Anti-Semitism Quotes

• And so we have one of the great ironies of the early Christian tradition. The profoundly Jewish religion of Jesus and his followers became the viciously anti-Jewish religion of later times, leading to the horrific persecutions of the Middle Ages and the pogroms and attempted genocides that have plagued the world down to recent times.6 Anti-Semitism as it has come down to us today is the history of specifically Christian reactions to non-Christian Jews. It is one of the least savory inventions of the early church.

  

  Bart Ehrman
  • Church
  • Religion
  • Jewish

• Anti-Semitism is not based on strictly religious grounds and is not directed against the Jewish faith as such. However, all German Christians resent and denounce the fact that the Jews have been the chief advocates of atheism. They have influenced the workers' children through the Communist youth organizations, of which they are the leading spirit.

  

  Ernst Hanfstaengl
  • Children
  • Faith
  • Religious

• Anti-Semitism is a disease-you catch it from Jews.

  

  Edgar Steele
  • Disease
  • Jews
  • Anti-Semitism

• When ordinary Soviet citizens are told that a vital trade agreement awarding their country most-favoured-nation status with the US is being blocked in Congress because Soviet Jews are demanding as an absolute right something few other inhabitants can expect as a special privilege - then the result is likely to be spontaneous outbreaks of anti-Semitism.

  

  Alan Brien
  • Result
  • Privilege
  • Agreement

• Even in the Western world, one cannot argue that the ideal has been achieved given the existence of issues like the integration, participation and representation of Muslim citizens, and occasional but lingering anti-Semitism.

  

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan
  • Issues
  • Anti-Semitism
  • Muslim Citizens

• Never accept such hatred, intolerance and anti-Semitism. Never.

  

  Pierre Pettigrew
  • Accept
  • Hatred
  • Anti-Semitism

• The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Mistake
  • Stupid
  • Prejudice

• Traditionally in Christian circles, Judas in fact has been associated with Jews. Of being traitors, avaricious, who in fact, betray Jesus, who are Christ-killers. And this portrayal of Judas of course also leads then to horrendous acts of anti-Semitism through the centuries.

  

  Bart Ehrman
  • Christian
  • Jesus
  • Killers

• Seriously, I faced a lot of anti-Semitism playing hockey as a kid. It motivated me to play well and to punch everyone who was anti-Semitic. I was taunted and called names. I'd either beat them with a goal or with my fists.

  

  Harley Pasternak
  • Goal
  • Anti-Semitism

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