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 the Greeks.
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
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by Joseph
E. Katz
Middle Eastern Political
and Religious
History Analyst
Brooklyn, New York
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