A History of the Jews, a list of expulsions
for 2000 years
This historical background of centuries of
anti-Semitism eventually exploded in the 20th century "Holocaust". The
hostility and hatred manifested in the holocaust was therefore not new.
As we have stated ancient writings contain much anti-Semitism. In pre-Roman
times most people did not read or write. At times, Rome tried to eradicate
Judaism and "Jewishness". Followers were assumed to be treasonous and subversive.
This in turn led to major revolts on the part of the Jewish community.
The following is a brief summary of Incidents
involving Jews in History...
135 B.C
Antiochus Epiphanes desecrates Second
Jewish Temple; leading to Hasmonean Revolt against Rome.
70 A.D.
Titus took Jerusalem - second revolt.
Over one million Jews killed.
136 A.D.
580,000 men destroyed, 985 towns destroyed
- third revolt.
300 A.D.
Purim festival celebrating God's deliverance
to Mordecai and the Jews through Esther and the fasting. Lies spread that
Jews kill Christians for sacrifice. Emperor Severus also said the Jews
purchased 90,000 Christians to kill them.
306 A.D.
Council in Spain banned Christians &
Jews meeting or marrying.
325 A.D.
Constantine changed the celebration of
Easter on the calendar so that it did not coincide with the Jewish Passover.
379 A.D.
Vicious writing by St. John Chrysostom
and St. Ambrose in Milan who said: "The Jews are the most worthless of
all men. They are lecherous, greedy, rapacious. They are perfidious murderers
of Christ. They worship the Devil. Their religion is a sickness. The Jews
are the odious assassins of Christ and for killing God there is no expiation
possible, no indulgence or pardon. Christians may never cease vengeance,
and the Jew must live in servitude forever. God always hated the Jews.
It is essential that all Christians hate them." He was called the Bishop
with the Golden Tongue. St. Ambrose, Bishop of the Church offered to burn
the synagogue himself.
395 A.D.
St. Gregory of Nyssa in sermons and writings
characterized Jews as assassins of the Prophets, companions of the Devil,
a race of vipers, a Sanhedrin of Demons, enemies of all that is beautiful,
hogs and goats in their lewd grossness.
415 A.D.
Bishop Severus BURNED THE SYNAGOGUE IN
THE VILLAGE OF MAGONA. BISHOP OF
ALEXANDRIA, ST. CYRIL EXPELLED JEWS FROM
ALEXANDRIA AND GAVE THE MOB JEWISH PROPERTY.
ACCUSATION of Ritual murder by the Jews
during Purim. Christians confiscated synagogues in ANTIOCH.
These were not hooligans but Church Fathers!
AUGUSTINE, JEROME, AMBROSE AND LESSER
SAINTS AS ST. CHRYSOSTROM AND CYRIL, added to untruths the new ones that
Jews were dishonest and prone to sexual perversions.
717 A.D.
Jews had to wear special yellow garb.
Originated in Islam.
1012 A.D.
Emperor Henry II of Germany expels Jews
from Mainz, the beginning of persecutions against Jews in Germany.
1096 A.D.
First Crusade. Crusaders massacre the
Jews of the Rhineland.
1144 A.D.
First recorded blood libel. In Norwich
it was alleged that the Jews had "bought a Christian child before Easter,
tortured him with all the tortures wherewith our Lord was tortured and
on Friday hanged him on a rood in hatred of our Lord." (England)
This notorious allegation that Jews murder
non-Jews, especially Christians, in order to obtain blood for the Passover
or other rituals is a complex of deliberate lies, trumped up accusations,
and popular beliefs about the murder-lust of the Jews and their blood-thirstiness,
based on the conception that Jews hate Christianity and mankind in general.
