Friday, September 30, 2022
- Friday, September 30, 2022
- Elder of Ziyon
- 1941, antisemitism, blame Jews, conspiracy theories, Electronic Intifada, IfNotNow, Jews have always been Zionist, justifying antisemitism, Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle
Modern antisemitic groups like Electronic Intifada, IfNotNow and others like to claim that they aren't antisemitic - the real antisemites are the Jews (they say "Zionists.")
It turns out that even that argument was used by the classic antisemites of history.
This op-ed in The Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle, October 03, 1941 shows that this argument was used by the antisemitic "America First Committee."
This op-ed shows a methodology of antisemitism that remains popular today.
"That's the trick, the technique and the plan of the anti-Semite. Blame the Jews for everything bad, then deny that it is anti-Semitism, and then blame the Jews themselves for bringing up the subject at all."
Nothing has changed in 80 years.