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Antisemitism (also spelled anti-Semitism or anti-semitism) is hostility to, prejudice, or discrimination against Jews. A person who holds such positions is called an antisemite. Antisemitism is usually considered to be a form of racism.
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- [the chant] from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free [as] an antisemitic slogan [and] rallying cry (that) has long been used by anti-Israel voices, including supporters of terrorist organizations such as Hamas.
- The Anti-Defamation League according to House passes resolution to censure Tlaib over Israel comments (November 8, 2023)
- It should not be hard to shut down hatred and antisemitism where we see it
- AOC according to AOC decries ‘bigotry and callousness’ of pro-Palestinian rally in New York (@MartinPengelly 10 Oct 2023 22.13 BST)
- Political antisemitism developed because the Jews were a separate body, while social discrimination arose because of the growing equality of Jews with all other groups.
- Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, San Diego: Harvest Harcourt [1985 edition], 1951, p. 54; opening of Chapter 3 "The Jews and Society" (Antisemitism, Chapter 4)
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- A terrifying scene: a mob charges the tarmac at a Russian airport after a flight from Tel Aviv arrives. This is not a protest. This is an antisemitic hunt for Jews.
- Dana Bash according to "cnn dana bash interviews mother sister of american hostage" Associated Press Slammed for Headline Calling Anti-Semitic Lynch Mob in Russia an Anti-Israel 'Protest' displaying a tweet from Bash (Alex Griffing October 30, 2023, 5:11 pm)
- Der Antisemitismus ist der Sozialismus der dummen Kerle.
- Translation: “Antisemitism is the Socialism of fools.”
- A common saying of German social democrats, commonly attributed to August Bebel, who attributed it to Ferdinand Kronawetter. See Der Antisemitismus (1894) by Hermann Bahr, p. 21
- Today, Jewish families worried about being targeted in school, wearing symbols of their faith walking down the street, or going out about their daily lives...We can’t stand by and stand silent when this happens. We must, without equivocation, denounce antisemitism. We must also, without equivocation, denounce Islamophobia.
- Joe Biden quoted in "Biden concerned over rising antisemitism as administration takes action," CNN (October 30, 2023)
- I know you hesitate to appoint the man I recommended because he is a Jew. Who do you think you are, Harvard?
- Harvard Professor G. D. Birkhoff from "A Century of mathematics in America", Volume 1, By Peter L. Duren, Richard Askey, Uta C. Merzbach pg 235.
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- Conservatives and fascist ideologies adapted the notion that Jews were alien to the national community to a cultural critique that attributed the inauthenticity of contemporary mass culture to Jewish influence. Jews, not having a fixed location, could not share in cultures rooted in the community of blood or soil and were therefore reduced to the imitation of other cultures, to artifice.
- "Dozens of Judensaus... intersect with the portrayal of the Jew as a Christ killer. Various illustrations of the murder of Simon of Trent blended images of Judensau, the devil, the murder of little Simon himself, and the Crucifixion. In the seventeenth-century engraving from Frankfurt … a well-dressed, very contemporary-looking Jew has mounted the sow backward and holds her tail, while a second Jew sucks at her milk and a third eats her feces. The horned devil, himself wearing a Jewish badge, looks on and the butchered Simon, splayed as if on a cross, appears on a panel above."
- Jeremy Cohen (2007) quoted in Christ Killers: The Jews and the Passion from the Bible to the Big Screen, Oxford University Press, p. 208, ISBN 0195178416
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- There has been no tragedy in modern times equal in its awful effects to the fight on the Jew in Germany. It is an attack on civilization, comparable only to such horrors as the Spanish Inquisition and the African slave trade. It has set civilization back a hundred years, and in particular has it made the settlement and understanding of race problems more difficult and more doubtful. It is widely believed by many that the Jewish problem in Germany was episodic, and is already passing. Visitor to the Olympic Games are apt to have gotten that impression. They saw no Jewish oppression. Just as Northern visitors to Mississippi see no Negro oppression.
- W. E. B. Du Bois, The Present Plight of The German Jew, Writing on National Socialism, Pittsburgh Courier, December 19, 1936. Republished in Aptheker, Herbert, ed (1986). Newspaper Columns: 1883-1944. Kraus-Thomson Organization. p. 149. ISBN 978-0-527-25347-9.
