anti-Semitism

Appendix 3: Quotations on German anti-Semitism [Nietzsche and the Nazis]

[This is Appendix 3 of Nietzsche and the Nazis. Sources for the quotations are at the end of this post.] Appendix 3: Quotations on German anti-Semitism Martin Luther (1483-1546): “The Jews deserve to hang on gallows, seven times higher than ordinary thieves.” And: “We ought to take revenge on the Jews and kill them.”[189] Immanuel

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“Go back to the ovens!” shouted at Jews at a university in Canada

“Go back to the ovens!” shouted at Jews at a university in Canada, in the Toronto borough in which I was born. Quick thoughts: 1. Most Canadians are great people and will be appalled at this sub-human display. 2. The hostility was so bad that politicians from *both* sides of the major divide in Canadian

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The Revival of Nazism in Europe — It’s Not Just Racism [Good Life series]

An old specter is again haunting Europe — neo-fascist and neo-Nazi movements and political parties are returning to prominence. This feature in Britain’s The Guardian notes an increase in attacks on Jews in France, Germany, and the Netherlands. Further east and south Nazi-like parties are surging in the polls in countries like Hungary and Greece,

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A Nazi graphic against capitalism, communism, homosexuality, and the Jews

The microscope reveals symbols for the British pound and the American dollar, and for Jews, communists, and homosexuals (triangles). The poem at the bottom reads: Infectious Germs With his poison, the Jew destroys The sluggish blood of weaker peoples; So that a diagnosis arises, Of swift degeneration. With us, however, the case is different: The

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On anti-Semitism: valid or disgusting?

[This is Section 30 of Nietzsche and the Nazis.] 30. On anti-Semitism: valid or disgusting? The most repulsive sign of Germany’s decline, Nietzsche writes—and this may be initially surprising—is its hatred of the Jews, its virulent and almost-irrational anti-Semitism. Nietzsche, we know, has said some harsh things about the Jews—but again, that is a set

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