It is combined with the delusion that Jews are in some way not human and
must have recourse to special remedies and subterfuges in order to appear
at least outwardly, like other men. The blood libel led to trials and massacres
of Jews. Its origin is rooted in ancient almost primordial, concepts concerning
the potency and energies of blood. It is one of the most terrible expressions
of human cruelty and credulity. These blood rituals are expressly forbidden
in Judaism. (See Leviticus 17;11 etc.)
1190 A.D.
Massacre of Jews in England.
1215 A.D.
The Jewish badge introduced.
1240 A.D.
Talmud burned in France.
1290 A.D.
Jews expelled from England.
1298 A.D.
Massacre of thousands in Germany, in 146
localities.
1306 A.D.
Expulsion from France.
1348 A.D.
JEWS blamed for the BLACK DEATH. Charge
laid to the Jews that they POISONED the wells to kill CHRISTIANS.
1389 A.D.
MASSACRES in Bohemia, Spain.
1421 A.D.
270 JEWS BURNED AT THE STAKE. In the 14th
and 15th centuries the Inquisition was more intense because the Church
and State joined forces. Just being Jewish guaranteed persecution
1480 A.D.
Inquisition in Spain - Jews and Christians
burned at the stake.
1483 A.D.
EXPULSIONS from Warsaw, Sicily, Lithuania,
Portugal.
1492 A.D.
ALL JEWS EXPELLED FROM SPAIN.
1506 A.D.
Murders in Lisbon - 4000, "conversos",
men, women, and children thrown from windows to street mobs below, due
to preaching by Dominicans against the Jews.
1510 A.D.
EXPELLED from Brandenburg, Germany.
1516 A.D.
Venice initiates the ghetto, the first
in Christian Europe.
1544 A.D.
The Reformation. At the end of Martin
Luther's life the German reformer vilified the Jews in violent pamphlets
which could not fail to exert their influence. But because Calvinists were
steeped in Old Testament theology, the Dutch people respected the Jews
as "the Chosen" people; and were not anti-Semitic in their faith. The reformation
was a time of turmoil as the Roman Church and feudalism lost their supremacy.
There was a rising up of Nationhood and Luther was a German nationalist.
The Talmud was seized and burned everywhere by Papal authority. Jews in
Catholic countries and Polish Jews suffered greatly. Luther's anti-Semitic
writings were later used in anti-Semitic literature.
1553 A.D.
Rome seized and burned the Talmud by order
of the POPE.
1559 A.D.
12,000 copies of Talmud burned in Milan.
1569 A.D.
POPE PIUS V ordered all Jews out of the
Papal states.
1593 A.D.
EXPULSIONS from Italy and Bavaria.
1598 A.D.
Ritual murder charge that sent three Jews
to their deaths. Execution of the supposed guilty was done by QUARTERING.
(In his book the "Birth of the Prison" Michel Foucault describes at length
the quartering of a condemned man in 1757. It was done eventually by six
horses instead of the four original ones and other means had to come in
to play due to the failure even of six horses as the prisoners limbs were
tied to ropes harnessed to the horses. Each horse pulled in a different
direction. One horse fell to the ground unsuccessfully. Knives had to be
used for severing...)
1614 A.D.
JEWS attacked and driven out of Frankfurt,
Germany.
1624 A.D.
GHETTO established in Ferrara, Italy.
1648 A.D.
Leader of the Cossacks, in the Ukraine
massacres 100,000 Jews and destroyed 300 communities.
1655 A.D.
Massacres of Jews in war against Sweden
& Russia by Poland.
1715 A.D.
POPE PIUS VI issues edict against Jews.
1768 A.D.
20,000 Jews in Poland killed.
1805 A.D.
MASSACRE of Jews in Algeria.
1840 A.D.
BLOOD LIBEL in DAMASCUS.
1853 A.D.
BLOOD LIBEL in RUSSIA.
1858 A.D.
THE MORTARA CASE: Catholics abduct a 7
yr. old Jewish child. A Catholic servant baptized a Jewish child when the
child was seriously ill and the church of Rome seized the child. Outcry
had no effect on the POPE.
