there is virtually no calumny that cannot readily be attributed to the Jew or Jewishness within this template as a fundamentally evil force. As such, it is this foundational antisemitic paradigm that serves as both catalyst and justification for the unconstrained, fantastical, and seemingly unlimited array of evil attributed to the Jews, across vast expanses of history and geography and in all realms of life including religion, culture, economics, sexuality, and politics.^[4][4] Goldhagen, Daniel Jonah. The Devil That Never Dies (p. 83). Little, Brown and Company. Kindle Edition As Goldhagen explains: “Because of the foundational antisemitic paradigm, in society after society antisemitism became part of the natural order of things…. The transmission of these ideas, and their societal consensus, made these ideas as natural as the notions that those peoples fundamentally differ from one another, as men do from women, and races do from one another—as natural and sure as that of any other such fixed social and cultural notions….”^[5][5] Goldhagen, Daniel Jonah. The Devil That Never Dies (p. 83). Little, Brown and Company. Kindle Edition

As noted by Robert Wistrich: “In all its myriad manifestations, the language of anti-Semitism through the ages is a dictionary of non-sequiturs and antonyms, a thesaurus of illogic and inconsistency.”^[6][6] Robert S.Wistrich, A Lethal Obsession, Anti-Semitism from Antiquity to Global Jihad, New York, Random House,(Kindle Edition) Location 257 These accusations in a multitude of configurations are common in various strains of Jew-hatred and often are leveled simultaneously, despite their overt incongruities. British historian Paul Johnson summed up^[7][7] Wistrich, Robert S.. A Lethal Obsession . Random House Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. Location 253 the fundamental contradictions in the calumnies that comprise the antisemitic whole we have listed below (and we have also added some of our own) leveled against Jews as a people, as individuals, as a national entity (the State of Israel) or as a religious community:

• In the realm of antisemitic discourse Jews are ruthless capitalists and insidious communists. Jews are behind the depredations of democracy and liberalism, and they are the drivers of Nazism, imperialism and colonialism. Jews promote godlessness and atheism and are irrationally committed to their soulless insidious religious creed. Jews promote racism and Jews are “responsible” for “race-mixing”. Jews are rootless cosmopolitans and ruthless internationalists. They are alien and particularistic, arrogantly exclusivist and malevolently assimilationist. Jews are too rich and too poor; too cultured and incapable of or a corrupter of true culture. Jews deserved the Holocaust and Jews created the holocaust hoax. The Jew is responsible for “outdated conceptions of sin, conscience, and divine redemption”^[8][8] Robert S.Wistrich, A Lethal Obsession, Anti-Semitism from Antiquity to Global Jihad, New York, Random House,(Kindle Edition) Location 405 and the Jews are crassly materialistic, purveyors of prostitution and pornography, and incapable of true spirituality. They are warmongering profiteers, deicidal murderers of prophets, and creators and spreaders of diseases like the Black Plague, COVID-19 and AIDs. They are responsible for 9/11, the murder of non-Jewish children for satanic ritual purposes, and they are a fundamental force of financial, moral, and societal corruption throughout history.^[9][9] Goldhagen, Daniel Jonah. The Devil That Never Dies (p. 5). Little, Brown and Company. Kindle Edition.; Robert S.Wistrich, A Lethal Obsession, Anti-Semitism from Antiquity to Global Jihad, New York, Random House, (Kindle Edition) Location 257

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