WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.680 --> 00:00:11.800 A lot of the funds of last and any individual lots. 2 00:00:14.359 --> 00:00:21.440 This is the show. Oh right, everybody, welcome to your 3 00:00:21.440 --> 00:00:25.960 One Book Show on this Sunday, November ninth. I hope 4 00:00:25.960 --> 00:00:30.480 everybody is having a good weekend, and are you ready 5 00:00:30.519 --> 00:00:34.679 for another episode of you One Book Show? All right, Okay, 6 00:00:35.000 --> 00:00:37.479 We're gonna talk about anti Semitism today. That's the topic 7 00:00:37.520 --> 00:00:40.759 of the show. I figured we talked about a lot yesterday, 8 00:00:40.840 --> 00:00:43.280 and it's come up a number of different shows in 9 00:00:43.320 --> 00:00:46.280 the past few weeks. We might as well just wrap 10 00:00:46.320 --> 00:00:48.799 it all up with one show dedicated to this topic. 11 00:00:49.640 --> 00:00:54.679 I'll answer any questions about it, any issues, any anything 12 00:00:54.719 --> 00:00:58.960 else you have. We we can cover it all in 13 00:00:59.119 --> 00:01:02.479 one go. I'll cover some of the comments I got 14 00:01:02.600 --> 00:01:06.560 on Twitter for the various things I posted. We'll do 15 00:01:06.599 --> 00:01:09.280 the history, kind of try to define it. We'll talk 16 00:01:09.280 --> 00:01:12.480 about Zionism, anti Zionism. I mean, there's a lot to cover, 17 00:01:13.359 --> 00:01:15.760 a lot to cover in this one and but we'll 18 00:01:15.760 --> 00:01:18.760 try to kind of have this a definitive show from 19 00:01:18.799 --> 00:01:24.400 my perspective, at least with regard to with regard to Semitism, 20 00:01:24.680 --> 00:01:26.400 so that late I can refer people, Oh you want 21 00:01:26.400 --> 00:01:29.000 to hear my views on at Semmetism. Go watch that show. 22 00:01:29.040 --> 00:01:32.159 Although I fear, I fear that this is a topic 23 00:01:32.200 --> 00:01:33.640 that I'm gonna have to deal with over and over 24 00:01:33.640 --> 00:01:36.760 and over and over and again in the years, uh 25 00:01:36.799 --> 00:01:38.920 and and maybe decades to come. But it's certainly in 26 00:01:38.920 --> 00:01:42.560 the years to come. Decades. It's a long time anyway, 27 00:01:42.599 --> 00:01:46.920 the years to come. So this is a this is 28 00:01:46.959 --> 00:01:51.359 at least a one one, you know, an kind putting 29 00:01:51.359 --> 00:01:54.959 down with regards to this topic. But it is it 30 00:01:55.040 --> 00:01:56.239 is going to be sad that we're going to be 31 00:01:56.280 --> 00:02:01.280 talking about this for a long time. Uh. Let's see. 32 00:02:02.480 --> 00:02:05.640 Michaels already started us off with some super chats. He 33 00:02:05.680 --> 00:02:08.960 did promise that today I would achieve my goal easily 34 00:02:09.319 --> 00:02:13.919 because he has so many questions. So Michael's getting us started, 35 00:02:14.080 --> 00:02:16.800 and I expect him to fill up the screen with 36 00:02:16.840 --> 00:02:20.120 lots of questions. But you too can ask questions about anything. 37 00:02:20.919 --> 00:02:22.439 It would be great if we got a bunch of 38 00:02:22.520 --> 00:02:27.080 questions related to this. But as you know, I take 39 00:02:27.159 --> 00:02:32.919 questions on everything and anything. They get answered in the 40 00:02:32.960 --> 00:02:36.319 first based on how much money you put up. That 41 00:02:36.520 --> 00:02:40.960 is the above twenty dollars. Questions get ranked based on 42 00:02:41.000 --> 00:02:43.280 the amount of money and then answered, and all the 43 00:02:43.360 --> 00:02:46.560 under twenty dollars basically get answered in the order in 44 00:02:46.639 --> 00:02:52.800 which they are asked, So don't worry. I answer all 45 00:02:52.800 --> 00:02:56.840 the questions. I respond to everything. I read out all 46 00:02:56.879 --> 00:02:59.319 the comments. If you want to insult me, one way 47 00:02:59.400 --> 00:03:02.000 to get me to read out your insult is to 48 00:03:02.039 --> 00:03:06.719 put it into super Chat. Also, I wanted to just 49 00:03:06.759 --> 00:03:10.560 remind you show tomorrow, probably in the evening, and then 50 00:03:12.319 --> 00:03:17.240 Tuesday from California, and then no show Wednday, Thursday, and 51 00:03:17.280 --> 00:03:21.800 hopefully a show Friday from Colorado. Uh, and then no 52 00:03:21.879 --> 00:03:25.080 show Saturday Sunday a week from today, a show back 53 00:03:25.120 --> 00:03:38.319 from home. All right, you know, Uh, I just got 54 00:03:38.319 --> 00:03:40.680 to comment on Twitter that's just too funny to ignore. 