đŻ Iâm tiered of the hateful and insulting trope of global anti-semitism. Accusing the entire world of European-style antisemitism is not fair and absolves Europe of its responsibility. âEveryone in the world hates usâ (a direct quote from an extended family member) assumes âthe worldâ = Europe. It is ahistorical and untrue to constantlâŠ
đŻ Iâm tiered of the hateful and insulting trope of global anti-semitism. Accusing the entire world of European-style antisemitism is not fair and absolves Europe of its responsibility. âEveryone in the world hates usâ (a direct quote from an extended family member) assumes âthe worldâ = Europe. It is ahistorical and untrue to constantly assert that Jews have been hated throughout the world for millennia. Europe is not âthe world.â Itâs nonsensical. Historical antisemitism is a fundamentally European problem.
Indeed Laura. In fact, while the US, Canada were closing their doors to Jewish refugees fleeing persecution in the 1930s and 1940s, Sultan Mohammed V of Morocco (which became a vassal of the Vichy regime after the Nazis blitzed their way into France) refused to implement the anti-Semitic enacted in Paris (see: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-hurowitz-moroccan-king-mohammed-v-20170425-story.html).
This is but the latest of many examples where Muslim Sultanates across West Asia and North Africa gave refuge to Jews fleeing persecution (the Spanish Inquisition in 1492 is another noteworthy example) or protected the Jews who lived under their rule for centuries. Were there isolated instances of violent persecution? Absolutely. But nothing that even remotely resembles the systemic continent wide prejudice that existed in Europe for at least a millenium.
đŻ Iâm tiered of the hateful and insulting trope of global anti-semitism. Accusing the entire world of European-style antisemitism is not fair and absolves Europe of its responsibility. âEveryone in the world hates usâ (a direct quote from an extended family member) assumes âthe worldâ = Europe. It is ahistorical and untrue to constantly assert that Jews have been hated throughout the world for millennia. Europe is not âthe world.â Itâs nonsensical. Historical antisemitism is a fundamentally European problem.
Indeed Laura. In fact, while the US, Canada were closing their doors to Jewish refugees fleeing persecution in the 1930s and 1940s, Sultan Mohammed V of Morocco (which became a vassal of the Vichy regime after the Nazis blitzed their way into France) refused to implement the anti-Semitic enacted in Paris (see: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-hurowitz-moroccan-king-mohammed-v-20170425-story.html).
This is but the latest of many examples where Muslim Sultanates across West Asia and North Africa gave refuge to Jews fleeing persecution (the Spanish Inquisition in 1492 is another noteworthy example) or protected the Jews who lived under their rule for centuries. Were there isolated instances of violent persecution? Absolutely. But nothing that even remotely resembles the systemic continent wide prejudice that existed in Europe for at least a millenium.
To elaborate on my previous comment, the social engineering after the formation of Israel wasn't just contained within historic Palestine. For 'demographic' reasons (because European Ashkenazi Jews didn't migrate to Israel in sufficient numbers during the 20th century, even after 1945) migrations of Iraqi, Yemeni, Moroccan, Algerian, Egyptian Mizrahi Jews had to be coerced thereby displacing them from lands they'd called home for millenia (see: https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/iraq-jews-attacks-zionist-role-confirmed-operative-police-report and; https://www.middleeasteye.net/big-story/truth-behind-israeli-propaganda-expulsion-arab-jews).