If any one of us time-travelled to the coffeehouses of Germany or Austria of 1905, or even 1925, and told the Jewish intelligentsia there drinking coffee and smoking big cigars, that in one generation hence, Germany would have nearly wiped out European Jewry, they'd have either laughed themselves sick or chased you out with a stick.

That a Holocaust would descend on them, not even rivalled by Medieval Christo-European religious Jew-hate...

Of all European cultures, Jews felt completely integrated into German and Austrian culture...

Yiddish, their local European language, was a hybrid of Hebrew and German.

German and Austrian Jews were the shining lights of German science, art, and literature - the epitome of all that it meant to be German or Austrian.

And yet, the persistence of ancient religio-European Jew-hate had not died with knights in shining armour, or kings ruling by divine right, or Jesus reigning supreme.

Why do you feel the need for two threads in which you refuse to explain why you think Europeans were "compelled" to hate Jews for thousands of years?

Israeli and diaspora Jews fully understand this, and likely it will serve as a lesson to them that, unlike the Reich, will last 1000 years.

Likely, the Centralverein deutscher Staatsbürger jüdischen Glaubens could sense something evil in the German air even back in 1905.

MeisterEckhart wrote on Sep 10^th, 2025 at 12:36pm:

freediver wrote on Sep 10th, 2025 at 11:11am: There are only a small number of you, once you take out the Muslims, who are compelled by their religion to hate Jews. What compelled the vast majority of Europeans over thousands of years to hate Jews?

Are you going to answer the question Meister, or do you need us to explain to you why you think the things you think?

freediver wrote on Sep 23^rd, 2025 at 8:35am:

MeisterEckhart wrote on Sep 10th, 2025 at 12:36pm: freediver wrote on Sep 10th, 2025 at 11:11am: There are only a small number of you, once you take out the Muslims, who are compelled by their religion to hate Jews. What compelled the vast majority of Europeans over thousands of years to hate Jews? Are you going to answer the question Meister, or do you need us to explain to you why you think the things you think?

You know you don't deserve good-faith answers to bad-faith questions...

A couple of decades running a politics forum and you still respond like an uppity teengirl.

Antisemitist acs of violence in Europe are committed overwhelmingly by Muslims. It is the same here - Muslims and their supporters and sympathisers stand out in acts of violence and vandalism.




And if you point out that Muslims are violent and anthsemitic  they call you an islamophobe!  :o