55 00:03:41.560 --> 00:03:44.520 So let me just say. I said something about that, 56 00:03:45.120 --> 00:03:48.039 you know, a video of talking talking about the demons 57 00:03:48.039 --> 00:03:51.080 scratching him and stuff, and I said, this guy's nuts 58 00:03:51.840 --> 00:03:55.360 and crazy. And this is the response I got. Demons 59 00:03:55.439 --> 00:03:59.319 are and were accepted by just about every culture throughout history, 60 00:03:59.759 --> 00:04:03.680 and decent people tend to avoid the personal attacks, whereas 61 00:04:03.719 --> 00:04:08.199 warmongers and israel worshippers seem to thrive on them. All right, 62 00:04:09.199 --> 00:04:13.439 you know, demons are not accepted by any culture of reason. 63 00:04:13.919 --> 00:04:16.639 A culture of reason rejects demons and thinks that people 64 00:04:16.680 --> 00:04:21.120 who believe in demons are little nuts, and particularly if 65 00:04:21.120 --> 00:04:23.399 they live in the twenty first century, which is a 66 00:04:23.439 --> 00:04:27.079 century built on a foundation of an age of reason 67 00:04:27.160 --> 00:04:31.720 called the Enlightenment, where demons were not taken seriously, and 68 00:04:31.879 --> 00:04:34.560 the idea that in the twenty first century in America, 69 00:04:34.800 --> 00:04:36.959 in spite of all the secularization, in spite of all 70 00:04:36.959 --> 00:04:39.279 the reason, in spite of all the science, in spite 71 00:04:39.279 --> 00:04:43.399 of everything else, anybody who claims to be attacked by 72 00:04:43.439 --> 00:04:47.160 demons and didn't document, they didn't take pictures of the scratches, 73 00:04:47.839 --> 00:04:50.560 and admit to having four dogs in the bed with 74 00:04:50.600 --> 00:04:53.319 them at the time has to be called a kook. 75 00:04:53.439 --> 00:04:55.720 And that's exactly what they are. And anybody who defends 76 00:04:56.519 --> 00:05:01.839 demons and the existence of demons and the the presence 77 00:05:01.879 --> 00:05:04.399 of demons in our lives and the ability of demons 78 00:05:04.399 --> 00:05:06.240 to attack you during your sleep even though you got 79 00:05:06.279 --> 00:05:12.000 four dogs protecting you, is another kook. And personal attacks. 80 00:05:12.720 --> 00:05:15.319 This is not a personal attack. It's a personal evaluation. 81 00:05:15.560 --> 00:05:20.560 It is a moral I don't know, a state of 82 00:05:20.600 --> 00:05:24.759 mind evaluation of me, you know, in my view, Tucker Calson, 83 00:05:24.839 --> 00:05:27.560 for a variety of reasons, is a coke, is a nutcase. 84 00:05:28.000 --> 00:05:33.000 He's lost contact with reality, He's lost contact with any 85 00:05:33.079 --> 00:05:38.720 kind of truth. He is in the category of nutty. 86 00:05:39.800 --> 00:05:44.920 Above and beyond his immorality and his immorality and his 87 00:05:46.319 --> 00:05:50.839 advocacy for many evil ideas. The guy's just nuts. He's 88 00:05:50.879 --> 00:05:54.879 just crazy. And you want to take the craziness seriously, 89 00:05:55.319 --> 00:05:59.360 go for it, embrace it, you know, go all out. 90 00:05:59.399 --> 00:06:03.040 But I I do attack people personally when they are 91 00:06:03.160 --> 00:06:06.600 or not attack. I evaluate people personally, and if they 92 00:06:06.639 --> 00:06:10.199 behave like kooks, I call them kooks. If they advocate 93 00:06:10.199 --> 00:06:14.199 for evil more evil ideas, I call them evil, particularly 94 00:06:14.240 --> 00:06:17.040 if they're adults, and there's reason to believe that those 95 00:06:17.519 --> 00:06:19.600 they should know better than the evil ideas that they hold. 96 00:06:20.120 --> 00:06:23.759 I believe in moral evaluation and generally evaluating people, and 97 00:06:23.800 --> 00:06:26.879 I will make those evaluations public to the extent that 98 00:06:26.920 --> 00:06:30.279 they are public figures. If they're a private figure, there's 99 00:06:30.319 --> 00:06:32.279 a kook who's my neighbor, I'm not going to make 100 00:06:32.279 --> 00:06:36.560 it public. But they're out there telling stories about demons 101 00:06:36.560 --> 00:06:40.439 scratching themselves, then they're begging to be called a nut. 102 00:06:40.639 --> 00:06:43.240 And with all due respect, to all of you who 103 00:06:43.279 --> 00:06:46.319 love Tucker Causon and view