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- So why did National Socialism take up the Jewish question in its programme already during the period of the party’s struggle? The Jewish population had in percentage terms relative to the rest of the population a disproportionately high share in the management of the economy, in the free professions, in the press, in the radio, in the theatre, etc. So the enmity between host people and guests, between the Jewish part and the non-Jewish part of the population grew to such an extent that this would have doubtless led at some point to an explosion. That was why the leadership was concerned to reduce the tension in an orderly, normal and legal way. This enmity had been present already for a long time in the German population, because the Jews had been able to enrich themselves with brutality and violence, and to let the German people starve. Especially during the period of hyperinflation dramatic events had arisen and the Jews themselves partially admit that they had enriched themselves at the expense of the German people, their host people.
- Adolf Eichmann, The Eichmann Tapes: My Role in the Final Solution
- Antisemites carry with them an imagined version of the Jew. It might be a renaissance painting of Judas Iscariot, his purse bulging with silver, or it could be the supposed string-pullers of the house of Rothschild. It might be Shakespeare’s miser Shylock or Dickens' miser Fagin. It might be the alien lizards imagined by David Icke or the wicked manipulators of weather, wielding their “Jewish space-laser”, dreamed up by the Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor-Greene. It might even be a capitalist predator called Hershel Fink. The fantasies about Jews adapt to each age, and can find a home on the right and left. But the presence of these fantastical, diabolic Jews in the global imagination – often embedded so deep in the culture that we hardly notice them – is a constant.
- Jonathan Freedland "Once even Jews would utter the word 'Jew' in a whisper. Now it is up in lights" The Guardian (21 September 2022)
- This terrifying pattern of antisemitic attacks has been relentless since the Israel-Hamas war began on Oct. 7, with no signs of diminishing...The lid to the sewers is off, and Jewish communities all across the country are being inundated with hate."
- Without anti-Semitism, Nazism would have been inconceivable, both as an ideology and as a catalyst of the emotions. As for German society only two of its many sub-groups, the cultivated liberal minority among the bourgeoisie, and the politically educated segment of the working class, were relatively immune to anti-Semitism.
- Richard Grunberger, "The 12-Year Reich: A Social History of Nazi Germany 1933-1945", New York: NY, Holt, Rinehart and Winston (1971) p. 466
- [A]nti-Semitism was rife in almost all varieties of socialism.
- Sidney Hook, "Home Truths About Marx," Commentary (September 1978), reprinted in Marxism and Beyond, Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Littlefield (1983) p. 117.
- In Western Europe, anti-Semitism directed against Arabs has largely replaced anti-Semitism against Jews
- Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations (1996), Simon and Schuster, 2007, p. 200
- Anti-Semitism means spreading enmity towards the Jews. When the accursed tsarist monarchy was living its last days it tried to incite ignorant workers and peasants against the Jews. The tsarist police, in alliance with the landowners and the capitalists, organised pogroms against the Jews. The landowners and capitalists tried to divert the hatred of the workers and peasants who were tortured by want against the Jews. In other countries, too, we often see the capitalists fomenting hatred against the Jews in order to blind the workers, to divert their attention from the real enemy of the working people, capital. Hatred towards the Jews persists only in those countries where slavery to the landowners and capitalists has created abysmal ignorance among the workers and peasants. Only the most ignorant and downtrodden people can believe the lies and slander that are spread about the Jews. This is a survival of ancient feudal times, when the priests burned heretics at the stake, when the peasants lived in slavery, and when the people were crushed and inarticulate. This ancient, feudal ignorance is passing away; the eyes of the people are being opened. It is not the Jews who are the enemies of the working people. The enemies of the workers are the capitalists of all countries. Among the Jews there are working people, and they form the majority. They are our brothers, who, like us, are oppressed by capital; they are our comrades in the struggle for socialism. Among the Jews there are kulaks, exploiters and capitalists, just as there are among the Russians, and among people of all nations. The capitalists strive to sow and foment hatred between workers of different faiths, different nations and different races. Those who do not work are kept in power by the power and strength of capital. Rich Jews, like rich Russians, and the rich in all countries, are in alliance to oppress, crush, rob and disunite the workers. Shame on accursed tsarism which tortured and persecuted the Jews. Shame on those who foment hatred towards the Jews, who foment hatred towards other nations. Long live the fraternal trust and fighting alliance of the workers of all nations in the struggle to overthrow capital.
