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“It’s all a HOAX!!!1!1!” … Then why is it all in our face, everywhere?!
Discussing “anti-Semitism” and historical documentation.
Links
Headlines
‘Me Too’ Overturned [Redux]
- Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction overturned by New York appeals court | NBC News
- Harvey Weinstein Conviction Overturned by N.Y. Court of Appeals | The New York Times
[Not] Federal [Not] Reserve
- Federal Reserve holds rates steady. Here’s what that means for your money. | CBS News
- Fed keeps interest rates at 23-year high | NPR
- Federal Reserve holds interest rates at highest level since 2001 | Yahoo! Finance
‘Anti-Semitism’ So-Called
- House passes antisemitism bill with broad bipartisan support amid campus arrests | NBC News
- House passes bill aimed to combat antisemitism amid college unrest | NPR
‘Anti-Semitism’ Homework
- anti-Semitism | Etymology of anti-Semitism by etymonline
- Semitic | Etymology of the name Semitic by etymonline
- Semite | Etymology of Semite by etymonline
- Johann David Michaelis and the Colonial Imaginary: Orientalism and the Emergence of Racial Antisemitism in Eighteenth-Century Germany on JSTOR, by Jonathan M. Hess, New Series, Vol. 6, No. 2 (Winter, 2000), pp. 56-101 (46 pages)
- Orientalism [pdf], Hent De Vries (2005) Encyclopedia Of Religion, Second Edition, pp. 6881-6885
Göttingen school of history – Wikipedia
This group of historians played an important role in creating a scientific basis for historical research,and were also responsible for coining two fundamental groups of terminologies in scientific racism:
- Blumenbach and Meiners’s color terminology for race: Caucasian or white race; Mongolian or yellow race; Malayan or brown race; Negroid or black race; and American or red race;
- Gatterer, Schlözer and Eichhorn’s Biblical terminology for race: Semitic, Hamitic and Japhetic.
List of academics
- Johann David Michaelis (1717 – 1791), first chair of the department of Oriental Studies and Biblical Sciences
- Johann Christoph Gatterer (1727 – 1799)
- Christian Gottlob Heyne (1729 – 1812)
- August Ludwig von Schlözer (1735 – 1809)
- Christoph Meiners (1747 – 1810)
- Johann Gottfried Eichhorn (1752 – 1827), second chair of the department of Oriental Studies and Biblical Sciences
- Ludwig Timotheus Spittler (1752 – 1810)
- Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752 – 1840)
- Arnold Hermann Ludwig Heeren (1760 – 1842)
Orientalism (1978) by Edward W. Said
Orientalism is a 1978 book by Edward W. Said, in which the author establishes the term ”Orientalism” as a critical concept to describe the West’s commonly contemptuous depiction and portrayal of The East, i.e. the Orient. Societies and peoples of the Orient are those who inhabit the places of Asia, North Africa, and the Middle East. Said argues that Orientalism, in the sense of the Western scholarship about the Eastern World, is inextricably tied to the imperialist societies who produced it, which makes much Orientalist work inherently political and servile to power.
According to Said, in the Middle East, the social, economic, and cultural practices of the ruling Arab elites indicate they are imperial satraps who have internalized a romanticized version of Arab Culture created by French, British and later, American, Orientalists. Examples used in the book include critical analyses of the colonial literature of Joseph Conrad,[verification needed] which conflates a people, a time, and a place into one narrative of an incident and adventure in an exotic land.
The term Semitic in a racial sense was coined by members of the Göttingen school of history in the early 1770s. Other members of the Göttingen school of history coined the separate term Caucasian in the 1780s. These terms were used and developed by numerous other scholars over the next century. In the early 20th century, the pseudo-scientific classifications of Carleton S. Coon included the Semitic peoples in the Caucasian race, as similar in appearance to the Indo-European, Northwest Caucasian, and Kartvelian-speaking peoples. Due to the interweaving of language studies and cultural studies, the term also came to be applied to the religions (ancient Semitic and Abrahamic) and ethnicities of various cultures associated by geographic and linguistic distribution.
Due to the root word Semite, the term is prone to being invoked as a misnomer by those who incorrectly assert that it refers to racist hatred directed at ”Semitic people” in spite of the fact that this grouping is an obsolete historical race concept. Likewise, such usage is erroneous; the compound word antisemitismus was first us as a ”scientific-sounding term” for Judenhass (lit. ‘Jew-hatred’), and it has since been used to refer to anti-Jewish sentiment alone.
[…] According to Jonathan M. Hess, the term was originally used by its authors to “stress the radical difference between their own ‘antisemitism’ and earlier forms of antagonism toward Jews and Judaism.”