him as a demigogue. Tucker 104 00:06:46.399 --> 00:06:52.920 Causon is nuts. All right, Let's talk about another nutty 105 00:06:52.959 --> 00:06:55.199 set of ideas, and that set of ideas is an 106 00:06:55.160 --> 00:06:59.759 anti semitism. Anti Semitism is, of course a pretty agent 107 00:07:00.079 --> 00:07:03.600 of ideas. It's uh uh, it is not new. We'll 108 00:07:03.639 --> 00:07:06.160 talk about the history of it. We'll go back to 109 00:07:06.199 --> 00:07:08.839 where it started. This, of course, will not be a comprehensive, 110 00:07:08.920 --> 00:07:17.160 thorough uh you know, thorough analysis of of antisemitism. That 111 00:07:17.199 --> 00:07:20.839 would take a massive book. And I do intend to 112 00:07:20.879 --> 00:07:23.439 do some work on this. I presented as a lecture 113 00:07:23.480 --> 00:07:25.920 and things like that, but for now, this is this 114 00:07:26.000 --> 00:07:29.600 is going to be my take on the phenomena. So 115 00:07:29.680 --> 00:07:32.759 first let's let's talk about what it is. Uh, what 116 00:07:33.000 --> 00:07:44.199 is anti Semitism? I mean, here's a definition. Antisemenis is hatred, uh, discrimination, prejudice, 117 00:07:44.240 --> 00:07:51.279 hostility of violence against Jews as Jews. It includes, it 118 00:07:51.360 --> 00:07:55.319 includes the belief in a whole variety of conspiracy theories 119 00:07:55.959 --> 00:08:04.680 that view Jews somehow, you know, having extraordinary power over 120 00:08:05.199 --> 00:08:11.800 people's lives and over over over the world in which 121 00:08:12.040 --> 00:08:17.560 we live. Now, part of the question is and and 122 00:08:17.839 --> 00:08:21.160 I think an important part is who Jews, what our Jews? 123 00:08:21.199 --> 00:08:25.079 What is your what is this refer to? What is 124 00:08:25.199 --> 00:08:28.879 jew refer to? And I think it refers to a 125 00:08:28.920 --> 00:08:32.200 few things, and it doesn't refer to these as a 126 00:08:32.240 --> 00:08:35.600 separate but all is one, Bob. If you have questions, 127 00:08:35.639 --> 00:08:38.240 the super chat is available, happy to answer all of 128 00:08:38.279 --> 00:08:43.879 your questions. Do you refers to the religion, It refers 129 00:08:43.960 --> 00:08:48.679 to a culture, It refers to a particular ethnic group, 130 00:08:49.240 --> 00:08:53.159 and it refers to a perception of the existence of 131 00:08:53.200 --> 00:08:57.879 a nation and a Jewish a nation. Jew refers to 132 00:08:58.519 --> 00:09:02.240 all of those in and members who belong to any 133 00:09:02.279 --> 00:09:05.360 one of those people who practice the religion, people who 134 00:09:05.399 --> 00:09:09.879 have a and it reforms to you know, genes, to 135 00:09:10.679 --> 00:09:17.519 a genetic heritage, whether you know people. People refer to 136 00:09:17.600 --> 00:09:20.960 other people as Jewish even when Jews don't refer to 137 00:09:21.000 --> 00:09:24.279 them as Jewish. For example, according to Judaism, you can 138 00:09:24.320 --> 00:09:27.120 only be a Jew unless you conferred. But it can 139 00:09:27.200 --> 00:09:28.879 only be a Jew if your mother was Jewish. If 140 00:09:28.919 --> 00:09:31.879 your father's Jewish and your mother's not Jewish, you're not Jewish. 141 00:09:31.960 --> 00:09:36.279 And yet again, I think people refer to the Jews 142 00:09:38.320 --> 00:09:42.039 if anybody related to them was Jewish at some point. 143 00:09:43.879 --> 00:09:47.440 And here's the important part about jew in the context 144 00:09:47.440 --> 00:09:49.960 of anti Semitism. I mean a lot of people refer 145 00:09:50.080 --> 00:09:55.600 to themselves as Jewish because they are religious, or because 146 00:09:55.919 --> 00:09:59.720 they view themselves as part of a nation that they 147 00:09:59.759 --> 00:10:02.559 define and is Jewish, which is pretty amorphous, or because 148 00:10:03.080 --> 00:10:08.840 they are collectivists and view themselves as somehow belonging to 149 00:10:08.919 --> 00:10:12.799 other people through some kind of genetic genic relationship. I 150 00:10:12.840 --> 00:10:17.559 don't consider myself a Jew in day to day life. 151 00:10:17.960 --> 00:10:21.279 You know, it has no relevance to me. I'm not religious. 152 00:10:22.519 --> 00:10:28.360 I'm not religious. I'm an atheist it culturally, you know. 153 00:10:28.399 --> 00:10:32.320 I'm sure the Jewish culture had an impact on me 154 00:10:32.639 --> 00:10:38.919 and my life, but you know, I've chosen a different culture. 