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The Evil Jew is a stereotype utilized by people in pursuit of anti-Semitic political agendas.

In this racist perspective, Jews are typically painted as controllers of capital and money, "clannish," and as having an agenda beyond what is visible. These stereotypes constitute a large part of many conspiracy theories. However, a thorough investigation will return that Jews have not in fact been controllers of capital and money, "clannish," or pursuers of a hidden agenda. Claims that Jews were (equally) disproportionately involved in the advent of communism, for instance, are false, as are claims that Jews were involved with the advents of fractional reserve banking. Anyone who researches these claims before coming to a hasty conclusion will find that they are either entirely false, wildly exaggerated or based on cherry picked examples.

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[edit] Christ-killers

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See the main article on this topic: Passion Play

Much anti-Semitism originates from the "Christ-killer" narrative, which posits that all Jews are guilty of deicide against Jesus. This meme wasn't repudiated by the Catholic Church until the Second Vatican Council in 1965. Because they forget that Jesus was a Jew.

[edit] Blood libel

See the main article on this topic: Blood libel

A common myth originating in Medieval Europe was that Jews murdered Christians in order to spice up their Matzo with the blood of the dead. Some blood libel theories claimed that the Jews preferred small children and babies and that they would kill them in Satanic murder rituals.

[edit] Jooish Bankstahs

Anti-Semitism is the socialism of fools.
—August Bebel.[1]
See the main article on this topic: Rothschild family

It's often noted that the banking and financial sectors are disproportionately inhabited by Jews. As a result, there are a proliferation of Jewish banker conspiracy theories, pretty much all revolving around or involving the Rothschild family, probably the most powerful banking family in the world that began its ascendancy in the late 18th century.

Oddly, part of the success of the Rothschild banking activity is that Meyer Rothschild operated on the principle of never lending to anyone to finance a business opportunity unless the opportunity was good for the borrower. A borrower who makes more off his business than his payments of interest and principal to a lender has little worthy of complaint about being in hock to the lender, which is more than one can say of dealings with loan sharks contemptible whatever their ethnicity. Also, at least in America, Jews are relatively scarce in the retail banking industry except in banks which serve a largely-Jewish clientele typically in Jewish neighborhoods.

This has led to various types of racist conspiracy theories as well as pro-Semitic racial pseudoscience. The conspiracy theories usually revolve around Jews using financial fraud or other trickery in order to take over the field of finance. A common trope in current theories is that Jews manipulate the world's financial system through the use of fractional-reserve banking and central banks like the Federal Reserve. On the flip side, a variety of racialist pseudoscience has been put forth claiming the inherent ethnic superiority of the Jews using their presence in the banking system as "evidence" of this.

Of course, there is a much simpler and realistic explanation for the observed phenomenon. The Bible prohibits usury, or lending money for interest, and Christians in Medieval Europe were prohibited from practicing usury by religious law. This left a societal niche for Jews to fill so they were invested in the financial sector. It was also one of the few professions open to Jews, as most medieval guilds banned Jews from their membership. One side effect is that it actually gave rulers a practical reason to tolerate Jews, as the Jewish bankers would understandably not loan money or do business with those who persecuted them. Although this often led to Jews being persecuted after they had loaned said ruler the money, as a way to get out of the debt without paying them.

Use of the terms "bank$tah" and "debt slavery" are usually a sign that you have reached the more unseemly and conspiratorial area of the internets. These areas should be avoided, as the information they display can confuse the average mind (However, if a user is sensible and intelligent, there is no harm in viewing these places recreationally.)

[edit] International Jewish conspiracy

See the main article on this topic: International Jewish conspiracy

The Jews are alleged to have leveraged their power in the financial industry and involvement in Freemason and Illuminati conspiracies to have completely taken over the world. Many of these "theories" were codified in the pseudohistorical hoax The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion. Besides banks, Jews are commonly alleged to especially control the media, governmental bodies, academia, and the arts. In fact, Jews hardly control any of the media networks anywhere in the world.

[edit] Nazi mythology

See the main article on this topic: Nazism

The Nazi Party famously promoted anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and myths. The most notable of these was the stab-in-the-back legend, which claimed Jews were in bed with the Reds and caused Germany to lose World War I. This is still expounded by followers of neo-Nazi ideology. Holocaust denial is another piece of pseudohistory promoted by neo-Nazis. But as anyone who has read and investigated the rest of the claims on this page can infer, Jews did none of these things.

[edit] Jews did 9/11!

See the main article on this topic: 9/11 conspiracy theories

Some Truthers invoke anti-Semitic tropes in their conspiracy theories, usually involving Mossad plots or the international Jewish conspiracy. The anti-Semitic versions of 9/11 conspiracy theories are popular in the Middle East. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is a vocal proponent of these theories.

[edit] Clannishness

Jews have been accused of being "clannish". This is a massive double standard, as virtually every other ethnic group in the world is clannish to some degree. Extra hypocrisy points for the antisemites that support some form of ethnicity based nationalism (i.e., virtually every racist ever).

[edit] See also

[edit] Footnotes

  1. [Richard J. Evans, The Coming of the Third Reich (Penguin Group, 2005: ISBN 0-14-303469-3), p. 496.]
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