- Vladimir Lenin, Anti-Jewish Pogroms (March 1919) Lenin’s Collected Works, 4th English Edition, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1972 Volume 29, p. 252-253.
- South African Nationalism is riddled with anti-semitism, but Jews are entirely free to practise their religion and study their sacred books; in the Soviet Union anti-semitism is directed and encouraged by the state, and Jews can be, and are, imprisoned for teaching Hebrew scripture.
- Bernard Levin, The Times, December 11, 1985.
- Of all the bigotries that savage the human temper there is none so stupid as the anti-Semitic. It has no basis in reason; it is not rooted in faith; it aspires to no ideal; it is just one of those dank and unwholesome weeds that grow in the morass of racial hatred.
- David Lloyd George, Is it Peace? (1923), p. 246
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- Anti-Semitism is a Socialist movement, only nobler and purer in form than Social Democracy.
- Wilhelm Marr , as quoted in The Rise of Political Anti-Semitism in Germany and Austria, Peter Pulzer, revised edition, Harvard University Press, 1988, p. 45.
- Any discussion of anti-Semitism is frequently lost in a misunderstanding of the distinction between Hebrews, Jews, and Zionists. The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language describes a Hebrew as a member of the Semitic people, a race descended from Abraham of the Old Testament which, ironically enough, also includes most Arabs. A Jew, on the other hand, is a adherent of Judaism, a religion handed down by the Israelites. A Zionist is a member of a political movement concerned with preserving and furthering the aims of the state of Israel. These constitute three separate issues: race, religion, and politics.
- Jim Marrs Rule by Secrecy (HarperCollins, 2001)
- Anti-Semitism is a kind of social mark of Cain that indicates a society or culture that is not ready for prime time and which will fail the tests of modern life; when anti-Semitism gains a foothold, the canary in your coal mine has just keeled over and died.
- Walter Russell Mead, Why AIPAC Is Good For The Jews — and For Everyone Else, The American Interest, April 5th, 2010.
- But overall, the political Right tended to oppose Jewish equality, and to eschew cooperation with Jews. This exclusion meant that politically active European Jews often had few political choices other than the political Left.
- Philip Mendes, Jews and the Left: The Rise and Fall of a Political Alliance (2014) Springer, pg. 11
- Formerly an anti-Semite was somebody who hated Jews because they were Jews and had a Jewish soul. But nowadays an anti-Semite is somebody who is hated by Jews.
- Hajo Meyer quoted in Graeme Murray and Chris Watt, "Auschwitz survivor: 'Israel acts like Nazis' ",The Herald, January 24, 2010. Retrieved on March 27, 2010.
- Anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism flourish among the few, but those few are over-represented in Europe’s newspapers, its universities, and its left-wing political parties.
- World Jewry has been, for sixteen years, despite our policy, an irreconcilable enemy of Fascism. In Italy our policy has led, in the Semitic elements, to what can today be called a true rush to board the ship.
- Benito Mussolini, speech held in Trieste (September 18, 1938)[1]
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- All 10 of the world’s most anti-Semitic territories, indeed, are in the Middle East and North Africa.
- Marissa Newman, "The 10 most anti-Semitic countries and the 10 least anti-Semitic, according to a new global ADL survey", The Times of Israel, (13 May 2014).
- I think that a lot of anti-Semitism is historically a deflection of resentment of capital. It’s a deflection of that by the elite onto Jews, who are a convenient population to target.
- Naomi Novik, "Naomi Novik Talks Spinning Silver, Her Rumpelstiltskin-Inspired Novel" Paste Magazine, (10 July 2018).
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- I always say that racism is like pneumonia and anti-Semitism is like the common cold—everybody has it.
- Grace Paley Interview with The Paris Review (1992)
- Marx and the early French socialist, developed antisemitism ideals that have characterized much of the Left to this day.
- Dennis Prager and Joseph Telushkin, Why the Jew?: The Reason for Antisemitism, New York: NY, Touchstone (2003) p.123.
- I've long been intrigued by one of defining characteristics of the Corbybnites, which is often thought too rude to state plainly. They are, like their leader, very stupid. Nothing better illustrates this than a film intended to show how Labour's antisemitism scandal wasn't real, which deals obsessively with how Jews control British politics. See what I mean?