155 00:10:39.639 --> 00:10:42.919 Most of my friends today are not Jewish. The culture 156 00:10:42.919 --> 00:10:47.720 in which I live is not a Jewish culture. Genetically, 157 00:10:47.879 --> 00:10:50.159 I'm certainly a Jew, but I don't know what that means. 158 00:10:50.240 --> 00:10:54.080 That means nothing. You're not. Who you are is not 159 00:10:54.120 --> 00:10:56.240 your genes. Who you are what you make of yourself. 160 00:10:56.600 --> 00:11:00.480 It's the choices you make in your life. So in 161 00:11:00.519 --> 00:11:04.000 that sense, I don't consider myself Jewish. I don't celebrate 162 00:11:04.080 --> 00:11:08.159 any of the Jewish holidays, so that's religion. Now culture 163 00:11:08.240 --> 00:11:12.559 is out. I just don't think of myself as belonging 164 00:11:12.759 --> 00:11:17.120 to to I don't believe in race. I don't believe 165 00:11:17.120 --> 00:11:22.080 in the concept of race, and even even the concept 166 00:11:22.120 --> 00:11:29.240 of you know, ethnicity is kind of an antichotist What 167 00:11:29.240 --> 00:11:33.200 does it actually mean, particularly if you detach it from 168 00:11:35.440 --> 00:11:38.320 particularly if you detach it from the issue of race. 169 00:11:38.720 --> 00:11:43.799 So you know, to me, I am not a Jew, 170 00:11:44.039 --> 00:11:51.440 except that the anti Semites, those who hate Jews, clearly 171 00:11:51.480 --> 00:11:56.399 define me as such. That as I know that when 172 00:11:56.440 --> 00:12:00.159 they start rolling up the Jews, however they want to 173 00:12:00.200 --> 00:12:03.600 define it, I will be one of the people being 174 00:12:03.639 --> 00:12:09.919 rounded up. When people express anti Semitic views, they are 175 00:12:09.960 --> 00:12:14.519 pointing their finger at me. My own views about at 176 00:12:15.000 --> 00:12:20.480 about Judaism or being Jewish are irrelevant to the very 177 00:12:20.519 --> 00:12:24.639 fact that the anti Semite has his own definition of 178 00:12:24.639 --> 00:12:27.759 who a Jew is. I mean, Hitler, what was it 179 00:12:28.240 --> 00:12:32.440 two generations? If you had anybody, any of your grandparents 180 00:12:32.840 --> 00:12:36.200 was Jewish, you are jew. It didn't matter whether you 181 00:12:36.240 --> 00:12:40.200 considered yourself one or not. And one of the things 182 00:12:40.200 --> 00:12:44.879 that led Hrzel, the founder of a designist movement, to 183 00:12:46.000 --> 00:12:50.480 found designist movement is the realization that the haters, the 184 00:12:50.480 --> 00:12:55.320 haters of the Jew, the anti Semites would never let 185 00:12:55.399 --> 00:13:00.480 Jews assimilate. He was a completely assimilated Jew, didn't consider 186 00:13:00.519 --> 00:13:04.679 himself a Jew until he faced the Dreyfus trial and 187 00:13:04.799 --> 00:13:09.480 realized that as assimilated as you get, the anti Semites 188 00:13:11.960 --> 00:13:19.200 will always, always, always view you as a Jew. Bob 189 00:13:19.240 --> 00:13:23.120 doesn't like Jews, but he also says, we don't like 190 00:13:23.200 --> 00:13:25.559 libertarians either. Well that's good because I'm not a libertarian. 191 00:13:25.679 --> 00:13:29.000 So there we go. I'm not Jewish and I'm not libertarians. 192 00:13:29.039 --> 00:13:30.799 You love me, now, Bob? Do you like me? 193 00:13:30.879 --> 00:13:31.080 Now? 194 00:13:32.559 --> 00:13:36.120 The haters have come. At least, you know, Bob represents them. 195 00:13:36.120 --> 00:13:40.080 I don't know how many else they are available, all right, 196 00:13:40.200 --> 00:13:47.840 So so, anti Semitism is a hatred, discrimination, prejudice, stility, 197 00:13:47.919 --> 00:13:53.919 violence against Jews. It is the the advocacy and the 198 00:13:54.399 --> 00:14:02.519 embrace of conspiracy theories related to to the Jews, and 199 00:14:02.559 --> 00:14:07.360 we'll talk about those. It is it is characterized by, uh, 200 00:14:08.200 --> 00:14:13.600 you know, by by stories of primarily of Jews doing 201 00:14:13.639 --> 00:14:18.399 horvable things that then justify the hatred, prejudiced and violence 202 00:14:18.399 --> 00:14:23.720 against them. Right, if if Jews are really you know, killers, 203 00:14:23.759 --> 00:14:26.759 if Jews really do I don't know, drink the blood 204 00:14:26.799 --> 00:14:31.919 of whatever, then violence against them is justified. Right. So, uh, 205 00:14:32.639 --> 00:14:38.279 Anti Semitism not only has this hatred and violence and prejudice, 206 00:14:38.440 --> 00:14:42.120 but it also builds up the stories. It builds up 207 00:14:42.159 --> 00:14:47.080 the theories, it builds up the justification for that violence. 