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Stranger in a Strange Land
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Ant-Semitism, the notion that Jews are racial degenerates because they are "Semites" rather than "Aryans", didn't emerge until the 19th Century.
Oh, please, it does not require any concept of 'race' for Anti-Semitism to exist.
"I had made up my mind to write no more either about the Jews or against them. But since I learned that these miserable and accursed people do not cease to lure to themselves even us, that is, the Christians, I have published this little book, so that I might be found among those who opposed such poisonous activities of the Jews who warned the Christians to be on their guard against them. I would not have believed that a Christian could be duped by the Jews into taking their exile and wretchedness upon himself. However, the devil is the god of the world, and wherever God's word is absent he has an easy task, not only with the weak but also with the strong. May God help us. Amen."
"Therefore be on your guard against the Jews, knowing that wherever they have their synagogues, nothing is found but a den of devils in which sheer self-glory, conceit, lies, blasphemy, and defaming of God and men are practiced most maliciously and veheming his eyes on them."
"Over and above that we let them get rich on our sweat and blood, while we remain poor and they suck the marrow from our bones."
Martin Luther, "On the Jews and Their Lies" (1543)
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