In a recent post, titled, “An Observation on the History of Anti-semitism“, Irish Savant writes (in part):

I’ll just make one observation at this point and it’s on something that absolutely jumped out at me. It’s this. Nowhere, and I mean nowhere, did I encounter any acceptance on the part of Jewish sources that Jewish behaviour might have contributed in any meaningful sense to the problems they encountered. (And folks, they did encounter endless problems, no arguing with that). But in every case it appears that the Christians, Muslims, Nazis…….Stalin when he turned on them, in every case the opposition was irrational, based on falsehoods and caricatures and hence totally unjustified.  Essentially anti-Semitism has been, and continues to be, driven by Christian antipathy towards those guilty of deicide, and/or envy at Jewish accomplishments.

Let there be no doubt that those two factors were powerful motivators throughout history.  But come on…there has never been a dispute in the history of man where one side was totally right, the other totally wrong.

Now I discern a larger – much larger – problem with this.  You see, if you believe that your behaviour is perfectly reasonable and acceptable, if you’re impervious to the real impact on and the perceptions of others, well, it seems to me you’re heading for a fall at some point. I believe that in fact there are many signs of this at present.

It’s painfully obvious that official Jewish sources (including the rabbis) avoid blaming Jews for anti-semitism as a matter of policy. But Jewish tradition is quite conscious of the fact that bad behavior by Jews can cause ill feelings among the gentiles. There is even a name for this: “Hillul haShem” (literally, “the desecration of the name {of God}). Conversely, when Jews behave well in front of the gentiles, it’s considered praiseworthy. This is called “Kiddush haShem (literally, “the sanctification of the name {of God})*. So, in theory, the cause-and-effect relationship is recognized. But I’m not aware of mainstream Jewish leaders saying such things as, “If only we weren’t so stingy, there would be less anti-semitism.” Though individual Jews will often recognize this.

Every ethnic group will have traits that other ethnic groups consider negative, especially if the group in question is from a different part of the world. This cannot be avoided – and it is also inevitable that outsiders will notice these flaws. It was not by choice that Jews became a Diaspora people (though individual Jews may have made that choice). This was forced upon us by the Babylonians and the Romans. Once we did become a Diaspora people, we wished to maintain our identity. Any time there is a distinctive people living among other peoples, there will be animosity. In theory, this is possible even if the distinctive people were above reproach. Over a long period of time, history will always accumulate a record of anti-”fill in the blank”. This is especially the case when the people in question are middlemen. Witness the Chinese in Malaysia or the Lebanese in West Africa. I believe that such persecution only makes the negative traits worse. It makes clannishness even more pronounced. It makes penny-pinching even more common. It accentuates distinctive physical traits (due to stricter patterns of in-marriage).

Regarding Savant’s statement: “… there has never been a dispute in the history of man where one side was totally right, the other totally wrong”, Savant almost makes it sound as if there has been an ongoing conflict between Jews and non-Jews non-stop throughout history. Reading histories of anti-semitism, it’s easy to get this impression; there has been a lot of it. But if things were that simple, with the two camps going at each other as the normal state of affairs, then Jews would have been exterminated long ago. In reality, there were many times when Jews and gentiles got along very well. Kings, emperors and Caliphs were intimate friends with famous rabbis. The Gentile peasantry and the Jewish peasantry were both very poor most of the time. They had more in common than differences. It often took venomous sermons by priests, reminding the masses that “the Jews killed Jesus” to whip them up into a bloodthirsty frenzy. Looking back at Jewish history, it’s the bloodshed, persecutions, expulsions and libels that stand out. But this was not the normal state of affairs.

The gentile peasantry was held in a state of slavery for centuries. Sometimes, it revolted and their resentment needed to be held in check. It is no secret that a scapegoat is sometimes needed to divert this frustration. Within our own lifetimes we’ve seen our governments eat away at our liberties, using the scapegoat de jour as an excuse. I remember when it was the communists. Then it was extremist Muslims. Racists and pedophiles are favorites these days. But an oppressive power always needs some sort of scapegoat and sometimes, in the past, it was the Jews. I must interject that the concept of Jews as scapegoats has been repeated ad nauseum by the Jewish hostile elite. So I hate to write the same thing myself. But let’s face it, even a broken clock is right twice a day.

Getting back to Savant’s statement about blame-sharing for past anti-semitism, as it stands, most Jews place all the blame on the gentiles, while many (if not most) white nationalists place all the blame on the Jews. It would be nice to have more balance in both camps.

It’s not possible for us to conduct surveys of past anti-semites, but no doubt a variety of root-causes were at work. My own early encounters with anti-semitism led me to believe they were fueled by tradition. I remember three off the top of my head: One from a ghetto black, another from a redneck white and a third from neo-Nazis. None of those people knew me personally and the first two were very young and must have learned it from their parents. But the anti-Semitism of today is most likely fueled by abominations such as Ireland’s Alan Shatter, who do everything in their power to destroy the indigenous peoples of Europe. If Shatter were about to be burned at the stake, I would gladly provide the match.

*This is not merely because good-will is beneficial to Jews. It’s also because it’s considered a duty to sanctify the name of God.

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