{"id":1782350,"date":"2022-12-21T07:47:28","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T12:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1782350"},"modified":"2022-12-21T07:47:31","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T12:47:31","slug":"a-brief-and-visual-history-of-antisemitism-is-an-important-resource-in-todays-climate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-brief-and-visual-history-of-antisemitism-is-an-important-resource-in-todays-climate\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A Brief And Visual History Of Antisemitism\u2019 Is An Important Resource In Today\u2019s Climate"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fa-brief-and-visual-history-of-antisemitism-is-an-important-resource-in-todays-climate%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1782350&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Israel B. Bitton\u2019s new book, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Brief-Visual-History-Antisemitism\/dp\/9657801109\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">A Brief and Visual History of Antisemitism<\/a>,\u201d shouldn\u2019t be needed \u2014 but sadly, it is.<\/p>\n<p>A substantial work two years in the making, the visually rich effort features a foreword by Israeli President Isaac Herzog. It\u2019s aimed at all people, but it is particularly designed for seniors in high school as some of the images and discussion could be too intense for younger readers.<\/p>\n<p>Former longtime Democratic New York State Assemblyman Dov Hikind, founder of Americans Against Antisemitism, was intimately involved in the creation of the book. He told me, \u201cKnowledge is power. We wanted the book to be easy to read and follow.\u201d And it is \u2014 even coming with \u201caugmented reality bonus content\u201d aimed at a generation that might not be as familiar as they should be with the long and sordid history of hate and violence directed against the Jewish people.<\/p>\n<p>Hikind went on to note that in November alone, there were 45 hate crimes committed against Jews in New York City \u2014 almost three times as many as those committed against all other groups combined. Hikind also cited FBI Director <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/fbi-director-says-us-jews-under-threat-from-all-sides-amid-rise-in-antisemism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Christopher Wray\u2019s Nov. 17 testimony before Congress<\/a> that \u201cAntisemitism and violence that comes out of it is a persistent and present fact,\u201d with the Jewish community \u201cgetting hit from all sides.\u201d Wray then said 63 percent of religious hate crimes were motivated by antisemitism \u2014 a remarkable fact when considering that only 2.4 percent of Americans are Jewish.<\/p>\n<p>The book runs 549 pages before hitting its densely packed endnotes, serving both as a well-documented resource book and a useful tool for the classroom. It\u2019s divided into nine discrete units: Defining Antisemitism; Beginnings of Antisemitism; Proliferation of Antisemitism; Secularization of Antisemitism; Apex of Antisemitism; Easternization of Antisemitism; Politicization of Antisemitism; The Current Landscape; and Combating Antisemitism.<\/p>\n<p>I queried Hikind about how antisemitism might be different today than it was when the infamous \u201cProtocols of the Elders of Zion\u201d was published in Russia in 1903. \u201cThere is no difference,\u201d Hikind said, \u201cThe same thing Jews were accused of in the past are the same things they are accused of today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hikind then noted that mass communication makes it much easier to spread the hate \u2014 that people like Kanye West (or \u201cYe\u201d) and New York Nets star Kyrie Irving each have massive influence and can reach millions of people, many of whom \u201cdon\u2019t want to be confused with the facts.\u201d The danger is that celebrities can legitimize antisemitism, not only for mentally ill people but also for the frustrated and angry masses or the criminally inclined who do not need much of an excuse for violence.<\/p>\n<p>In an illuminating section on the roots of modern antisemitism, the book details the Marxist origins of critical race theory (CRT). The practical effect is that \u201cif whites are racists, and non-whites can\u2019t be racists, then it follows that \u2018white Jews\u2019 are racist, too, especially whenever they take umbrage with antisemitism that comes from non-whites. After all<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The book is 549 pages long and has detailed endnotes. 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