by Steven Shamrak

Throughout history, Jews have been blamed for almost everything. We were responsible for the Black Death during the Dark Ages. We were responsible for the exploitation of working classes by Capitalist society and spreading the ideals of Communism around the world. Jews were slave traders and were fighting against slavery; we are branded as imperialists and human rights activists; we destroyed the rule of the Tsar in Russia and created and obliterated, 70 years later, the Soviet Union. We are anarchists and socialists, hippies, gays and women’s rights activists, as well as neo-conservatives.

All this stupidity began after a Jewish guy, Jesus, started preaching a basic Jewish law — LOVE for fellow human beings. Several hundred years later his followers, with the blessing of a Roman Emperor, alleged that Jews were responsible for his death. After two thousand years, most people, mainly Christians, still have not asked or even want to know about the facts. Crucifixion was the Roman punishment for ‘criminals,’ people who opposed the brutal Roman occupation of Judea and Samaria, the hot spots of resistance to the Roman Empire. It was only after Rome adopted Christianity that Jews were blamed for killing the Jewish guy. After all, the Romans and the early church could not admit killing their own chosen god.

There used to be a saying in the Soviet Union: “If there is no water in a tap, it must be Jews who have drunk it all.” In a word that means blame Jews for everything. Paranoid accusations and anti-Semitic propaganda that Jews are in control of the world have now spread from the Christian to the Muslim world. This technique has always been used by kings, dictators and even by democratically-elected governments to control and divert the attention of the mob, the sorry population, from their own problems. We have even been accused of using the blood of Christian children in preparation of matzos for passover, with complete disregard for the fact that the Torah explicitly forbids Jews from using or eating any blood in food.

Jews have persistently been used as the most effective scapegoat! Some say: “If there were no Jews, they would be invented.”

If all these innuendoes were true that Israel, a nation which numbers less than 0.2% of the world population, has so much power over all humanity, Jews must be really the chosen people. Therefore, it would be a clear sign to any Christian or Muslim person, who believes in the Jewish teachings, as the Christian Bible and Koran claim, that they must worship Jews and allow us to gain full ownership of all Jewish land. Otherwise, they are not true believers. But we do not ask for any of this. The only request we have is: please leave as alone and let us live in peace on our land, Eretz-Israel.

And finally, I wonder if Jews are so powerful and such a world-controlling nation, as our ‘admirers’ say, why aren’t we yet, almost 60 years after the declaration of independence of Israel, in complete control of the land of our ancestors? Furthermore, all of us must ask: what a low level of self-esteem and/or heightened hate for Jews those idiots, who blame Jews for everything, have? Aren’t they able to do anything significant at all, good or bad, on their own? At the same time, I sincerely wish that they were right.

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Related: Israel, Anti-Semitism, Racism

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