Fun fact: non-stop Semitic whining like this is far more likely to make people anti-Jew than any sculpture
We have an interesting win for Christians against the Jews in Germany of all places.
Of course, it is framed in terms of protecting art heritage and so on. But it’s still a win.
Germany’s top court ruled on Tuesday that an anti-Semitic, medieval sculpture can stay on the facade of a church in the eastern town of Wittenberg, rejecting an appeal by a Jewish plaintiff who has for years argued it is an insult to all Jews.
The 13th century “Judensau” or “Jew Sow” on the town church depicts a caricature of a rabbi lifting the tail of a sow and two Jewish children suckling on the teats. Pigs are considered unclean in Judaism.
At a time when politicians are warning about rising anti-Semitism in Germany, the ruling is a reminder of widespread anti-Jewish sentiment in the Middle Ages.
Thanks for that, Reuters.
(Most people seem to be unaware of just how aggressive Reuters and the AP have gotten in injecting editorial content into wire stories. They’ve abandoned all pretense of objectivity.)
The plaintiff has been waging a court battle for years to have the sandstone carving, about 4 metres from the ground, removed.
However, the Federal Court of Justice, the country’s top appeals court, upheld rulings from lower courts which dismissed the case, saying there was no breach of the law.
The transformation over the years of the relief into a memorial that was testimony to the Christian Church’s centuries-long anti-Jewish attitudes was one way to avoid a violation of the law, said the court in a statement.
We’re still waiting for Jew-lover evangelicals to explain how Christians were wrong about the Jews for nearly 2,000 years, and the first people to figure out that Christians should actually love the Jews were vulgar “charismatic” televangelist voodoo hucksters funded by Jews.
In November 1988, fifty years after Kristallnacht when Jewish property was set alight and destroyed in Nazi Germany, the church installed a bronze plaque under the relief remembering the six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust and an information board.
The Wittenberg stone carving is one of about two dozen similar sculptures from the Middle Ages that still feature on churches around Germany and elsewhere in Europe.
The Central Council of Jews said it understood the court’s decision but that, in its view, the floor plate and explanatory display did not go far enough and the church must acknowledge its guilt and condemn its centuries-long anti-Judaism.
Imagine the nerve of these Jews.
They say: “we demand you do exactly everything we tell you to do, and will not accept any single form of disagreement about anything. If you try to disagree with us, we will fight you until your doom.”
The carving will eventually come down. This ruling just means more money, and more threats.
Maybe they’ll send out Zelensky to demand it be taken down – he’s apparently the world’s most popular Jew.
Josef Schuster was born in Israel in the 50s, but moved to Germany in order to be oppressed