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   In researching Jewish history, the investigator discovers a wide   
   variance of written material. Work by authors expressly critical of   
   Jews (and they include a surprising number of Jewish commentators,   
   mostly "apostates" of one kind or another) is invariably labeled by   
   today's political conventions to be "anti-Semitic" in nature. There is   
   a large body of such material extending throughout history, written by   
   critics wherever Jews were to be found.  Observations about Jewish   
   life by non-Jews is startlingly consistent over two thousand years.   
   Consistently credible Gentile themes in attacks against Jews include   
   Jewish elitism, their insularity and clannishness, their disdain for   
   non-Jews, their exploitive and deceptive behavior towards those not   
   their own, the suspicion of Jewish national loyalties and allegiance   
   to the lands they lived in, excessive Jewish proclivity for money and   
   economic domination, and an economic "parasitism" (the concentration   
   of Jews in lucrative non-productive fields of finance-usury, money   
   lending, etc.-at the expense of non-Jewish communities).   
      
   "Hatred for the Jews," Abram Leon writes, "does not date solely from   
   the birth of Christianity. Seneca treated the Jews as a criminal race.   
   Juvenal believed that the Jews only existed to cause evil for other   
   peoples. Quintilian said that Jews were a curse for other people"   
   (Leon, 71).   
   In 59 BC the Roman statesman Cicero criticized Jewish "clannishness"   
   and "influence in the assemblies." In the second century AD Celsus,   
   one of Rome's great medical writers, wrote that Jews "pride themselves   
   in possessing superior wisdom and disdain for the company of other   
   men." Philostratus, an ancient Greek author, believed that Jews "have   
   long since risen against humanity itself. They are men who have   
   devised a misanthropic life, who share neither food nor drink with   
   others." (Cf. Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice, I, iii, 29-32.) The   
   great Roman historian Tacitus (A.D. 56-120) declared that "the Jews   
   are extremely loyal toward one another, and are always ready to show   
   compassion [for their fellow Jews], but toward other people they feel   
   only hate and enmity" (Morais, 46).   
      
   Centuries later Voltaire's criticism of Jews, in his Essai sur le   
   Moeurs, repeated many of the same charges: "The Jewish nation dares to   
   display an irreconcilable hatred toward all nations, and revolts   
   against all masters; always superstitious, always greedy for the   
   well-being enjoyed by others, always barbarous-cringing in misfortune   
   and insolent in prosperity."   
   "However uncomfortable it is to recognize," says Albert Lindemann,   
   "not all those whom historians have classified as anti-Semites were   
   narrow bigots, irrational, or otherwise incapable of acts of altruism   
   and moral courage. They represented a bewildering range of opinion and   
   personality types" (Lindemann, 13). And why is this "uncomfortable   
   [for Jews] to recognize?" Because, by even a child's exercise of logic   
   and common sense, the common denominator of all such disparate people   
   can only be the enduring truths about Jews as each observer   
   experienced them in varying historical and cultural circumstances.   
   The French Jewish intellectual (and eventual Zionist), Bernard Lazare,   
   among many others in history, noted this obvious fact in 1894, long   
   before the Nazi persecutions of Jews and resultant institutionalized   
   Jewish efforts to deny, or obfuscate, crucial-and central- aspects of   
   their history:   
   Wherever the Jews settled one observes the development of   
   anti-Semitism, or rather anti-Judaism ... If this hostility, this   
   repugnance had been shown towards the Jews at one time or in one   
   country only, it would be easy to account for the local cause of this   
   sentiment. But this race has been the object of hatred with all   
   nations amidst whom it settled.   
   Inasmuch as the enemies of Jews belonged to diverse races, as   
   they dwelled far apart from one another, were ruled by   
   different laws and governed by opposite principles; as they had   
   not the same customs and differed in spirit from one another,   
   so that they could not possibly judge alike of any subject, it   
   must needs be that the general causes of anti-Semitism have always   
   resided in [the people of] Israel itself, and not in those who   
   antagonized it (Lazare, 8).   
   Excerpts from from When Victims Rule, online at Jewish Tribal Review.   
   http://www.jewishtribalreview.org/wvr.htm   
      
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