Anti Semitism In The Middle East
Throughout history Jews have been residents of predominantly Christian and Muslim lands, often resulting in conflict, turmoil, war and most evidently, Anti-Semitism. The official worldwide acknowledgment of the State of Israel in 1948 truly peaked Anti-Zionism throughout Islamic countries and the Muslim world, which then manifested itself into Anti- Semitism. It is argued that classic European Anti-Semitism that most prominently took place all over Europe during WWII is undoubtedly the worst act of Anti-Semitism to date. However, it is clear that the current wave of Anti- Semitism in Europe is different from classic European Anti- Semitism because it is stemming from Anti-Zionism. The rise of Anti-Semitism in Europe today is reminding us
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Of course two religions, Judaism and Christianity; the latter deriving from the first, were so similar that one was bound to be hostile towards the other. Traditionally, both Judaism and Christianity believe in the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, for Jews the God of the Tanakh, for Christians the God of the Old Testament, the creator of the universe. And both religions agree that God shares both transcendent and immanent qualities. These attitudes were reinforced in Christian preaching contempt for Jews, as well as statutes, which were designed to humiliate and stigmatize Jews. Scholars have debated how Christian Anti-Semitism played a role in the Nazi Third Reich, World War II and the …show more content…
This perception developed within a broader racist view of the world based on notions of "inequality" of "races" and the alleged "superiority" of the "white race" over other "races" (Bergman, 1999). Nazism was bubbling up from almost 1875 when it reached its peak in 1933, the belief in the superiority of the "white race" was both inspired and reinforced by the contact of European colonist-conquerors with native populations in the Americas, Asia, and Africa, an evolutionary theory known as "Social Darwinism” (Bergman, 1999). Social Darwinism postulated that human beings were not one species, but divided into several different "races" that were biologically driven to struggle against one another for living space to ensure their survival (Bergman, 1999). Only those "races" with superior qualities could win this eternal struggle, which was carried out by force and
Of course two religions, Judaism and Christianity; the latter deriving from the first, were so similar that one was bound to be hostile towards the other. Traditionally, both Judaism and Christianity believe in the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, for Jews the God of the Tanakh, for Christians the God of the Old Testament, the creator of the universe. And both religions agree that God shares both transcendent and immanent qualities. These attitudes were reinforced in Christian preaching contempt for Jews, as well as statutes, which were designed to humiliate and stigmatize Jews. Scholars have debated how Christian Anti-Semitism played a role in the Nazi Third Reich, World War II and the …show more content…
This perception developed within a broader racist view of the world based on notions of "inequality" of "races" and the alleged "superiority" of the "white race" over other "races" (Bergman, 1999). Nazism was bubbling up from almost 1875 when it reached its peak in 1933, the belief in the superiority of the "white race" was both inspired and reinforced by the contact of European colonist-conquerors with native populations in the Americas, Asia, and Africa, an evolutionary theory known as "Social Darwinism” (Bergman, 1999). Social Darwinism postulated that human beings were not one species, but divided into several different "races" that were biologically driven to struggle against one another for living space to ensure their survival (Bergman, 1999). Only those "races" with superior qualities could win this eternal struggle, which was carried out by force and