1879 A.D.
Word anti-Semitism comes into existence.
1881 A.D.
POGROMS BEGAN. The word is of Russian
origin. It designates attack, accompanied by destruction, looting of property,
murder, rape. There were three major outbreaks in Russia. The word designates
more particularly the attacks carried out by the Christian population.
Each pogrom surpassed the other in savagery.
KIEV, ODESSA; Here murder of whole families
was a common occurrence. Partial data are available for 530 communities
in which 887 major pogroms and 349 minor pogroms occurred. There were 60,000
dead and several times that many were wounded.
1882 A.D.
FIRST ANTI-JEWISH CONGRESS HELD. In Dresden,
Germany.
1894 A.D.
ALFRED DREYFUS TRIAL in France. Details
follow further on in this summary.
1903 A.D.
APPEARANCE of a new issue of the PROTOCOLS
OF THE ELDERS OF ZION. In Russia.
This spectre of a worldwide Jewish conspiracy
aiming at reducing the Gentiles to slavery or extermination loomed up in
the medieval Christian imagination and grew out of legends about well poisonings
and plague spreading. It was concocted in Paris by an unknown author working
for the Russian secret police. It was an alleged conference of the leaders
of World Jewry. It was translated into all the world languages. In 1963
a Spanish edition was published. During World War II, the Protocols of
the elders of Zion became an implicit justification for the GENOCIDE of
the Jews and Nazi propaganda relied on them until the last days of the
Third Reich. Smaller pamphlets of it have been distributed in B.C. 1983
published in California... Required reading in most Arab countries, in
schools, to this day.
1905 A.D.
Russian pogroms continue. Also in Morocco,
Ukraine, 300 dead.
1919 A.D.
3000 Jews killed in Hungarian pogroms.
1920 A.D.
Appearance of ADOLPH HITLER. Also Henry
Ford the 1st believes the Protocols; and publishes anti-Jewish articles
in his newspaper, the Dearborn Independent.
1925 A.D.
MEIN KAMPH appears. Hitler's Plan published
in Germany.
1933 A.D.
HITLER appointed chancellor in Germany.
1935 A.D.
Hitler writes his Nuremberg Laws which
lead to his Final Solution.
1938 A.D.
Burning in AUSTRIA & GERMANY of Synagogues.
Jews sent to concentration camps. Beginnings of the Holocaust.
1939 A.D.
Germany overruns Poland.
1940 A.D.
Gassing, shootings in Polish Ghettos (Jewish).
1941 A.D.
EXPULSION of Jews from the German Reich
to Poland. Riots against Jews in Iraq.
1942 A.D.
Mass transports of Jews to Belgium &
Holland.
1944 A.D.
EXTERMINATION OF HUNGARIAN JEWS.
1945 A.D.
HOLOCAUST Final Count: 6,000,000 Jews
slaughtered.
1946 A.D.
Pogroms in Poland - 42 Jews murdered.
1948 A.D.
BIRTH OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL. Also Jewish
intellectuals shot in Russia.
1952 A.D.
Jews murdered byCommunists, and others
disappear. Prague trials. Murder of Yiddish intellectuals in Russia and
many sent to work camps..
1956 A.D.
Jews expelled out of EGYPT.
1967 A.D.
SIX DAY WAR. Also new publication of Elders
of Zion in Arabic.
1968 A.D.
Emigration of last remaining Jews in Poland.
1969 A.D.
JEWS EXECUTED IN IRAQ.
1970 A.D.
Beginning of imprisonment in Russia of
PRISONERS OF CONSCIENCE. ("Refuseniks")
1980 A.D.
Russian imprisonments carry on throughout
the 70's to the 80's.
1982 A.D.
War in Lebanon begins after many years
of terrorist attacks against the Jews in the Upper Galilee area from the
vantage point of Beaufort Castle. Many Lebanese killed over long period
of time, but was ignored by the News Media. War in Lebanon gets slanted
coverage.