- Stephen Pollard "The only thing the 'Big Lie' exposes is a poisonous obsession with supposed Jewish power" CapX (20 June 2023).
- Following the cancellation of a screening of the documentary film Oh Jeremy Corbyn: The Big Lie at the Glastonbury Festival. See Big lie for the origin of the term.
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- It would be futile to deny that the Nazis built a vast mass of evil on a vast mass of prejudice. It would be equally futile to deny that strong prejudices against the Jews existed among Christians during the centuries before the Shoah. Since, moreover, the childhood of the European nations was passed under the tutelage of the clergy, we should not be surprised that these prejudices were, in part, ecclesiastically inculcated.
- The Holocaust was the product not of Christendom, but of Christendom's collapse. The destruction of Christendom effected (1) the rejection of Catholic natural law and (2) the rise of the absolute nation-state, previously impossible because popes could depose and counterbalance kings. Hitler, to be sure, contributed a neo-paganism and anti-Semitism all his own. But in mobilizing opinion and wielding power, he was helped more by these two innovations than by any Catholic doctrines.
- "You don't know what we've been through," she explained. "You think things are good. You think we're all safe. And that's when it happens."
"When what happens? Another Holocaust? Come on!"
She just shrugged.- Douglas Rushkoff: Nothing Sacred: The Truth About Judaism, ch. 2: "How We Lost the Plot"
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- We have to be clear that while antisemitism is a threat to Jews everywhere, it is also a threat to democratic governance itself. The antisemites who marched in Charlottesville don’t just hate Jews. They hate the idea of multiracial democracy. They hate the idea of political equality. They hate immigrants, people of color, LGBTQ people, women, and anyone else who stands in the way of a whites-only America. They accuse Jews of coordinating a massive attack on white people worldwide, using people of color and other marginalized groups to do their dirty work.
- The forces fomenting antisemitism are the forces arrayed against oppressed people around the world, including Palestinians; the struggle against antisemitism is also the struggle for Palestinian freedom. I stand in solidarity with my friends in Israel, in Palestine, and around the world who are trying to resolve conflict, diminish hatred, and promote dialogue, cooperation, and understanding.
- Zosa Szajkowski concluded his painstakingly researched article, 'The Jewish Saint-Simonians and Socialist Anti-Semitism in France,' by noting that try as he might, he could not find a single word on behalf of Jews in the whole of French socialist literature from 1820 to 1920.
- Dennis Prager and Joseph Telushkin, Why the Jew? The Reason for Antisemitism, Touchstone/Simon & Schuster (2003) [1983]), p. 128, from the 1947 research paper by Zosa Szajkowski, "The Jewish Saint-Simonians and Socialist Anti-Semitism in France."
- The anti‐Semite has chosen hate because hate is a faith; at the outset he has chosen to devaluate words and reasons. How entirely at ease he feels as a result. How futile and frivolous discussions about the rights of the Jew appear to him. He has placed himself on other ground from the beginning. If out of courtesy he consents for a moment to defend his point of view, he lends himself but does not give himself. He tries simply to project his intuitive certainty onto the plane of discourse. I mentioned awhile back some remarks by anti‐Semites, all of them absurd: "I hate Jews because they make servants insubordinate, because a Jewish furrier robbed me, etc." Never believe that anti‐ Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti‐Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past. It is not that they are afraid of being convinced. They fear only to appear ridiculous or to prejudice by their embarrassment their hope of winning over some third person to their side.
- Jean-Paul Sartre, Anti-Semite and Jew (1945), p. 13-14
- Following publication of the first edition of this book, some individual anti-Semites and anti-Semitic groups began to utilize parts of what Israel Shahak and I wrote about Jewish fundamentalists to justify their hatred of Jews. They alleged that by revealing ideas of Jewish fundamentalists we have confirmed generalizations about the "evil nature" of Jews. They have taken our criticism of Jewish fundamentalism out of context and have utilized it in an invalid manner for their ugly purpose. … It should be obvious that Israel Shahak and I abhor what these anti-Semites do but that we are not responsible for them or for what they do.
- Israel Shahak and Norton Mezvinsky: Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel, second edition, Pluto Press (1999), p. xiv. ISBN: 0-7453-2091-0.