208 00:14:47.080 --> 00:14:52.279 And I think you can only understand the stories about Israel, 209 00:14:52.679 --> 00:14:56.600 the lying about Israel, the the constant lies about Israel 210 00:14:56.759 --> 00:15:02.399 in the context of they need to constantly rationalize the hatred. 211 00:15:02.840 --> 00:15:09.840 They need to constantly justify the hatred, they prejudice. And 212 00:15:10.039 --> 00:15:13.679 ultimately what they want is that the violence against the 213 00:15:13.759 --> 00:15:17.399 Jew and and they will they will, they won't make 214 00:15:17.480 --> 00:15:23.240 up stories. Uh. You know, blood libels go back to 215 00:15:23.679 --> 00:15:27.080 the very early you know, Christianity and and really to 216 00:15:27.120 --> 00:15:29.360 the beginning of Christianity. We'll get to the original blood 217 00:15:29.440 --> 00:15:32.159 libel in a minute. But blood libel, the idea that 218 00:15:32.279 --> 00:15:35.399 Jews kill this, do that you know, they're responsible for 219 00:15:35.559 --> 00:15:40.200 blood that that kind of blood libel is always used 220 00:15:40.279 --> 00:15:44.320 as justification. Let's go slaughter the Jews, Let's go kill 221 00:15:44.360 --> 00:15:47.519 the Jews, let's discriminate against the Jews. Let's so you 222 00:15:47.919 --> 00:15:52.159 need a story. You know, they control the world, they 223 00:15:52.159 --> 00:15:55.279 make money off of exploiting Christians, they make money off 224 00:15:55.279 --> 00:16:01.039 of off of useless interest or whatever. You know, all 225 00:16:01.080 --> 00:16:05.320 of this is uh is the case Cook says, blood 226 00:16:05.320 --> 00:16:08.519 libel is starting in England. No, it didn't actually starts 227 00:16:08.799 --> 00:16:11.399 way before that. If if we understand what blood libel 228 00:16:11.440 --> 00:16:15.720 really is, we'll see that it starts really way before that. 229 00:16:16.000 --> 00:16:21.720 So you know, this is the this is the essence 230 00:16:21.759 --> 00:16:28.360 of of of of antisemitism. It's the the the the 231 00:16:28.399 --> 00:16:33.279 hatred that is then justified by conspiracy theories and and 232 00:16:33.279 --> 00:16:37.440 and look, the the original conspiracy theory and the original 233 00:16:37.440 --> 00:16:42.240 blood libel, the original conspiracy and the original blood libel, 234 00:16:42.279 --> 00:16:46.360 and the justification uh for much of the hatred of 235 00:16:46.440 --> 00:16:49.480 Jews and discrimination against them and the violence against them 236 00:16:50.200 --> 00:16:54.240 by Christians in the uh you know period of the 237 00:16:54.240 --> 00:16:57.039 early Church all the way through the Middle Ages and 238 00:16:57.240 --> 00:17:01.960 through the Crusades, is the conspiracy and the blood libel 239 00:17:02.000 --> 00:17:06.039 that the Jews, the Jews, not age you, not a 240 00:17:06.079 --> 00:17:09.960 group of Jews, but the Jews were responsible for the 241 00:17:10.000 --> 00:17:14.440 death of Christ. That is the idea that Jesus was 242 00:17:14.519 --> 00:17:23.640 killed by the Jew. That is that the theologically you 243 00:17:23.759 --> 00:17:29.079 blame Jesus's death on the Jew becomes really the first 244 00:17:29.119 --> 00:17:33.200 blood libel and becomes the first great conspiracy theory that 245 00:17:33.400 --> 00:17:39.000 justifies hatred. I mean, if if Jesus was the Messiah 246 00:17:39.119 --> 00:17:43.759 and Jesus was the superhero in Jordan Peterson's terms, and 247 00:17:43.880 --> 00:17:48.119 Jesus was God's son, whatever the hell that means, and 248 00:17:48.160 --> 00:17:51.920 God himself, whatever the hell that means, and the Jews 249 00:17:52.000 --> 00:17:56.759 killed him, well that's bad. And remember that he was crustified, 250 00:17:57.200 --> 00:18:02.559 so it wasn't just any death. It was a particularly brutal, horrible, painful, 251 00:18:03.200 --> 00:18:24.279 excruciating death. And the Jews are responsible. So this is 252 00:18:24.319 --> 00:18:27.920 really where it starts. Now. You could argue that there's 253 00:18:27.960 --> 00:18:32.920 certain passages in the New Testament that already are suggestive 254 00:18:33.119 --> 00:18:37.440 of kind of a very negative attitude towards Jews, and 255 00:18:38.000 --> 00:18:48.519 certainly it's the way it's been interpreated. It's certainly the way. 256 00:18:49.480 --> 00:18:55.440 It's certainly the way it's been interpreated. And whether I'm 257 00:18:55.480 --> 00:18:58.039 sure there are other interpretations that are not anti Semitic, 258 00:18:58.160 --> 00:19:02.799 but certainly certain elements than the Church have used these interpretations. 