1983 A.D.
Word from Christians in Israel that the
PLO planned their next battleground to be Canada via Quebec. Documented
proof that Russia planned in 1982 to attack Israel.
SUMMARY:
The word "anti-Semitism" is inadequate. It
is a misnomer. The word was coined in 1879 from the Greek words "anti",
meaning "against" and "Semite", meaning a descendant of Shem. The word
was first used by Wilhelm Marr a German agitator, who created it to explain
the current anti-Jewish campaigns in Europe. Since the Arab peoples are
also Semitic people it is not the best expression. Anti-Jewish, and Jew-
hatred, are more descriptive. It is more than just prejudice. The word
came into general use in the past hundred years and encompasses all forms
of hostility manifested toward Jews throughout history.
There can be economic and social or racial
anti-Semitism. It didn't reach epidemic proportions until 175 B.C. Previous
uprisings against Jews were not really anti-Semitic. It began almost exclusively
in countries which later became part of the Roman Empire. Prejudice flared
it seems because Jewish people in honouring their Jewish laws, appeared
to be in defiance of Gentile governments. The false assumption began to
emerge that Jews didn't have any respect for whatever was held in esteem
by the rest of humanity.
In the Greek Hellenistic period no other
nation denied the gods of it's neighbours; on the contrary they recognized
those gods, identifying them with their own deities. These heathen "gods"
created a social bond between people in their domains. None of the people
refrained from dining at table with their neighbours and from partaking
of the sacrifices offered to their gods except the Jews. None of the peoples
refused to send gifts to its neighbours temples, except the Jews. None
of the peoples was unequivocally hostile to intermarriage except the Jews.
In the eastern Mediterranean area friction
arose over the difference in occupations between Jews and Gentiles. The
Jewish population was engaged primarily in small scale farming; the non-Jewish
population occupied itself primarily in commerce. The sea trade was almost
entirely in the hands of the trans-Jordanian cities, which connected Syria,
Asia Minor and the regions of the Euphrates with the Arabian countries.
The inhabitants of Eretz Israel had connections abroad. Non-Jews also knew
that Jews looked upon their land as their divine inheritance.
The first serious manifestation of anti-Semitism
was in the days of the Syrian, Antiochus Epiphanes in 175 B.C. Hellenistic
rulers saw the unfriendliness of the Jews as obstacles to the cultural
scene. He undertook to destroy those laws of the Talmud that he regarded
as unacceptable to humanity. To this end he desecrated their place of worship
by sacrificing a pig on their altar in Jerusalem, and ordered that the
residual juices be sprinkled over the Holy Books containing these Jewish
laws.
Greek authors in the first century portrayed
the Jewish people as descendants of a mob of lepers. They further stated
that because of this uncleanness Jews shunned the flesh of pigs, since
pigs were more prone to contract disease. The Gentiles knew that their
own pagan religions and practices rendered them unclean in the eyes of
the Jews.
The fact remains that even after four thousand
years the idea of a covenant between the Jews and Jehovah is still alive;
and is mentioned daily in prayers in synagogues throughout the world. The
idea of a covenant with God has remained constant. Because Jehovah is immortal
He never dies and because He never dies He never has to be reincarnated.
Thus the Jews dispensed with the reincarnation rites of the pagans. The
Jews' God was invisible. The concept of "one God", Jehovah, being completely
withdrawn from sexuality led to a curb of licentious impulses through inner
discipline. By contrast ,the Greek gods themselves set the pattern for
the unbridled lust and perversion which finally weakened the moral fibre
of that people; whereas the Jews, even when they later came in contact
with the Greeks, refused to indulge in the Grecian sexual excesses, which
included even temple prostitution. The Jewish religion did away with all
fertility rites.
