Tolerance: Anti-Semitism - Just for the Jews?

Over six million Jews were murdered by Nazi Germany in WWII.  Let me make this a bit clearer for those that can't spell.  That would look like, 6,000,000.  Now, compared to the 30,000,000 that Russia lost it seems fairly small.  But, one number is due to the horror of war, the other is due to the "final solution."  6,000,000 Jews killed simply because they were Jews.

I bring this up to try and remind those that condemn Israel for what it does to those around them.  Could they be more tolerant?  Of course, but since the Exodus they have been fighting for their survival.  When is enough going to be enough?  Let us remember their faith in God as they marched dutifully into the showers of Dachau.  Let us not forget the other vacation spots erected by the Nazis for the final solution to the Jewish problem:  Auschwitz, Mauthausen, Ravensbruck and Majdanek. 

Could they be more tolerant?  Of course.  Could we be more understanding?  Of course.

When I hear people condemning what Israel does, it invariably begins with addressing the people as a whole.  "Those Jews..."   "The Hebrew mindset..."  "Why can't they just get along?"

We seem incapable of separating the Hebrew faith from the State of Israel.  Sound familiar?  We also seem incapable of separating heretical factions of the Islamic faith from the peaceful followers of Muhammad, peace be upon him.

I offer this quote, this call for repentance, for tolerance from Catholic priest and historian Edward Flannery:

"It is a tragedy in which Jesus participates, crucified again in the person of His people at the hand of many baptized in His name. The sin of anti-Semitism contains many sins, but in the end it is a denial of Christian faith, a failure of Christian hope, and a malady of Christian love. And was not this Christianity's supreme defection: that the Christian people to whom persecution was promised by its Master (John 16:2-4) was not the most persecuted people in Christendom, but rather was it the people from whom He came? And the ultimate scandal: that in carrying the burden of God in history the Jewish people did not find in the Christian churches an ally and defender but one of their most zealous detractors and oppressors? It is a story that calls for repentance."

Flannery, Edward H., The Anguish of the Jews: Twenty-Three Centuries of Antisemtism, pg. 295,  published 1985 by Paulist Press, 997 Macarthur Boulevard, Mahwah, N.J. 07430, U.S.A.

In conclusion I offer this for consideration.  This is an excerpt from Wikipedia on "Antisemitism":

Despite the use of the prefix anti-, the terms Semitic and anti-Semitic are not directly opposed to each other. Antisemitism refers specifically to prejudice against Jews alone and in general, despite the fact that there are other speakers of Semitic languages (e.g. Arabs, Ethiopians, or Assyrians) and that not all Jews speak a Semitic language.

Although the term "antisemitism" did not come into common usage until the 19th century, it is also applied to historic anti-Jewish incidences.

The term anti-Semitic has been used on occasion to include bigotry against other Semitic-language peoples such as Arabs, but such usage is not widely accepted.

Consider that last bit, "...such usage is not widely accepted."  Really?  I would offer that we must realize, and admit, we hold all Semitic people up to the light of disdain.  Anti-Semitic no longer just refers to intolerant attitudes toward Jews.  We must admit the problem before we can fix it.  I ask for tolerance toward a group of our fellow children.  Let us not judge all people by the actions of their governments or the heads of their faith.  Are we, as Americans, not as a people, so pure?

John 8:7 - But when they persisted in asking Him, He straightened up, and said to them, "He who is without sin among you, let him be the first to throw a stone at her."

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