Diversity Macht Frei
January 2, 2018
I’ve been seeing a lot of photos of menorahs recently, often displayed in iconic locations – outside the White House, at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin and so on.
Was it my imagination or was there a note of almost malicious triumphalism in the way Jews were smugly welcoming the installation of these structures? To Jews, they seem to symbolise the subjugation of the goyim to Jewish power.
As I looked at the images, something else struck me: their similarity to minarets.
Within Islamic tradition, minarets are also symbols of triumph over the conquered kuffar.
The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Architecture says this about them.
Then I noticed the similarity between the words minaret and menorah and wondered whether they might have a shared etymological root.
It turns out that they do.
Just as minarets mark out the conquered territory of Islam, public menorahs symbolise the ascendancy and triumph of the Jews. The menorah lighting ceremonies and Hanukkah messages from western leaders are a kind of ritual of submission performed for the pleasure their masters.