As a consequence of the Jewish dietary
laws, intermarriage was forbidden and no real social intercourse with gentiles
was possible. Also, Jews refused to enter into Emperor worship. It was
considered to be an expression of loyalty to the state. About their own
religious practices a libel began to circulate that Jews actually sacrificed
humans on their altars, allegedly using the blood for Passover rites. Further
it was said that the sacrificed person must be a Christian or one of their
children. This became known as the "Blood Libel" against the Jews. It mattered
not that it was a total fabrication.
Another libel circulating was that unclean
leprous people were expelled from Egypt, and that the Jews were these people.
Therefore, being foreigners, it was stated that the Jews had no right to
claim ancient Israel as their divinely given land.
The destruction of the temple by Titus
in 70 AD was seen as hatred by God of the Jews, and as punishment. Jews
in Rome felt the barbs of Roman writers. Nero's teacher was anti-Semitic.
Cornelius Tacitus wrote about every libellous fabrication against Jews
that he could find in Greek anti-Semitic literature. Juvenal wrote a poem
revealing that to him the Jews were hateful not only to man but to the
gods as well.
In the fourth century AD, when Constantine
became the Roman Emperor and supposedly converted to Christianity, he harnessed
Political power to Religion and passed anti-Jewish laws, whereby Jews were
excluded from every sphere of political influence, and denied civic rights.
The Gospel accounts began to be the source
from which wrong teachings grew, until the word "Deicide" meant the Jews
killed God, and were labelled "Christ-killers". Matthew 27:25 which spoke
of some Jewish leaders was used instead to apply to all Jews: "His blood
be on us and on our children...Ye are of your father the devil."
Converts to Christianity and converts to
Judaism sparked a seriously divisive rivalry. Religious competition began
between the Greek fathers of the Church, and Jews. Church laws were passed
whereby Jewish relations with Christian women was now punishable by death.
Anti-Semitism at this time was mainly limited to the clergy, who were the
educated minority.
Islam arose in the seventh century AD,
and also attacked the Jews because the Jews did not recognize Muhammad
as a legitimate Prophet. The Koran contained their writings; and many statements
in it were hostile to Jews. In the Middle Ages church councils legislated
to prevent contact with the Jews because Christians were saying after visiting
synagogues that the Jews were better priests.
CONCLUSION:
The above catalogue is only the tip of the iceberg! One would think that
anti-Jewish atrocities would have ended with the nightmare of the Holocaust.
One-third of the world's Jews were murdered by an ungodly German conspiracy
that had accused the Jews of "conspiracy". It is not often emphasized that
two-thirds of the world's Jews survived; and that due to the faithfulness
of their G-d. God has again, as in times past, protected them from total
extermination, as He promised. (the Book of Esther, and Jeremiah 31:35-37)
The Holocaust was the final catalyst which
led to the re-creation of the State of Israel in 1948. But we have to go
back at the very least to the DREYFUS CASE to understand the long range
process.
Alfred Dreyfus was the son of a wealthy
Alsatian family in France. He entered the French Army in 1892 and became
a Captain, and the only Jew. He was framed by a fellow officer for allegedly
giving secrets to the enemy, arrested and tried for treason. He was sentenced
to life imprisonment. Eventually Emile Zola took up the fight proclaiming
the man's innocence and published an open letter to the President of France
titled "I ACCUSE." Dreyfus was eventually declared unjustly convicted by
the Parliament of France. The injustice was totally motivated by Jew-hatred.
During the course of the trumped-up trial
a Jewish journalist became involved; and he was the man that was to lead
the Jews back to their Land. His name was THEODORE HERZL (1860 - 1904 A.D.)
and he called European Jewry together in Basle, Switzerland in 1897 at
the now famous "First World Zionist Congress". There in 1897 he publicly
predicted to friend and foe alike that the Jews would be back in "the Land"
of Palestine "within 50 years". In 1947, exactly fifty years later the
United Nations passed the "Resolution For the Partition of Palestine",
which lead to the declaration of Statehood on May 14,1948.