259 00:19:02.839 --> 00:19:06.160 For example, in John eight forty four, you are your 260 00:19:06.200 --> 00:19:08.759 father the devil, which has been interportal to me and 261 00:19:08.839 --> 00:19:12.519 Jews were collectively guilty for rejecting and killing Christ, and 262 00:19:12.920 --> 00:19:15.160 they are basically the devil, and they were created by 263 00:19:15.200 --> 00:19:19.799 the devil, and they are the devil. But really, and 264 00:19:20.000 --> 00:19:26.200 I you know, anti Semitism really takes off with certain 265 00:19:26.240 --> 00:19:31.440 figures in the early Church, and then we'll see it 266 00:19:31.440 --> 00:19:35.119 gets institutionalized in the Middle Ages and just thrives in there. 267 00:19:35.160 --> 00:19:37.400 So we're going to just go, I'm going to read 268 00:19:37.440 --> 00:19:40.680 you some passages just to give your sets of the 269 00:19:40.720 --> 00:19:45.279 extent of which Christians, early Christians at least some leading 270 00:19:45.359 --> 00:19:47.480 figures among early Christians. I do not want to say 271 00:19:47.480 --> 00:19:50.680 that all early Christians believe this, but certain figures among 272 00:19:50.720 --> 00:20:01.240 early Christianity were you know, you know, viewed, viewed, uh, 273 00:20:01.599 --> 00:20:08.759 viewed Jesus, sorry, viewed the Jews as really horrific, really evil, 274 00:20:08.880 --> 00:20:12.119 really bad, and that the source of that was the 275 00:20:12.160 --> 00:20:14.119 fact that they were responsible for the death. And and 276 00:20:14.160 --> 00:20:17.920 again let me note it's I've noted this in other contexts. 277 00:20:18.559 --> 00:20:23.480 But what they do is they they they shift right, 278 00:20:23.519 --> 00:20:29.079 because we know who was responsible for you know, jesus death, 279 00:20:29.119 --> 00:20:35.240 and that was the Roman, the Roman Empire, Roman authorities. 280 00:20:36.440 --> 00:20:41.400 But it very quickly, certainly from you know, the rise 281 00:20:41.519 --> 00:20:51.599 of Constantine on, it becomes very politically not very good, 282 00:20:52.680 --> 00:20:57.039 very politically bad to blame the Roman Empire because Rome 283 00:20:57.119 --> 00:21:02.839 now becomes Christian are the good guys. The Romans are 284 00:21:02.839 --> 00:21:06.079 the ones spending Christianity all over Europe. She can't blame 285 00:21:06.440 --> 00:21:10.680 Rome for for this attack on h on on on Jesus. 286 00:21:10.920 --> 00:21:14.200 You've got to find somebody else. Uh. And he's right 287 00:21:14.200 --> 00:21:16.759 there and and he's like, you know, the Jews identified 288 00:21:16.839 --> 00:21:19.079 very early on as the killers of Christ. So it's 289 00:21:19.119 --> 00:21:29.559 easy to do. It's easy to do. Mh. I mean, 290 00:21:29.599 --> 00:21:35.440 I just before we do this, before we uh talk 291 00:21:35.480 --> 00:21:38.960 about some of the early Christian commentators, let me let 292 00:21:38.960 --> 00:21:43.400 me one more point I want to make, and that 293 00:21:43.599 --> 00:21:51.160 is that people have said people have in a comment 294 00:21:51.160 --> 00:21:53.880 section keep saying to me, no, no, Christians didn't invent 295 00:21:54.480 --> 00:21:57.920 anti Semitism. Anti Semitism existed before that. Lots of people 296 00:21:57.960 --> 00:22:03.880 hated the Jews. For example, the the Egyptians enslaved the Jews. 297 00:22:05.279 --> 00:22:08.119 That's the beginning of anti Semitism. But that's silly, right, 298 00:22:08.599 --> 00:22:12.920 I mean, the Egyptians enslaved the Jews, They enslaved lots 299 00:22:12.920 --> 00:22:15.119 of different people. They did enslave the Jews because they 300 00:22:15.119 --> 00:22:18.559 would Jews. They enslaved the Jews because they were foreigners 301 00:22:19.559 --> 00:22:22.519 who came to Egypt and didn't have a home, and 302 00:22:22.559 --> 00:22:25.079 it was easy to enslave them. It was more politics 303 00:22:25.160 --> 