Leftist Anti-Semitism: A Quickie

[phthisis]

David Rosen, professor of anthropology and law at Farleigh Dickinson University, makes an interesting point while discussing Leftist anti-Semitism during another FrontPage Magazine symposium on the topic.

The central meaning of Anti-Semitism is hatred and discrimination against Jews. It developed as a cultural, social and political force in

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Re: I feel your pain

[phthisis]

Oh wow, you're asking me to explain the psychology of the oldest version of the oldest hatred. I honestly don't get it either. I guess they feel that JC is a Jew who was redeemed, by their lights. Therefore, he's no longer a Jew in any meaningful, modern sense. He's a Jew who inhabits the ancient and sacred Biblical narrative of salvation, which for religious anti-Semites is a totally different thing from the modern, recalcitrant Jew who continues to deny the revealed truth. Jews are a necessary prop in the narrative of salvation. Hence, as long as they stick to the text, they are ok.

Tracking the fundamentalist Christian conception of Jews over the centuries is an arduous task. What's interesting is how for many of them Jews have transmuted into a still-unsaved, but largely positive "transition people", for wont of a better term. General Boykin, who thinks that Muslims worship idols, would surely more than happily lionize Israel, believing it to be the locus of eschatological spiritual realization. Why are the corporeal Jews of today now esteemed in much the same way are the Jews of the Bible? This is an interesting question.

Makes sense.

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I mean, as best as it can, of course.