With the shouts of "death" to the Jews
still ringing in his ears from the Dreyfus Trial, Herzl became convinced
that the only solution was the mass exodus of the Jews from their present
places of residence to a territory of their own... So out of the suffering
of the Dreyfus family came the State of Israel. Herzl became the father
of Political Zionism and founder of the World Zionist organization.
Herzl was born in Budapest. He left a German
students society in 1883 in protest against his first encounter with anti-Semitism.
He came across this "Jewish problem" again and again in his life. Although
he graduated in 1884 with a doctorate of law he left the legal profession
and became a famous writer. He wrote many literary works, some of them
plays.
In 1891 he became the Paris correspondent
of a Vienna newspaper. He pursued politics and organized the first Zionist
Congress is Basle in 1897. (In 1960, Israel issued a centenary stamp with
a well known painting of Herzl on the bridge at Basle.) The World Zionist
organization was formed. He was chairman and remained so for the next five
congresses. He knew Great Britain would be the deciding factor in the realization
of Zionist aims. In 1917 the Balfour Declaration became the launching-pad
for the founding of the modern Jewish state.
Herzl did not have an easy task. Even his
own people were difficult on this issue. His heart failed in 1904. He did
not live to see the creation of Israel in 1948. But in 1949 he was laid
to rest, reinterred in a place that was named in his honour Mount Herzl,
in Jerusalem. A Herzl monument stands nearby. The anniversary of his death
on the 20th of Tammuz was declared a National Memorial Day in Israel. In
the April 1983 issue of the NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, following a report on
Jerusalem there is a picture that could be titled: "The sorrow of the Jewish
People". There are three young Israeli ladies, soldiers, who happen to
be very beautiful standing or kneeling at the Herzl Tomb site where there
are three new graves...the first soldiers to die in the 1982 conflict in
Lebanon.
1983 was the 50th anniversary of Hitler's
rise to power; since he was made chancellor in 1933. There was an extensive
report on this subject in the April 1983 issue of the Jerusalem Post. Their
man in Bonn stated: "There has been no substantial break with the past.
Therefore West German Democracy must continue to be subject to question
by Germans more than by anyone else." The Post also offered these words
which are worth contemplating. Perhaps you never considered this. I had
not...
"The destruction that Hitler brought
on his own people ranks only after the mass murder he committed on the
Jews and the destruction and death rained upon the Soviet Union. He left
Germany not only physically ruined, but stripped of its' self respect,
ashamed of its' place in human history, uncertain of its' identity, seeking
refuge in the compulsive reconstruction of material damage."
They also mentioned...
"The war Hitler unleashed and
the organized mass murder that was a central part of his design cost the
lives of 40 million human beings in Europe alone. Among them 6,000,000
Jews - two-thirds of the Jews in Europe. More than 6,000,000 of his own
people also died and others were left hungry."
God promised Abraham: "I will bless those
who bless you (and your descendants); and I will curse those who curse
you" (Genesis 12:1-3) We can see that the Germans have paid an awful price
for allowing this man to lead them down a path contrary to Scripture, by
declaring them to be a super race. The man who wanted to obtain the whole
world, gained nothing but eternal damnation. He and those who followed
him lost everything.
What about Canada?
Most of us would be quick to say that
our hands are clean. A truly shocking indictment of our role in the Holocaust
can be found in the book "None is Too Many". This title was taken from
a statement made by an immigration official when a delegation of Jews went
to Ottawa in 1939 to ask: "How many Jews will Canada take in?" The Immigration
Minister answered "None is too many".
The authors, Irving Abella and Harold Troper,
published this book in 1982 and was on the Canadian Best Sellers List.
They received an award early in 1983 for it. It is thoroughly researched
and documented proof that our top bureaucrat in the Immigration Department,
Fred Blair, a professing Christian, wanted no Jews in Canada and did everything
he could in the way of roadblocks to prevent it. In studying it I find
I want to scream with the agony of our shame.