00:22:30.559 geopolitics of the time, right. Jews were people without really 304 00:22:30.559 --> 00:22:34.519 a home at that point, and the Egyptians just used 305 00:22:34.519 --> 00:22:37.559 opportunity to enslave them, and people w enslaved all over 306 00:22:37.559 --> 00:22:39.279 the Middle East at that point in time. Slavey was 307 00:22:39.319 --> 00:22:41.839 just part of life. It was even Jews had slaves 308 00:22:42.119 --> 00:22:45.440 later on in the Old Testament, so you know, and 309 00:22:45.480 --> 00:22:48.559 people fought wars, and people hated each other, but it 310 00:22:48.599 --> 00:22:53.200 wasn't there wasn't a theme here. We hate Jews, quad Jews, 311 00:22:53.400 --> 00:22:56.079 you know, we hate those people because we'd like to 312 00:22:56.119 --> 00:22:59.279 pillage and take their stuff and we'd like to conquer 313 00:22:59.319 --> 00:23:02.279 their land. That is not the same as antisemitism. Not 314 00:23:02.359 --> 00:23:12.240 the same as antisemitism. So that is so I do 315 00:23:12.319 --> 00:23:14.440 consider the beginning of anti Semitism really, the beginning of 316 00:23:14.440 --> 00:23:20.880 anti Semitism really the first Christians to articulate the case 317 00:23:21.359 --> 00:23:24.559 for hatred of Jews, and then Christianity dominates the West 318 00:23:24.599 --> 00:23:29.920 and it becomes the fountain head of all anti Semitism, 319 00:23:30.240 --> 00:23:35.480 secular and religious, including much of Muslim anti Semitism, you know, 320 00:23:35.519 --> 00:23:39.119 probably to large extent, originates, particularly the modern form of it, 321 00:23:39.119 --> 00:23:46.680 originates with Christianity. So you know, justin the matter one 322 00:23:46.759 --> 00:23:50.599 hundred and fifty five, see in the Common Era, in 323 00:23:50.640 --> 00:23:56.359 a dialogue says, the tribulations were justly imposed on you, Jews, 324 00:23:56.920 --> 00:24:00.279 for you have slain the just one, Jesus, and there's 325 00:24:00.279 --> 00:24:04.279 prophets before him, and now you reject those who hope 326 00:24:04.319 --> 00:24:09.720 in him. See here's the basic Christian claim. Jews killed 327 00:24:09.880 --> 00:24:16.480 Jesus again collective guilt. Even if now all those disciples 328 00:24:16.480 --> 00:24:19.079 would Jews, he was a Jew, many of his disciples 329 00:24:19.119 --> 00:24:22.359 would Jews. I mean everybody or most people in that 330 00:24:22.440 --> 00:24:26.240 part of the world at the time would Jewish. But 331 00:24:26.640 --> 00:24:31.119 it's collective guilt. It's all Jews killed Jesus. Even Jews 332 00:24:31.519 --> 00:24:35.480 that come generations after Jesus was killed, killed Jesus or 333 00:24:35.839 --> 00:24:41.079 share the blame in the killing of Jesus. But here's 334 00:24:40.799 --> 00:24:47.599 the more subtle reason why they hated Jews at the 335 00:24:47.640 --> 00:24:53.559 time of Jesus and then repeatedly over the decades, centuries, 336 00:24:53.799 --> 00:25:00.839 really millennia, a couple of millennia, Jews have had opportunity 337 00:25:00.880 --> 00:25:07.160 to see the light Jesus was among them. Christians surround them. 338 00:25:07.839 --> 00:25:10.079 They could convert to Christianity at any point in time. 339 00:25:12.720 --> 00:25:15.359 They can become Christians, and the Christians will embrace them 340 00:25:15.400 --> 00:25:17.400 if they become Christians, at least up to a point, 341 00:25:18.119 --> 00:25:21.000 you know, as the Inquisition in Spain showed, not completely, 342 00:25:21.599 --> 00:25:24.680 but they claimed that they would embrace them. And yet 343 00:25:24.720 --> 00:25:32.359 the Jews resist or resistead. They didn't embrace Christianity. You 344 00:25:32.440 --> 00:25:37.519 reject those who hope in Him. They don't become Christian 345 00:25:39.079 --> 00:25:43.039 And that's what really makes them evil. That's what really 346 00:25:43.160 --> 00:25:48.440 justifies discrimination and hatred and sometimes violence against them. It's 347 00:25:48.480 --> 00:25:56.240 the not willing to recognize Jesus as the Messiah, the 348 00:25:56.279 --> 00:26:01.599 responsible for his death, collective guilt over millennia, and they 349 00:26:01.640 --> 00:26:11.240 won't convert to Christianity or they won't become Christians. John Chu, 350 00:26:12.000 --> 00:26:18.480 I can't pronounce his name, hy Suwstom three eighty six. 351 00:26:21.200 --> 00:26:24.279 I mean he was he was particularly vicious. This guy 352 00:26:24.440 --> 00:26:28.880 was really hated Jews. Again, one of the fathers of 353 00:26:28.920 --> 00:26:30.880 the Church, one of the early great thinkers of the church. 