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Anti-Semitism
Anti-Semitism is prejudice towards, hatred of, or discrimination against Jews as a national, ethnic, religious or racial group. The term was coined in Germany in 1860 as a scientific-sounding term for Judenhass ("Jew-hatred") and does not refer to Non-Jewish Semites. Anti-Semitism takes many forms, ranging from hateful words uttered to individual Jews to organized violent attacks by mobs, state police, or even military attacks on entire Jewish communities.
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How is Holocaust denial antisemitic?
Jews claim that any person who questions their faith, or denies Holocaust accounts is a racist because they interpret it as a direct attack on their people and history.
AnswerWhile it is impossible to know what is at the heart of any person, Jews claim that any kind of Holocaust denial is a form of racism because it denies the facts put forth by Jewish scholars and historians, and questions the validity of Jewish history and tradition, and is therefore considered a form of racial discrimination.However, even though some argue that the historically accepted view of events is in fact, corrupt, it may not necessarily mean the individual is racist, or even anti-semitic. Some may even argue that the debate is reduced to a conflict of races, or ethnic discrimination, for the purpose of detracting any further investigation into the facts at the root of the discussion; essentially making the topic socially taboo, and therefore difficult to discuss and research in open circles without being labeled a bigot. It is far easier to discredit someone when they are painted the fool, or uneducated, and ignorant to history and its lessons.
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CommentThe above answer refers to '[denying] the facts put forth by Jewish scholars and historians'. This remark unwittingly answers the actual quesion very neatly.
No, the Holocaust is not some Jewish tale told by 'Jewish scholars and historians'. It is accepted in all advanced countries by practically all academic historians. The Holocaust is part of the history of 20th century Europe, of World War 2 and of World History. In fact, you'll find that professional historians are utterly scathing about Holocaust denial. Please see the related question.
Reinstated material (following vandalism):AnswerImagine that your own parents and grandparents had been murdered and that years later someone told you that you all this was just 'in your head', that you were lying - and that you were told they had simply deserted you and run away to a remote part of the world. Surely you would feel that you were being cruelly mocked.Holocaust denial mocks Jews; it's a form of Jew-baiting. Go figure ...
AnswerNext time you speak with some schmuck who tries to tell you that the Holocaust did not happen... smile, nod your head as if you are listening, and make your way to the nearest exit. You are clearly dealing with a person who is either incapable of learning, deranged to the point of being a public hazard, and/or a deliberate liar. Go to a public library, pick one of the hundreds of thousands of books, newsreels, films, documentaries, databases, firsthand accounts, confessions, etc, all attesting to this latest example of the seemingly unlimited supply of man's cruelty to man. Read some of these, until you feel sick to your stomach. Even better, take a trip to New York City, start looking for someone. You'll know him when you see him, the little old man, who can now barely walk down to the market every few days. If you can be crude enough, and have the testicular fortitude, ask him to tell you the story behind that nifty tattoo he sports on his wrist.Don't listen to idiots. Be a mensch. Read and learn. Learn the lessons history has to teach, lest we make the same mistakes.
Because there are living survivors who went through horrible trauma. They tell their story so that type of genocide won't take place in the world again. When people deny the Holocaust's existence, they are ignoring an enormous tragedy that should affect the entire species' way of thinking about war and death.
And - if you have a shred of imagination - just think how you would feel if you or someone you loved, had been put through hell - and then some nasty lil nazi told you it was all in your 'tiny little mind'
Richard Wagner
How did the German worker's party become anti-Semitic?
It was antisemitic from the outset (January 1919), like practically all German nationalist parties.
How did Hitler get everyone to hate the Jews?
He made them the scapegoat for all of Germany's problems. He blamed the Jews, especially the wealthy bankers, for the pre-war financial problems. He also blamed the Jews for Germany's capitulation of WWI in which Germany was forced to dismantle its war machine and pay huge wartime reparations.
The use of media to reach the masses was Hitlers very powerful tool for conforming everyone to an ideal of such a kind as to hate the Jews.
Radio and such was new technology so people were easily taken by what they heard.
What organization's mission was to fight the antisemitism that was common in American society?
The ADL (Anti-Defamation League).
Who had influenced Hitler's anti-semitic and politic views?
Karl Leugar who was a mayor of Vienna and he was known for his anti sematic views.
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What factors led to his hatred of Jews?
There's no definitive reason for Hitler's hatred of the Jewish people. His reasoning, however, was for their inferiority, to a point of considering them as less than human. He also put the blame for the German loss of World War 1 on the Jews, allowing an enemy for the German people to rally against.
This is because they do not think it will reach them. All the bad feelings are in another part of the world and they are safe.
Adolf Hitler was the individual who transformed the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nazis) in the 1920s, using propaganda to promote expansionism and Antisemitism. Under his leadership, the party's ideology shifted towards extreme nationalism, racism, and territorial expansion.
Why did the nanzis hate the jews so much?
