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Conspiracies about a 'catastrophic takeover' by Jews have long been an American problem

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By Jonathan D. Sarna

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Rumors about Jews stealing and sacrificing Christian babies were rampant in 19th Century Russia. That Putin's trolls have continued in that vein in their attacks on American cyberspace follows a tradition of ridiculous conspiracies about Jews.

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Since this obvious Left-leaning hit piece absolutely fails to mention anyone on the Left actually being or doing anything anti-Semitic, can we introduce the much more recent examples of, say:

-Louis Farrakhan's claim that he's not an anti-Semite, no, he's just "anti-termite" (implying Jews are pests infiltrating his home). Obama LOVED Farrakhan, didn't he? Yes, yes he did.

-The New York Times serially employing "journalists" who habitually link their twitter feeds to openly anti-Semitic content, or the Times itself publishing anti-Semitic anti-Netanyahu cartoons in its paper and online content?

-Illan Omar, Democrat, in responding to a racist tweet about Jews "dominating" political contributions in the US (a blatant lie), agreed, claiming "|t's all about the Benjamins, baby!" (referring to 100 dollar bills, ie, Jews control American politics through their financial contributions and control.)

-Black Lives Matter's serial, and chronic anti-Semitic stances and statements that are absolutely and openly anti-Semitic in nature and implication...BLM, Biden's best friends. Take a knee for the Anti-Semites, Brandon!

I could go on...and on...and on, and everyone knows numerous examples of their own they can contribute, yet this hit piece says NOTHING about even a single Democrat or Leftists' open anti-Semitic stances.

Hmmm...bias much, Japan Today? But of course! It's what you do, after all, isn't it?

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You seem to have your line between criticizing Israeli policies/politics and actually being anti-semitic very blurred

Hito Bito is right. And saying, "I'm not anti-Jewish, I am anti-Zionist" provides great cover for the left. As a Jew, I find the hate speech of those he listed far more threatening than the hate speech of a handful of redneck nutters who the FBI tries to paint as a huge terrorist threat. The ones with followers, power and social support behind their poisonous views are the ones who worry me.

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It's not an American problem actually, this crazy notion that Jews run the world or that they can't be trusted or they are tight with money etc. has been going on for hundreds of years even before there was a US.

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My doctor, my banker and my lawyer are all Jewish. It's a conspiracy I tell you. You don't know how big the US government is, it goes all the way to the president. The Egyptians knew about it, Shakespeare knew about it, Hitler knew about it. That's why the Israelites fled and wondered the dessert for 30 years until they made it to Hollywood and gave the world Larry David, the most diabolical of all. Alt right nut jobs probably don't even understand sarcasm. Lol.

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AOC and her “Squad” seem to be as worried about Jews as the looney, yet minuscule far right. They keep on about the influence of Jewish money in American politics and are all in support of undermining Israel. The antisemitic Left in America is vast and can be seen throughout American universities and broad based movements like BLM. I have never understood why people are so hateful towards a group of people who are generally very intelligent and successful. They have a culture that values hard work, education and success. There is much about Jews to admire. I think it comes done to envy - which is pretty much the driving force for the ideological Left the world over.

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Rumors about Jews stealing and sacrificing Christian babies were rampant in 19th Century Russia.

Expand your historical horizon a bit please. The Russians were late to the party. In fact a nation known as Russia didn't yet exist when these stories first started to circulate. Early in beginnings of Christianity the Romans claimed Christians were taking Roman babies and sacrificing them in rituals. During Medieval times Christians turned that story around accusing Jews of using the blood of Christian babies to make Matzo balls among other wild claims. These became a large part of the justification for the Inquisition. It was Polish and Russian pogroms that laid the ideological foundation for the zionist movement but the rest of Europe was far from blameless. Jews and Gypsies were widely reviled all across Europe. Dreyfus Affair anyone? Hitler's "final solution" was sort of the culmination of these trends and you find plenty of people in the nations Hitler conquered eager to help. Likewise nations like the US and UK among others were reluctant to accept Jewish refugees fleeing Hitler. The horrors of WWII was a hard lesson that acted to greatly suppress anti-Semitism in the west but a variety of factors not the least of which is most people alive didn't live through those horrors have led to a resumption of anti-Semitism.

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 I have never understood why people are so hateful towards a group of people who are generally very intelligent and successful. 

Which exactly describes the many immigrants I know, both among my family and those I encounter at work, where I shop, whom I hire for projects in my home, etc. Why all the hate and resentment directed towards hard working, honest immigrants? People of all political stripes often think one groups success comes at their expense. That is emphatically not the case.

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AOC and her “Squad” seem to be as worried about Jews.

That is a mischaracterization. It is anger at Israeli government policies towards Arabs who live in lands conquered in war by Israel. It is anger at deliberate Israeli government policies designed to displace Arabs from the land they own and replace them with Jewish people. That is what is happening in East Jerusalem. Under the 4th Geneva Convention an occupying power is not permitted to forcibly displace residents from their land or their homes. The occupying power is not permitted to act as the civil government of occupied lands and those under occupation may not be required to profess any kind of loyalty to the occupying power. These laws are the result of two world wars designed to make conquest of foreign lands illegal. Israel flagrantly violates these laws but try to call them on this. The critic is immediately dismissed as an "anti-Semite" relieving the Israeli government and its supporters of any need to listen to criticism. Btw, if you lived here you would know that many, possibly a majority, of American Jews have as low an opinion of Israeli policies towards the Arabs as "the Squad" has. But they are shouted down and dismissed too, accused of "self hate".

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