354 00:26:32.200 --> 00:26:36.279 He did eight homilies delivered in an Antioch, among the 355 00:26:36.279 --> 00:26:39.920 most explicitly antisemitic. There was a lot of antisemitism there. 356 00:26:39.960 --> 00:26:45.319 But among the most explicit antisemitic Semitic works is this one, 357 00:26:45.720 --> 00:26:49.319 I mean, the whole thing is is probably, if not 358 00:26:49.400 --> 00:26:52.240 the most one of the most anti semitic works produced 359 00:26:52.240 --> 00:26:55.880 by a Christian. The synagogue is worse than a brothel. 360 00:26:57.079 --> 00:26:59.920 It is the dan of scoundrels and the repair of 361 00:27:00.079 --> 00:27:04.759 wild beasts, a place of meeting for the assassins of Christ. 362 00:27:04.960 --> 00:27:09.279 There it is again assassins of Christ right through the generations. 363 00:27:09.680 --> 00:27:15.680 Every generation is responsible for. Again, I hate the synagogue 364 00:27:15.759 --> 00:27:19.480 precisely because it has the law and the prophets. It 365 00:27:19.599 --> 00:27:24.839 is the dwelling of demons. Remember demons. Hmm, Maybe it 366 00:27:24.880 --> 00:27:42.440 was Jews that scratched, that scratched the taker cows. Maybe 367 00:27:42.480 --> 00:27:47.279 maybe it was them. Sir John was particularly bad, particularly bad. 368 00:27:47.319 --> 00:27:48.960 You can read, I mean, you can find lots of 369 00:27:49.000 --> 00:27:52.319 other stuff. Let me see you once again, I had 370 00:27:52.519 --> 00:27:58.759 head here. I mean ce this is Saint Ambos. Saint 371 00:27:58.759 --> 00:28:00.640 Ambos is considered one of the great thing is of 372 00:28:00.680 --> 00:28:05.480 really Christianity. I mean, he was the Bishop of Milan. 373 00:28:06.480 --> 00:28:10.279 He was the bishop to the Emperor who was in Rome, 374 00:28:10.680 --> 00:28:13.920 but the Empire often was ruled out of Milan, so 375 00:28:14.039 --> 00:28:16.559 he was the most influential, one of the most influential 376 00:28:18.279 --> 00:28:26.119 you know, Christians, theologians, leaders of his time. And you 377 00:28:26.160 --> 00:28:30.880 know he wrote extensively. Is again considered one of the 378 00:28:30.920 --> 00:28:34.440 fathers of the Church. And and here here is this 379 00:28:34.519 --> 00:28:37.480 quote about Jews. Right, this is this is sorry he 380 00:28:37.519 --> 00:28:40.039 was born in three forty this is three seventy nine, 381 00:28:40.519 --> 00:28:43.200 so this is all the first century. Remember this is 382 00:28:45.240 --> 00:28:50.480 this is after Christianity has now become the religion of 383 00:28:50.799 --> 00:28:59.599 the Roman Empire. Bob, I don't have a bronxy accident 384 00:29:00.079 --> 00:29:02.960 than the bunks never lived anywhere near the bunks quote. 385 00:29:03.319 --> 00:29:05.200 I mean, he's such a Bobby, is such an idiot? 386 00:29:06.000 --> 00:29:09.960 Quote the most worthless of all men. That's Jews. They 387 00:29:09.960 --> 00:29:16.559 are lecherous, greedy, raptures. They are perfidious murderers of Christ. 388 00:29:16.920 --> 00:29:20.279 They worship the devil, their religion as a sickness. The 389 00:29:20.400 --> 00:29:24.319 Jews of the odious assassins of Christ and for killing God. 390 00:29:24.680 --> 00:29:31.079 There is no expiation possible, no indulgence or pardon. Christians 391 00:29:31.519 --> 00:29:35.160 may never cease vengeance, and that you must live in 392 00:29:35.279 --> 00:29:41.279 servitude forever. God always hated the Jews. It is essential 393 00:29:41.640 --> 00:29:48.440 that all Christians hate them. Whoa I mean, it doesn't 394 00:29:48.440 --> 00:29:51.920 get much more explicit than that. Now he goes on 395 00:29:51.960 --> 00:29:54.400 and on. I mean, some Christians burned down a synagogue, 396 00:29:54.720 --> 00:29:57.839 and the Emperor comes in, and he says, no, us 397 00:29:57.920 --> 00:30:00.759 rebuild it for them. You must compensate them, rebuild it. 398 00:30:00.799 --> 00:30:04.400 I mean that the Roman empires often, you know, wanted 399 00:30:04.680 --> 00:30:08.200 religious pluralism, and and and and and didn't want to discriminate. 400 00:30:08.279 --> 00:30:11.559 And and Ambos goes to the Pope, to the Uh 401 00:30:11.759 --> 00:30:16.920