MacKenzie King didn't want them. Perhaps
he was too busy talking to his dead mother and his dead dog as he gazed
into his crystal ball (all told in his published diaries). The authors
record that Canada's Prime Minister thought Hitler had a good face and
that he was sweet. King was deathly afraid of what Quebec would do if he
gave in and allowed in refugees. The French -Canadian press was very hostile
to Jews (Le Devoir). There was also a very vocal fascist Party in Quebec;
headed by Adrianne Arcand.
Blair had the opportunity to rescue thousands,
but wouldn't budge on his restrictive policy. He just didn't want any Jewish
immigrants.
Lester Pearson said that we didn't have
a boat. Ottawa would not listen either to the pleas of George Vanier; even
though he was Canadian Ambassador to France and was there on the scene.
Conservative Robert Manion didn't want
any either. In the midst of all of the obstruction the Toronto Globe &
Mail asked at one point "Does Canada stand for anything?" Manion wanted
no Jews as long as Canadians were unemployed. Ernest LaPointe of Quebec
and the Le Devoir newspaper and Vincent Massey of External Affairs wanted
Jews kept out of Canada. Massey was a fringe member of the Pro-German anti-Semitic
Cliveden set centred around Lord and Lady Astor in London; where Vincent
was Canadian High Commissioner.
We had one social worker on the scene and
her name was Charlotte Whitton, outspoken Mayor of Ottawa. She fiercely
fought not to have Jewish children here as she favoured British children.
She led a movement to evacuate endangered British mothers and children.
The Canadian Jewish Congress saw her as an enemy of Jewish immigration.
Oscar Cohen said she "almost broke up the inaugural meeting of the congress
on Refugees by her insistent opposition and very apparent anti-Semitism."
The saddest story I have ever read in my
life is the whole chapter from the Abella book titled "The children that
never came." It takes care of any pride we may have in being Canadians.
It is documented evidence 25 pages in length of continuous pleading on
behalf of officials in places like France and Poland to take children whose
lives were in immediate danger. Blair's hard hearted efforts lead to the
declaration in the end of that chapter that reads: "There were no more
schemes to help...save the refugee children. None were needed." By the
time of the allied invasion of France in June 1944 most of these children
had been murdered. NOT ONE of them had made it to Canada! They had been
talking at times about as many as 5000.
I am happy to report that good has come
out of the publishing of this book. The authors report that Lloyd Axworthy,
current Minister of Immigration, apologized for the behaviour of predecessors
and promised that it would never happen again. But also having read some
papers by these authors prior to publication, Ron Atkey, former Conservative
Minister of Immigration, took the responsibility and opened the doors to
the BOAT PEOPLE because he did not want to be known as another Frederick
Blair.
In "Bridges for Peace", the 1983 issue
from Tulsa, Oklahoma we read about the state of anti-Semitism as in this
day, media coverage is slanted.
"While some would have you believe
the world is becoming a better place and anti-Semitism is on the wane,
I believe that careful observation will prove otherwise. In the last two
years, we have seen a growing double standard used by the media in reporting
events concerning Israel. And as we saw this past summer in Greece, Italy,
and France, this very distorted, even false media reporting about Israel's
involvement in Lebanon resulted in attacks against local Jewish communities
solely because they were Jewish; regardless of their affiliation with Israel.
For example: In France a video tape of a Palestinian boy holding his bleeding,
dying sister was repeatedly shown as the result of an aggressive Jewish
attack on civilians in Lebanon. Local Frenchmen, incensed by this news,
staged an anti-Israel, anti-Jewish march which culminated in the bombing
of synagogues and Jewish owned businesses killing many. It was later proven
that this video tape was six years old and showing the destruction of the
Tel-Zatar refugee camp by the SYRIANS in 1976. Jews were NOT even involved
but the ugly head of Anti-Semitism had already shown itself."
