Jews’ Success In Teaching About Their Persecution Cited As Proof Of Privilege

Antisemites see the privileged status of Jews in such contexts as Treblinka and conclude that Jews must exert enormous power.

New York, November 7 – Widespread knowledge that Jews were herded by the millions to their extermination by gas, bullets, starvation, and brutality, following many more centuries of oppression, and still today face antisemitic violence and rhetoric, now gets adduced as evidence that Jews enjoy an elevated status in Western society, observers note.

Antisemitic conspiracy theorists have long argued that a sinister cabal of Jews secretly holds the reins of global power – a tenet of Jew-haters across the political spectrum, and one that underlies the genocidal persecution that Nazis and their collaborators brought to bear during the Second World War, but that represented merely the industrialization and systemization of a murderous prejudice that has affected Jews for thousands of years. Generations of effort by Jewish groups and individuals to raise awareness of the ideologies, methods, and biases behind the world’s oldest hatred that kept Jews as an underclass for most of that time have born some fruit in the form of high-profile acknowledgements of those atrocities and commitments to prevent their recurrence – fruit that the conspiracy theorists cite as confirming their assertion that Jews control the public discourse.

Experts pointed out that antisemitism differs from other racial or religious prejudices. “Most racial discrimination sees the target group as inferior,” stated Avi Uss, a researcher with the Anti-Defamation League. “But when it comes to Jews, the vast majority of the animus is rooted in fears of Jewish power, of Jews being superior in intellect, cunning, resources – in short, it’s about the insecurities of the hater, rather than anything true about Jews. The antisemites see the privileged status of Jews in such contexts as Treblinka, Babi Yar, the Spanish Expulsion, the Khmielnicki Uprising, the Crusades, Stalin’s repression, blood libel massacres, Black Plague massacres, British restrictions on Jewish immigration to Palestine that kept countless Jews in the Nazis’ clutches, ghettoes, Tsarist Pale of Settlement restrictions, yellow badges, dhimmitude, Rindfleisch massacres, and pogroms, and they conclude that Jews must exert enormous power.”

“It’s the intellectual rigor that attracted me to this school of thought in the first place,” acknowledged Professor Rashid Khalidi of Columbia University. “Robust proof n an academic setting is hard to come by, so I appreciate the inevitability of the thesis that the Jews are too powerful, and that any successful effort to ‘correct’ or challenge that notion ipso facto proves it’s true; a not-successful effort simply leaves it unchallenged, and accepted as true.”

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