Understanding Jewish Hatred: To Jews We are the Amalekites

Diversity Macht Frei
30 de Setembre de 2017

Last week, the Huffington Post published an article that offers important insights into the Jewish mindset: What Jews can do to blot out the memory of White Supremacy.

Its author, Rabbi Joshua Stanton, begins with the usual claim that antisemitism has nothing to do with the actions of Jews (“a senseless hatred”) and a recitation of bogus antisemitism stats. We now know definitively that most of the incidents in these statistics were fake hate crime, much of it perpetrated by an Israeli Jew making phone calls and threats over the internet. Note that Jews are still citing them as authentic.

the rise in anti-Semitic incidents, with a spike of 34 percent in 2016 and 86 percent in the first quarter of 2017. Jew-hating vandals desecrated graveyards in Philadelphia and Upstate New York, and even our own great City saw swastikas on subway cars and in Adam Yauch Park. Nationally, we seem headed for 2,000 incidents of assault, harassment, and vandalism motivated by the senseless hatred of our people. The new faces of hate we saw this summer in Charlottesville, Virginia felt even more horrifying.

Here the Jew brings in the concept of the Amalekites. This is an important psychological tool Jews use to project and justify their hatred of the human race.

Amalek is seen as the eternal enemy of our people, whose members found strength by making us suffer. They first set upon us when we were most vulnerable. When the Israelites were at their weakest, having just escaped Egypt and without a clear source of water, Amalek attacked. They sought out those who could not defend themselves and were showing signs of dehydration and fatigue. The sick. The elderly. The children.

Amalek preyed on the vulnerable. Amalek pounced when our spirits were already falling, dashing our hopes for an easy journey to the Promised Land. Still worse, Amalek opened the floodgates to attacks by other groups.

After Amalek attacked, other nations realized that the Israelites were not invincible and that their miraculous escape from Egypt was a unique event. We could not create alliances once they made us seem like easy prey. Like the worst bully in the schoolyard, Amalek’s attack left us open to attack by lesser enemies.

Amalek hated the Israelites just for being Israelites. They did not care about justice or mercy or humanity; they had no regard for our lives or our hope for the future. They wanted to attack us just because they could.

The Torah calls us to enduring action against Amalek – but in an unusual way. We read in Deuteronomy 25:

Remember what Amalek did to you on your journey after you left Egypt – how, undeterred by fear of God, he surprised you on the march, when you were famished and weary, and cut down all the stragglers in your rear. Therefore, when the Lord your God grants you safety from all your enemies around you, in the land that the Lord your God is giving you as a hereditary portion, you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven. Do not forget!

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Now, facing today’s Amalek, we are reminded that the Torah calls us not just to escape Amalek, but to extirpate it. We are commanded to do real, literal battle against the Amalek we face in every generation. That means coming off the bench in the fight against white supremacy, putting our reputations and our money and our physical bodies on the line.

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When we see the legacy of Amalek playing out in our own time, we are obligated to speak out. We cannot hide behind platitudes or pass the burden to someone else. We have to look it in the face and name it, loudly enough for everyone to hear. We must demand that our elected officials do, too. The Torah does not allow us to equivocate, and we cannot allow others to equivocate either. Doing so tacitly condones hatred and normalizes unacceptable, threatening behaviors.

The Amalekites are mentioned briefly in a few passages of the Bible, some of which are quoted above. It is claimed they attacked the Jews (for no reason, of course) as they made their way out of Egypt towards the “Promised Land”. As ever when discussing what passes for Jewish history, it is important to inject some reality into the discussion. There is no evidence that the Amalekites ever existed at all. Nor, indeed, is there any evidence that there ever was an exodus of the Jews from Egypt. These are Jewish fables with little or no correspondence to factual truth. Nonetheless Jews continue to credit these ideas; and their behaviour continues to be influenced by them.

Even according to the fantastical parameters of the Biblical narrative, the Jews were invading another people’s land, which they claimed had been allotted to them by God. Hostile action against them by the Amalekites would therefore have been perfectly comprehensible in non-mystical terms.

The Bible records various battles between the Jews and the Amalekites, none of which resulted in their complete extirpation. Haman, the great antisemite of the Book of Esther, whose defeat is celebrated in the Purim festival, is said to have been a descendant of the Amalekites; and his death is claimed to represent the termination of their genetic lineage. As I wrote in a previous article (Purim is a celebration of lies and genocide), the Haman/Purim story has zero basis in historical fact. It is yet another in the long line of bizarre Jewish fables passed off as real history.

After the supposed extirpation of the physical Amalekites (even though they never existed), they lived on as metaphorical Jewish foemen.

In practice, anyone who opposes Jewish interests at any point of time or place becomes the “Amalekites”. And the Jews then invoke the Biblical and Talmudic commands to extirpate them and “blot out their memory”. Projecting the “Amalekite” identity onto the adversary of the day is how Jews justify their hatred and antagonistic action towards others.

Their obsession with genetic lineage even causes Jews to argue that these new Amalekites even somehow magically become the genetic descendants of the original Amalekites. Of course, to a western mind, this makes no sense. But here we are deep in the dark recesses of Oriental thought.

The Maharal of Prague Rabbi Judah Loew (d. 1609), considered all enemies of Israel throughout the generations of their Dispersion to be genealogical descendants of Amalek. Rabbi Chaim Soloveitchik of Brisk (d. 1918) declared that the commandment to destroy Amalek extends not merely to the genealogical descendants, but also to all who embrace the ideology of Amalek by trying to destroy Israel. This applies to the Arab nations seeking to destroy the people of Israel. According to Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik (d. 1993) in the name of his father, Rabbi Moshe Soloveitchik (d. 1941), the commandment with regard to Amalek is twofold: (1) the obligation of each individual Jew to destroy the genealogical descendants of Amalek, based on Deut. 25:19: “you shall erase the memory of Amalek,” and (2) the communal obligation of all Jews to defend the Jewish people against any enemy threatening its destruction, based on Exodus 17:16, which speaks of “the war of God against Amalek.” According to Shear Yashuv Cohen, the Chief Rabbi of Haifa, “Every nation that conspires to destroy the community of Israel becomes Amalek according to the halakhah … and Amalek exists even now after the mixing up of the nations.” Not only is Hitler accused by Jewish leaders of being Amalek, but so is Yassir Arafat and others; sometimes collectives of contemporary Palestinians, have likewise beenvilified as the seed of Amalek. “In each generation we have those who rise up to wipe us out; therefore each generation has its own Amalek. The Amalekism of our generation expresses itself in the extremely deep hatred of the Arabs to our national renaissance in the land of our forefathers.”

Source: Holy War in Judaism: The Fall and Rise of a Controversial Idea by Reuyen Firestone

Here are some examples from modern times of Jews claiming that the Brits, Germans, Iranians and Palestinians are Amalek.

Of course many other comparable examples could be produced.

Jews now claim that European ethnic advocacy groups are “Amalek”. But in a world where politics is defined by competing assertions of moral entitlement, no people can survive that is not allowed to advocate for its own interests. In effect, then, Jews have committed themselves to a project of extirpating and “blotting out” the existence, the lineage and even the memory of Europe’s peoples. The Huffington Post article would be better entitled: What Jews can do to blot out the existence of white people.