Deborah Lipstadt Emerges from the Darkness of the Shadows to Condemn Flu-Driven Anti-Semitism

Once again, the Jews have emerged from their shadowy places of residence to complain about people hating them, and discuss how to silence the people that hate them. What was once again missing from the equation is any mention of why it is that so many people hate them.

We are supposed to believe that not only do they not know why people hate them, but that they have no interest in finding out, and do not view the cause as important or even relevant to the discussion of the numbers of people who hate them.

Anti-Semitism remains the single problem on earth that is discussed without any examination of the cause of the problem.

Cleveland Jewish News:

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, author and historian Deborah Lipstadt is noticing a rise in anti-Semitism both from the left and the right.

What we’re seeing today is sort of a perfect storm of anti-Semitism,” Lipstadt, who teaches at Emory University, said in an ADL webinar April 30 called “Viruses and Violence: Addressing Anti-Semitism in the Shadow of COVID-19.” “We’ve seen anti-Semitism from the right and we’ve seen it from the left over history, no question about it. Anybody remembers the Soviet Union, we see it British Labour Party, and of course we see it from the right, Pittsburgh, Poway, Halle, Germany. etc. and so many other places. But rarely have we seen it simultaneously. So I think that’s what we’re seeing today.”

The webinar was part of ADL’s weekly series since the pandemic surfaced in the United States called “Fighting Hate from Home.”

Lipstadt said she is often which form is worse, and she said both are dangerous.

Anti-Semitism on the far right, Poway, Pittsburgh, Halle … tends to be more violent, tends to be more vicious, tends to be personal,” she said. “We saw that in some of the demonstrations, the liberate demonstrations, where I think in Columbus, Ohio, I think there was a placard, it looked lie an Israeli flag, the Jew was the rat, and it said, ‘the real plague.’”

What kind of evil person could look at these Jews and see rats?

I see the most beautiful people of all, whose beauty is only bolstered by their sincere belief in truth and justice.

State Rep. Casey Weinstein, D-Hudson, drew attention to that after photos were posted on social media.

“On the left, we tend to see a more institutionalized form of anti-Semitism,” she said. “And that’s dangerous, too. Because that affects a lot of people’s minds in terms of how they should feel about anti-Semitism, how they should react to anti-Semitism.”

She recommends those who place themselves on the right search for it on the right because that gives them “street cred.”

Lipstadt also recommended educating oneself to the facts – about Israel and the world – in order to be able to credibly respond to anti-Semitic statements.

Oh yes.

You really have to educate yourselves in order to know just how much stuff is anti-Semitic.

For instance, did you know that talking about “shape-shifting reptilians” is an attack on the Jews?

Jonathan Sarna, author and contemporary historian at Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass., spoke of the recurring false hope that anti-Semitism would disappear.

“It’s worth remembering there were many Jews who I think thought at the beginning of the 21th century thought anti-Semitism is history,” he said. “American Jews have become white folks. There was a book called ‘The End of American Ant-Semitism.’

“And then Pittsburgh happened and Poway, and so on,’ he said. “I think it bears remembering that when it comes to anti-Semitism, rumors of its death have been greatly exaggerated and usually it simply is a matter of inattention.”

He also said, it is important not to confuse the simple son for the wicked son, taking an analogy from the haggadah.

Jonathan Greenblatt, national director and CEO of the ADL, opened the discussion with a review of the three main myths about Jews that have fueled anti-Semitism through history: the blood libel, power and greed. He showed images of each as well.

Greenblatt defined the blood libel as “the idea that Jews are responsible for starting or spreading plague in order to murder non-Jews in their midst.”

The myth of Jewish power, he said, is “that Jews are somehow manipulating world events in order to benefit the Jewish people or … the Jewish state.”

It’s truly incredible that as the ADL organizes for the explicit purpose of using the most powerful corporations on earth, and the government itself, to silence anyone who dares question the Jews, that they begin by denouncing the existence of Jewish power.

The ADL publishes press releases about how evil people falsely claim they are powerful on the website of our nation’s highest domestic law enforcement agency.

It is so bold that many are left thunderstruck.