AND SO IT NEVER SEEMS TO END.
But it will. One day the Bible says we
shall take the hem of the Jews' skirt and go with them to Zion because
we know God is with them. Zechariah tells us that the Lord will come and
place His feet on the Mount of Olives. He will fight for His people Israel
against all the nations of the world. All the land of Israel will dwell
in safety and peace when the Messiah comes. He will rule and reign from
Jerusalem, the Son of David, sitting on David's throne. (Read 2 Samuel
7:11-16; and Psalm 2:6-8;and 89:20-37)
Regardless of Israel's sins of the past
the Lord will forgive, cleanse, and restore (Jeremiah 31:31-34).
Christians throughout the world are awakening
to a call to stand by the side of the Jewish people. Beginning in 1979
Christians in Jerusalem rallied to her side when the governments of the
World began to pull their embassies out of Jerusalem in fear because of
the Arab oil power. The "International Christian Embassy, Jerusalem" was
established. With people like Jan Willem Van Der Hoeven and the Comfort
Zion ministry of Merv and Merla Watson, Jews are beginning to be provoked
to jealousy. They are watching Christian love in action; and hope is being
reborn when they see 5000 Christians celebrating during the Jewish "Feast
of Tabernacles", dancing with joy on Mount Zion and supporting them in
their hour of need.
If Canada's Joe Clark had kept his promise
to move our embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv, he would have done better.
Six months after breaking his promise he ceased to be Prime Minister; and
twelve months later he was removed as Leader of the Progressive-Conservative
Party.
Coincidence? God hears our promises; even
"election promises". The Scripture says God will bless those who bless
Israel and curse those who curse her. Every nation that has persecuted
the Jews has, in the long run, inherited the negative side of God's promise
to Abram: "and I will curse those who curse you (and your descendants)."
SO IN CONCLUSION:
Anti-Semitism is a venomous condition
of the heart of man and not just prejudice, hatred or discrimination. Jealousy
and envy of the Jew more than anything else seems to be the main root of
this condition. It is a spiritual problem. But Jeremiah said it best and
it is truth from God's Word... "The heart is deceitful, and desperately
wicked; who can know it?".
Anti-Semitism engages man in a conduct
that is: inconceivable, unbelievable, shocking, grotesque, incomprehensible,
unthinkable, inhumane and intolerable.
This information has been gleaned from
Alan Lazerte's course on anti-Semitism given at Fraserview Assembly, January,
February and March 1983 as Director of the Canadian Friends of the International
Christian Embassy, Jerusalem.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Bridges for Peace-current news direct from
Christians in Israel through Tulsa.
The Jerusalem Post - current news direct from
Jews in Israel.
The ISRAEL POCKET LIBRARY BOOK ON ANTI-SEMITISM.
Canadian Book "None is Too Many", Irving Abella
and Harold Troper.
Friends of the Christian Embassy Canada, Israel
Report.
Jews' God and History; by Max I. Dimont. A
Signet Book.
The information from this course was a shock
to most of us; it was an eye opener in many ways, especially regarding
the Christians persecution of the Jew; which contributed to the Nazi attempt
to totally exterminate them. This essay was written as a requirement of
taking seriously Alan's attempt to put the course together. He did his
part as teacher excellently. God has chosen well. I was eager to learn.
At Alan' suggestion this essay is being printed to circulate to others
who may not have a chance to attend the lectures. It is also printed to
cement my own vow before God to bridge the gap and make amends to the Jew
for the way Christians, the Canadian Government and others have failed
them.
I dedicate this to the children that never
came; and to my brother who died trying to stop a mad man that was on the
loose in Germany.
Writers: Laureen
Moe
Source: Canadian
Friends, International Christian Embassy, Jerusalem
http://www.cdn-friends-icej.ca/antiholo/summanti.html
This page was produced by Joseph
E. Katz
Middle Eastern Political and Religious
History Analyst
Brooklyn, New York
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