pejorative term used for a Jewish person that holds antisemitic views From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A Self-hating Jew is a Jew who is antisemitic.
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The phrase “self-hating Jew” was created by Theodor Lessing in the 1930s.[1] He was trying to figure out why Jewish intellectuals liked to criticize Judaism.
Some people think Saint Paul was a self-hating Jew who left his people and did bad things to other Jews. Others disagree.[2]
In 1903, Otto Weininger, a Jew who converted to Christianity, wrote a book called Sex and Character which called Judaism “the extreme of cowardliness” and Christianity "the highest expression of the highest faith".[3] He complained that Judaism was too feminine, had bad ethics, and hurt family.[3]
Adolf Hitler used some of Weininger’s ideas for his propaganda.[4]
In the 1930s and 1940s (and also later than that), Zionists called Jews who opposed Zionism “self-hating Jews.”[5] Theodor Herzl used the phrase “anti-Semite of Jewish origin”.[5]
Daniel Burros was an American Jew who joined both the American Nazi Party (ANP) and the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). Both organizations are openly antisemitic, and Burros kept his Jewish identity a secret.[6] After having joined the ANP in the 1950s, he left over conflicts with George Lincoln Rockwell and joined the Ku Klux Klan.[6]
In 1965, despite receiving death threats, a journalist named McCandlish Phillips discovered that Burros was Jewish and wrote an article about it in the New York Times.[7] Burros killed himself the same day the article was published.[6]
Anti-Zionist Jews have criticized the concept of “self-hating Jews.” They argue that this term is used to accuse people of antisemitism.
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