In 1879, German journalist Wilhelm Marr published a pamphlet, Der Sieg des Judenthums über das Germanenthum. Vom nicht confessionellen Standpunkt aus betrachtet (The Victory of the Jewish Spirit over the Germanic Spirit. Observed from a non-religious perspective) in which he used the word Semitismus interchangeably with the word Judentum to denote both “Jewry” (the Jews as a collective) and “Jewishness” (the quality of being Jewish, or the Jewish spirit).
This use of Semitismus was followed by a coining of ”Antisemitismus” which was used to indicate opposition to the Jews as a people and opposition to the Jewish spirit, which Marr interpreted as infiltrating German culture. His next pamphlet, Der Weg zum Siege des Germanenthums über das Judenthum (The Way to Victory of the Germanic Spirit over the Jewish Spirit, 1880), presents a development of Marr’s ideas further and may present the first published use of the German word Antisemitismus, “antisemitism”.
Friedrich Wilhelm Adolph Marr (November 16, 1819 – July 17, 1904) was a German journalist, Racial socialist and politician, who popularized the term ”antisemitism” (1881).
”Who is a Jew?” is a basic question about Jewish identity and considerations of Jewish self-identification.
‘Self-identification’ – Who Defines Terms…?
I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and [I know] the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but [are] the synagogue of Satan. – Revelation 2:9 KJV
Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee. – Revelation 3:9 KJV
The Thirteenth Tribe – Wikipedia
Koestler advances the thesis that Ashkenazi Jews are not descended from the historical Israelites of antiquity, but from Khazars, a Turkic people originating in and populating an empire north of and between the Black Sea and Caspian Sea. Koestler’s hypothesis is that the Khazars – who converted to Judaism in the 8th century – migrated westwards into current Eastern Europe (primarily Ukraine, Poland, Belarus, Lithuania, Hungary and Germany) in the 12th and 13th centuries when the Khazar Empire was collapsing.
At the end of the book’s last chapter, Koestler summarizes its content and his intentions as follows: “In Part One of this book I have attempted to trace the history of the Khazar Empire based on the scant existing sources. In Part Two, Chapters V-VII, I have compiled the historical evidence which indicates that the bulk of Eastern Jewry — and hence of world Jewry — is of Khazar-Turkish, rather than Semitic, origin. In the last chapter I have tried to show that the evidence from anthropology concurs with history in refuting the popular belief in a Jewish race descended from the biblical tribe.”
[…] In The Invention of the Jewish People, Shlomo Sand, historian of cinema, French intellectual history, and nationalism at Tel Aviv University, writes “while the Khazars scared off the Israeli historians, not one of whom has published a single paper on the subject, Koestler’s Thirteenth Tribe annoyed and provoked angry responses. Hebrew readers had no access to the book itself for many years, learning about it only through the venomous denunciations”. Writing in The Wall Street Journal, Chronicle of Higher Education editor Evan Goldstein states “Sand suggests that those who attacked Koestler’s book did so not because it lacked merit, but because the critics were cowards and ideologues. ‘No one wants to go looking under stones when venomous scorpions might be lurking beneath them, waiting to attack the self-image of the existing ethnos and its territorial ambitions.‘”
In the Arab world the theory espoused in Koestler’s book was adopted by persons who argued that if Ashkenazi Jews are primarily Khazar and not Semitic in origin, they would have no historical claim to Israel, nor would they be the subject of the Biblical promise of Canaan to the Israelites, thus undermining the theological basis of both Jewish religious Zionists and Christian Zionists. The Saudi Arabian delegate to the United Nations argued that Koestler’s theory “negated Israel’s right to exist”. Koestler did not see alleged Khazar ancestry as diminishing the claim of Jews to Israel, which he felt was based on the United Nations mandate and not on Biblical covenants or genetic inheritance. In his view, “[t]he problem of the Khazar infusion a thousand years ago… is irrelevant to modern Israel.”
World Revolutionary Movement (WRM)
“…the whole world problem has reached a crisis today and … its clarification will be the outstanding theme of all progress — educational, religious and economic — until 2025 A.D.”
“Thus a great and new movement is proceeding and a tremendously increased interplay and interaction is taking place. This will go on until A.D. 2025. During the years intervening between now and then very great changes will be seen taking place, and at the great General Assembly of the Hierarchy — held as usual every century — in 2025 the date in all probability will be set for the first stage of the externalisation of the Hierarchy. The present cycle (from now until that date) is called technically “The Stage of the Forerunner”.”
— The Externalization Of The Hierarchy (1957)
- Geordie Rose of Kindred AI presents Super-intelligent Aliens Are Coming to Earth – YouTube
- World Revolution: The Plot Against Civilization – Nesta Helen Webster – Google Books
Miscellany
- Charles Baudelaire – Wikiquote
- It’s a Wonderful Life – Wikipedia
- The Police – Wrapped Around Your Finger (Official Music Video) – YouTube
