The suffering history of the Jews

The Jews are a national group that has been wandering, oppressed, spurned, and even massacred for thousands of years. A nation that was almost exterminated by Nazi Germany in World War II! What is the reason why this nation is so troubled and has almost become an abandoned child of God?

This history can be traced back to before the birth of Jesus, starting with the emergence of "God's chosen people".

Although the term "anti-Semitism" was only coined in 1879, the phenomenon it refers to has existed for a long time. Some historians replace the term anti-Semitism with other terms, such as anti-Semitism or simply common hatred of Jews. Historians have also traced manifestations of anti-Semitism to ancient Egypt. In the 3rd century BC, an Egyptian archbishop named Monasau of Alexandria left a new report different from the exciting Hebrew legend 1,000 years after Moses led the Jews out of Egypt. This report believed that , unlike what is recorded in the Old Testament and Exodus - the Jews were saved under the guidance of God. He claimed that the Jews were actually expelled from Egypt because they, like other ragged immigrants who wandered around, suffered from a variety of infectious diseases, including leprosy. In Monasau's view, this, rather than the self-esteem of the Jews who regard themselves as "God's favorites" (God's chosen people?) who are separated from the masses, is the root of the Jews' avoidance of other people. Because of this, the Egyptians once deported them as untouchables!

One of the most vicious early accusers was John Chrysostom, Archbishop of Constantinople in the 4th century AD. He claimed that the Jews had abandoned their faith since the time of Moses. He portrayed synagogues as brothels and Jews as drunkards and gluttons. He believed that these perfidious, lustful, greedy, and cruel Jews had defiled all chastity and burned their own children as offerings to the devil. By the 5th century, the idea that Jews and Satan were one was embedded in Christian doctrine throughout Europe. This provided the context for the moral denigration and physical persecution of Jews as outcasts and blasphemers in the Middle Ages.

In the Middle Ages, the lurid crimes attributed to the Jews extended to: the slaughter of children for magical and healing purposes during religious liturgy; the desecration of the Eucharist, when the Eucharist was still taken literally The belief that bread and wine would become the body and blood of Jesus was a terrible crime; spreading the Black Death by poisoning wells. An early European massacre against the Jews occurred in 1096. Christians gathered in the small town of Speicher in the Rhine region of Germany to form the First Crusade. The Jews in Worms received the news and took refuge in the archbishop. in the mansion. Armed attackers rushed in and stripped the Jews of their clothes before dragging them out. It is said that some people killed their children themselves to prevent them from being baptized. In just over two days, 800 Jews were massacred in Germany. In the following days, another 700 Jews died in Mainz. There were rumors that Jews killed each other to escape their tormentors. life. Although the ostensible purpose of the Crusades was to liberate the Holy Land from pagans, they always incited attacks against Jews living in Europe. In 1146, news of the Second Crusade led to renewed attacks on Jewish communities in many towns and cities in Germany and France. At the end of the 12th century, the Third Crusade was accompanied by the massacre of the Jews in England - London, Yorkshire, Stamford and Lynn. A steady pattern of anti-Semitic plunders, panicked victims' desperate pleas to escape, and outbreaks of mass suicides persisted throughout the 13th and 14th centuries, recurring whenever signs of a return to Jerusalem were raised.

At the end of the 19th century, hysterical accusations of massacres of Jews during religious ceremonies intensified. No matter how the Catholic Church moderated its violent tendencies by citing the biblical taboo against killing and touching dead bodies, it concentrated on burning Jews. It has become a new way for people to express their hatred.

When this fear and hatred reached its peak, Jews were required to wear special clothing so that they would be instantly recognizable: red and yellow hats in Germany, green pointed hats in Poland. Years later, it is interesting to note that when a new generation of leaders no longer demanded distinction among Jews, some Jews insisted on retaining their external markers that distinguished them.

After the Russian October Revolution, the ascendancy of Jews under Bolshevik rule helped Jew-hating forces launch a series of new conspiracy theories. It should be pointed out that people already suspected that Jewish international financiers played a key role in overthrowing the tsarist rule through subtle manipulation. The victory of the October Revolution and the existing suspicion of the Jews brought them to widespread condemnation. Famous Western capitalists, such as Henry Ford (1863-1947) of the United States, once questioned the economic strength of Jews around the world.

In Germany, the political trend of anti-Semitism, which had been prevalent in the late 19th century, became active again during the Great Depression, claiming that Jews were responsible for the predicament that Germany was in. Anti-Semitic parties were also active in Habsburg-ruled Austria, which portrayed Jews as economic enemies who they said had hastened the demise of rural pastoral life. Hitler rose to power through tyranny and dictatorship. For the Jews, this was a history of insidiousness and cunning. The Nazis' intention was very clear. As early as the 1920s, they had made it clear that Jews were not allowed to become German citizens. However, they did not pay enough attention to the Jews at the time. They were hesitant between leaving and leaving. Hitler It was through this psychological tactic that he gradually achieved his goal, and by the time the Jews realized the seriousness of the problem, it was already too late. In April 1933, the flashpoint was the refusal to buy goods from Jewish stores. The commandos encouraged people to put slogans on windows, abuse customers and damage property. Non-Aryans were not allowed to serve in the government or universities, and the revised "Heritage Law" deprived Jews of their inheritance rights. Then in the Nuremberg Laws promulgated in 1936, the meaning of German citizenship was redefined. Two years later, after a Polish Jewish youth murdered a German embassy official in France in anger because his father was expelled from Germany, Germany took action. After much planning, they launched a nationwide campaign of anti-Semitic violence. About 90 Jews were killed, a large number of synagogues were defaced, buildings were damaged, books and sacred objects were burned, and thousands of Jews were arrested. This is "Kristallnacht". But this was only the beginning. From then on, a large number of Jews were deported to labor camps in eastern Germany. The Wancese Conference in January 1942 passed the final solution to the genocide of the Jews. From the statistics alone we can see the brutality of this massacre. During World War II, approximately 3 million Jews, along with numerous Poles, Gypsies, homosexuals and communists, were killed by the Nazis in concentration camps in Poland. More than 1 million died in Auschwitz, 974,000 in Treblinka, 600,000 in Belzek, 250,000 in Sobibo, 225,000 in Chemno, and 60,000 people died in Majdanek. Most of them were gassed to death and then burned to death. Although the horrific genocidal atrocities that occurred in these hellish places were documented in detail, and similar massacres have occurred in other places since then, people still find it difficult to accept psychologically and cannot believe it.

In 1948, a Jewish state was born. The birth of this country was full of difficulties, and for Jews and Arabs, the bloody conflicts that followed were inevitable.