- "I am a Jew." Those have been the words of the Jewish people for three millennia. Those were the words of the men, women and children of Masada. Those were the words of the followers of Bar Kokhba. Those were the words of Jews in Granada in 1066, and the Rhineland in 1096, and Khmelnytsky from 1648 to 1657, and Kishinev in 1903, in Hebron in 1929. Those were the words of Jews in Auschwitz and Treblinka. Those were the last words of Daniel Pearl. And those are my words, too.
- Ben Shapiro, in "I Am a Jew" (2023-10-10). Excerpt from "The Face of Absolute Evil" (2023-10-09), about the 7 October attacks. Also published in Jewish World Review, Jewish Press and The Daily Times.
- The anti‐Semite understands nothing about modern society. He would be incapable of conceiving of a constructive plan; his action cannot reach the level of the methodical; it remains on the ground of passion. To a long‐term enterprise he prefers an explosion of rage analogous to the running amuck of the Malays. His intellectual activity is confined to interpretation; he seeks in historical events the signs of the presence of an evil power. Out of this spring those childish and elaborate fabrications which give him his resemblance to the extreme paranoiacs. In addition, anti‐Semitism channels evolutionary drives toward the destruction of certain men, not of institutions. An anti‐Semitic mob will consider it has done enough when it has massacred some Jews and burned a few synagogues. It represents, therefore, a safety valve for the owning classes, who encourage it and thus substitute for a dangerous hate against their regime a beneficent hate against particular people. Above all this naive dualism is eminently reassuring to he anti‐Semite himself. If all he has to do is to remove Evil, that means that the Good is already given. He has no need to seek it in anguish, to invent it, to scrutinize it patiently when he has found it, to prove it in action, to verify it by its consequences, or, finally, to shoulder he responsibilities of the moral choice be has made. It is not by chance that the great outbursts of anti‐Semitic rage conceal a basic optimism. The anti‐Semite as cast his lot for Evil so as not to have to cast his lot for Good. The more one is absorbed in fighting Evil, he less one is tempted to place the Good in question. One does not need to talk about it, yet it is always understood in the discourse of the anti‐Semite and it remains understood in his thought. When he has fulfilled his mission as holy destroyer, the Lost Paradise will reconstitute itself. For the moment so many tasks confront the anti‐Semite that he does not have time to think about it. He is in the breach, fighting, and each of his outbursts of rage is a pretext to avoid the anguished search for the Good.
- Jean-Paul Sartre, Anti-Semite and Jew (1945), pages 31-32
- Anti-Zionism is all but indistinguishable from anti-Semitism in practice and often in intent, however much progressives try to deny this.
- Bret L. Stephens, A Despicable Cartoon in The Times, 28 April 2019, The New York Times
- Whenever a Jew is killed, it is for the benefit of Islam.
- Ahmad Sirhindi, quoted from Bostom, A. G. (2015). Sharia versus freedom: The legacy of Islamic totalitarianism.
- Jews in Medina are singled out as "men whose malice and enmity was aimed at the Apostle of God". The Yahūd in this literature appear not only as malicious, but also deceitful, cowardly and totally lacking resolve. However, they have none of the demonic qualities attributed to them in mediaeval Christian literature, neither is there anything comparable to the overwhelming preoccupation with Jews and Judaism (except perhaps in the narratives on Muhammad’s encounters with Medinan Jewry) in Muslim traditional literature. Except for a few notable exceptions... the Jews in the Sira and the Maghazi are even heroic villains. Their ignominy stands in marked contrast to Muslim heroism, and in general, conforms to the Qura'nic image of "wretchedness and baseness stamped upon them."
- Norman Stillman in Encyclopedia of Islam, "Yahud"
- As I always say, the "oldest hatred" didn’t get that way without an ability to adapt.
- Mark Steyn, The ‘Oldest Hatred', National Review, January 10, 2009.
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- We are up against a failure of Americans to take seriously the pitch Jewhating attained so quickly in Europe in the thirties, for example, because Americans think Europe and the thirties so far away. They know about evil Germans, sheeplike Jews, and heroic Americans, but are not taught to see the war against the Jews as a culmination to centuries of Jewhating. Americans are told lies about the base of Nazism, so that we imagine Jewhating goes with a lack of education: working-class people are-as with white racism in this country-blamed. We are not told of the doctors and doctorates trained in Europe's finest universities. For most Americans the Holocaust blurs safely, almost pleasantly, with other terrible events of the past, like Bubonic Plague in the Middle Ages. Nor have most Americans paid much attention to the persecution of Jews in the Soviet Union, or Argentina, or Ethiopia, unless an ideological point is to be scored against these nations.
