“ COMFORT, MY PEOPLE…”

HERE IS A LIST OF OTHER TOPICS WHICH COULD BE BROADCAST UNDER THIS HEADING, BUT I HOPE TO PUT OUT FIRST MY SUMMARY OR  CONCLUSION, that is in case some viewers find the whole subject irrelevant, boring and merely academic.

LIST OF OTHER  SUBJECTS WHICH I HOPE TO ISSUE LATER :-

MEDIEVAL LAWS  AND EDICTS.

THE  ATTITUDE  OF  THE  MEDIEVAL  CHURCH  TOWARDS  THE  JEWS.

UNDER  ISLAM-  LAWS CONTROLLING  JEWS  AND   CHRISTIANS.

MEDIEVAL  MYTHS  AND  SUPERSTITIONS.

A  DIGEST- HOSTILE  MODERN  AUTHORS, CHRISTIAN AND SECULAR.

THE  DREYFUS  AFFAIR.

THE  PROTOCOLS  OF  THE  ELDERS  OF  ZION.

THE  REACTIONS  OF  THE NATIONS  DURING  THE  HOLOCAUST,-  AN  OVERVIEW.

THE  OPENING AND  CLOSING  OF  A  WAY  OF  ESCAPE.

HATRED  OF  THE   JEWS,-  A  RANDOM  COLLECTION  OF  PRETEXTS  USED.

A  SHORT  CHRONICLE  OF  ISRAEL’S   PAIN  AND  ANGUISH.

A  CONCLUSION  AND  A  CALL  TO  THE   CHURCHES  OF  EUROPE.

APPENDICES,-  SOME  VOICES  CALLING  THE  CHURCHES  TO  REPENTANCE.

A  BREIF  BIBLIOGAPHY.

 

          A   CONCLUSION, AND A  CALL  TO  THE  CHURCHES  OF  EUROPE.

“ To be at  once  an anti-Semite  and  a  Christian  is  to  try  to  marry  reverence  with  abuse.”-      Jules Isaac, –“The Teaching of  Contempt.”( McGraw-Hill  Book  Co., 1965, p.150.)

 

      Never in the whole of recorded history has there been such a continuous stream of abuse and calumny directed against one people or race as there has been against the Jews. A literary hostility has been singular and unprovoked  : no other people  group has been  subject to such opprobrium,= the Romany, the Kurds, the Lapps, the Basques and other minority peoples have never suffered without relief as have the Jews. That hostility has persisted through many centuries, despite the several dispersals and many expulsions of the Jews into other lands. Almost always, their sufferings have been marked by their passivity and absence of retaliation. Most remarkably, the hostility towards this people is baseless, and springs from misunderstanding, myth, misinformation and mis-reading of the scriptures. It has been perpetuated by nameless fears and rumour, supported by discriminatory laws and decrees issued by rulers, Christian and Islamic authorities, autocrats and tyrants.

    That stream of vitriol arose long before the Christian era began, but then it was little more than a simple literary device ,- the gratuitous mockery of academics directed towards a strange, exclusive minority . In the centuries which followed secular writers and some Christian teachers of the church built up intense accusations against the Jews. The secular authors inveighed against the Jews because of their unconformity, unusual religious customs and the practice of money-lending. The latter activity was a last resort for many Jews, who were excluded from many trade guilds and the ownership of land. Christian writers saw the Jews as the one group of people who were guilty of the crucifixion of the Son of God, that they were also slaves to a legalistic use of the scriptures. They were thought to be a race who were to remain under the curse of God until the end of the age, and that they were deservedly rejected by God in favour of the church ,- which was thought to be the “new Israel.”

 

     TO BE CONTINUED…