Word: anti-jewish
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...Christians who pioneered the Passion as theatrical entertainment back in the Middle Ages. What came to be called Passion plays were harder edged than the Gospels, dropping Jesus' earlier teachings on tolerance and love to focus on his moment of supreme self-sacrifice. They also imbibed the malignant anti-Jewish spirit of their age, when peasants believed that Jews mixed the blood of Gentile children into Passover matzos. Consistent with such prejudice--and with the black-hat, white-hat needs of early dramaturgy--Passion plays presented Jews as money-grubbing Christ killers, a dramatic rendering that enjoyed a centuries-long...
...major think tank of the Arab League, in Abu Dhabi—described on its website “as the fulfillment of the vision of Sheikh Zayed.” The Zayed Centre holds regular lectures and symposiums, and produces publications that spew anti-Jewish and anti-American rhetoric. American extremist Lyndon LaRouche told an audience that the United States was involved in the attacks of September 11, 2001. Umayma Jalahma, a Saudi professor who has declared, “The Jewish people must obtain human blood so that their clerics can prepare for holiday pastries...
...connections with the Ku Klux Klan or other racist organizations that demean women or homosexuals. So why is it acceptable for Harvard to accept money from a man who does not recognize the legitimacy of an entire nation, religion, culture, tradition and people? During a time of rising anti-Jewish rhetoric within Europe, the Arab world and even in our prestigious universities, it is imperative that we acknowledge the realities in which we live...
...What’s more, many on the CSU executive openly supported the rioters for shutting down a “war criminal,” and the council immediately offered to pay legal fees for those charged with violence. Meanwhile, the victims of aggression, who were taunted with anti-Jewish remarks, kicked and spit on were ignored...
...either a buffoon or an obvious monster. The first choice trivializes his crimes; the second lets viewers smugly conclude they could never make the same mistake as those evil, stupid Germans. Star Robert Carlyle (The Full Monty) avoids both traps. His Hitler is a humorless paranoid whose anti-Jewish rants are laughed off by his comrades in the trenches of WW I. But after the war, he discovers his gift for rabble-rousing. He is an artist of grievance, and in bitter, between-the-wars Germany, that is enough to gain power--that, plus luck and savvy p.r. (which includes...