- In Nice Jewish Girls: A Lesbian Anthology edited by Evelyn Torton Beck (1982)
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- The Jews were seen as the most immediate threat to racial purity inside Germany, and as the main motor of resistance outside the country. A policy of extreme anti-Semitism would accordingly be a central concern of the government in peace first and in war later. Furthermore, a key internal need was the urgency of increasing the birthrate of the allegedly better and reducing the birthrate of the supposedly inferior racial stocks within the German population, measures that required a dictatorial regime, which alone could in addition prepare for, and hope to succeed in, the wars a racial policy called for in external affairs. Measured by the criterion of feeding a growing German population with the products of its own agricultural land, the boundaries Germany had once had were almost as useless as those of the 1920s; and thus a revision of the Versailles Peace Treaty of 1919 could be only a propaganda excuse and never a goal of German policy. The vast reaches of additional land to be obtained would never be granted peacefully, and war was therefore both necessary and inevitable.
- 'Gerhard L. Weinberg. A World at Arms : A Global History of World War II, Cambridge University Press, 2005.
- There is no official anti-Semitism in Russia; anti-Semitism in Russia is a crime against the State.
- Chaim Weizmann. The Jewish People and Palestine. London: Zionist Organization, 1939. p. 7
- Until the end of World War II, there was little precedent in Islam for the anti-Semitism that was now warping the politics and society of the region. Jews had lived safely—although submissively—under Muslim rule for 1,200 years, enjoying full religious freedom, but in the 1930s, Nazi propaganda on Arabic-language shortwave radio, coupled with slanders by Christian missionaries in the region, infected the area with this ancient Western prejudice. After the war Cairo became a sanctuary for Nazis, who advised the military and government. The rise of the Islamist movement coincided with the decline of fascism, but they overlapped in Egypt, and the germ passed into a new carrier.
- Lawrence Wright, The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (2006), p 45
- Soloviev: Now, Golovinski, to begin with…I hate jews. They are a sly race who will creep in and destroy the purity of our Russian culture!
So, I want you to write me a piece on this subject…and make sure it makes a clear case! - Golivinski: Excuse me sir!
- Soloviev: Back so soon? What is it Golovinski?
- Golovinski: Here is the article you asked for.
- Soloviev: In only one hour? Let em read it.
Where did you get these official statistics? - Golivinski: Oh, I made them up! No one would dare to challenge them.
- Soloviev: Good work! From here on you will write for our regular campaign against the new modernization!
- Golvinski: Why that?
- Soloviev: All liberal, capitalistic, socialistic movements are directed by jews. We must expose them.
They are the anti-christ! - Golivinski: But sir, shouldn’t we keep this political?
- Soloviev: In Russia religion and politics are the same!
Our people will believe anything negative about the Jews! Go ahead boy!- Will Eisner, The Plot: The Secret Story of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, (10/2/2005), pp. 45-48.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer: You're talking about turning theory into a practical weapons system faster than the Nazis.
- Leslie Groves: Who have a twelve month head start.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer: Eighteen.
- Leslie Groves: How could you possibly know that?
- J. Robert Oppenheimer: Our fast neutron research took six months. The man they've undoubtedly put in charge will have made that leap instantly.
- Leslie Groves: Who do you think they put in charge?
- J. Robert Oppenheimer: Werner Heisenberg. He has the most intuitive understanding of atomic structure I've ever seen.
- Leslie Groves: You know his work?
- J. Robert Oppenheimer: I know him. Just like I know Walter Bothe, von Weizsäcker, Diebner... In a straight race, the Germans win. We've got one hope.
- Leslie Groves: Which is?
- J. Robert Oppenheimer: Antisemitism.
- Leslie Groves: What?
- J. Robert Oppenheimer: Hitler called quantum physics "Jewish science", said it right to Einstein's face. Our one hope is that Hitler is so, so blinded by hate that he's denied Heisenberg proper resources, because it'll take vast resources.
- Oppenheimer, written and directed by Christopher Nolan, as interpreted by Cillian Murphy and Matt Damon
- ↑ Il discorso di Trieste. archivioluce. Retrieved on 2021-01-04.
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