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Source: https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-902326
Why Do They Always Blame the Jews?
(Jerusalem Post) Duvi Honig - France defeated Morocco 2-0 in a World Cup quarterfinal. The Jewish people had nothing to do with it. Yet within hours, crowds in European cities were chanting, "Hamas! Hamas! All Jews to the gas chambers." In The Hague, police were pelted with bottles. Fires were set in Amsterdam. Rioting broke out on Edgware Road in London. A North African team lost a soccer match, and the immediate reflex was to call for the murder of Jews. Why is it always the Jews? A soccer match, a pandemic, an economic crisis, a war, an assassination, a wildfire, an election - somehow, someone finds a way to blame the Jews. After the assassination of Charlie Kirk, conspiracy theories spread online claiming that Israel or the Mossad was responsible. We have watched this pattern for two thousand years. When the Black Death swept through Europe, Jews were accused of poisoning wells, and Jewish communities were burned alive for a plague they were dying from alongside everyone else. During the Spanish Inquisition, Jews were accused of corrupting the faith and were expelled, tortured, or murdered. Every generation invents a fresh reason and attaches it to the oldest target. There are 15 million Jews in a world of more than eight billion people - less than 0.2% of humanity. Yet this tiny people are routinely accused of controlling nations. If Jews truly possessed the extraordinary power attributed to them, would they have spent centuries being expelled from country after country? Would Jewish schools and synagogues around the world require armed guards? Would Israel, a country smaller than New Jersey, have spent most of its existence fighting for the right to exist? The writer is founder and CEO of the Orthodox Jewish Chamber of Commerce.