German Nazis believed Jews were the biggest threat to their racial nationalism. They believed that the Aryan race was at the top of a racial hierarchy.
Was Fred MacMurray Anti-Semitic?
Probably no more so than Billy Wilder (the Jew from Vienna who directed him in two of the best movies either of them ever did).
Fred MacMurray was never noted for any particular political beliefs or biases. Publicly he was known only as a husband and father, a notoriously thrifty man (he would bring a brown-bag lunch to the studio when he was the highest-paid actor in Hollywood), and a dependable and amazingly versatile film actor.
Privately, there wasn't much to say. Fred was supposed to be a Republican, but he didn't fundraise or give speeches for anyone. He was a devout and lifelong Catholic, but did not wear religion on his sleeve. In these respects he was a little like Bob Hope, who also tried to keep political and sectarian distractions off the table, and enjoyed an immensely long and popular career.
What did the Nazi party want the German people to believe about people from the Jewish Faith?
First, we should note that what they wanted people to believe had nothing to do with the Jewish faith. They had ideas about how the Jews as human beings were deficient; they could care less about Jewish religious principles. They used the term "Untermensch" which means "subhuman" with the idea that Jews were an inferior species to "proper" humans like Western Europeans and significantly inferior to master races like the "Aryans", which Germans were supposed to be. There were other ideas like the idea that Jews were inherently traitorous, greedy, tricky, and malevolent people. In their view, no amount of conversation, education, or conversion could make a Jew acceptable because he was, by his very nature, a problem. (The best way to conceive of this is to remember the ideas promulgated about Blacks in the US in the 1800s, even though the particular accusations are different.)
They did not plan to exterminate all Jews, just those living within their reach. Whether or not they hated them is irrelevant, what matters is that they did not want Jews in their society.
The reasons for this was that they saw Jews as a threat to national security. They thought that Jews had an allegiance first to their faith rather than to the state. Most of the other reasons stem from this, they thought that Jews were more interested in making money than helping the state and that Jews were in charge of certain industries and banking, also and juxtaposed to this that they spread communism.
What event discriminated against jews?
The Hadrianic persecution, when Rome, under Hadrian, killed an estimated half-million Jews and enslaved many (quite probably another half million)? Or do you mean the Crusades, when most of the Jewish communities of the Rhineland were destroyed, driving Jewish refugees east into Poland? Or do you mean the Bubonic Plague, when Jewish communities across Europe were murdered or expelled for causing the plague? Or do you mean the expulsion of Jews from England in 1290? Or do you mean the expulsion of Jews from Spain in 1492? Or do you mean the expulsion of Jews from Lutheran lands in Germany during the Reformation, which drove more Jews into Poland? Or do you mean the Khmelnytsky Uprising in Poland, which decimated the Jewish community in what was then Polish Ukrane? Perhaps you are referring to the pogroms, anti-Jewish rioting encouraged by the Russian governments between 1880 and 1920 that drove millions of Jews to flee to Western Europe and the Americas? Or do you mean the Holocaust, orchestrated by Nazi Germany?
Why are jews hated by other races?
The question implies that Jews are a race, and that hatred of Jews is built into other races. As a matter of fact, race is a social construct with no clear biological basis, and hatred taught, not inherited through any genetic mechanism. There are Jews of every race, and there are people of every race who do not hate Jews. Sadly, there are those who hate Jews, and some of them define their hatred in racial terms.
Yes. He was rabidly antisemitc and an admirer of Hitler. From 1919 to 1927, he published the newspaper the Dearborn Independent, which expressed extremely anti-semitic views. Of course, Ford was expressing ideas that were quite common at that time. These views were based on the popular notion that the Jewish 'race' was responsible for the increasing spread of ideas supporting socialism and workers' rights [a big threat at the time, considering the communist revolution in Russia at that time], as well as an immense amount of scholarly work from the world of science, that strongly supported the idea that the 'human stock' is being contaminated through racial intermixing.
How are Adolf Hitler and Adolph Eichmann important to the Anti-Semitic campaign?
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What is anti semitism and the Holocaust?
Anti-semitism is when someone is against Jews. The holocaust (world war ll) was the killing of 6 million Jews by the Nazis led by Adolf Hitler.
Is the british royal family anti-semitic?
Absolutely. BY LAW those in the Royal Family who are not Protestant - or marry a non-Protestant, are no longer allowed to have any claim in succession of the throne.
While this is not specifically anti-semitism, it does technically mean the British Monarchy see Jewish people as inferior - along with others of any religion aside from Christianity.
Also, we all know Prince Philip is a racist anyway, there's no doubting that.
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Many Arabs who are mostly Muslim's dislike the state of Israel which is predominantly Jewish due to several wars with neighbouring Muslim states and continued mistreatment of the Palestinean People, who are also mostly Muslim.
Why did the Nazis hate the Jews in Number the Stars by Lois Lowry?
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