00:19 - Antisemitism: The Greatest Hits
Diodorus: “as a consequence of having been driven out [of Egypt], Moses introduced a way of life which was to a certain extent misanthropic and hostile to foreigners”Tacitus: "again, the Jews are extremely loyal toward one another, and always ready to show compassion, but toward every other people they feel only hate and enmity."
Philostratus: "The Jews have long been in revolt not only against the Romans, but against all humanity; and a race that has made its own a life apart and irreconcilable, that cannot share with the rest of mankind in the pleasures of the table nor join in their libations or prayers or sacrifices, are separated from ourselves by a greater gulf than divides us from Susa or Bactra or the more distant Indies."
The Emperor Julian: “The philosophers bid us to imitate the gods so far as we can. … But what sort of imitation of God is praised among the Hebrews? Anger and wrath and fierce jealousy”
Luther: “be on your guard against the Jews, knowing that wherever they have their synagogues, nothing is found but a den of devils in which sheer self-glory, conceit, lies, blasphemy, and defaming of God and men are practiced most maliciously and vehemently…”
Gibbon: "a single people refused to join in the common intercourse of mankind. The Jews… emerged from obscurity… and multiplied to a surprising degree… The sullen obstinacy with which they maintained their peculiar rites and unsocial manners seemed to mark them out a distinct species of men, who boldly professed, or who faintly disguised, their implacable hatred to the rest of human-kind."
de Mirabaud: "Not only did all the nations despise the Jews; they even hated them and believed that they were as justified in hating as in despising them. They were hated because they were known to hate other men; they were despised because they were seen observing customs which were thought ridiculous."
Voltaire: "In short, we find in them only an ignorant and barbarous people, who have long united the most sordid avarice with the most detestable superstition and the most invincible hatred for every people by whom they are tolerated and enriched. Still, we ought not to burn them."
Kant: "Nor can it ever be otherwise among the Jews that all estimation for other men, who are not Jews, is totally lost, and goodwill is reduced merely to love of their own tribe, under which they are wont to cherish one another according to the principia adopted, and receive the more credit, the more the agent approaches to a maximum of expediency, deals falsely, is lucky in turning a profit, or possesses cleverness, cunning, and craft."
Schopenhauer: "Till then, [this refugee race] lives parasitically on other nations and their soil; but yet it is inspired with the liveliest patriotism for its own nation. This is seen in the very firm way in which Jews stick together… and no community on earth sticks so firmly together as does this. It follows that it is absurd to want to concede to them a share in the government or administration of any country."
Disraeli: “If the reader throws his eye over the provisional governments of Germany, and Italy, and even of France, formed at that period, he will recognize everywhere the Jewish element.”
Marx: "The Jew, who is merely tolerated in Vienna for example, determines the fate of the whole [Austrian] Empire by his financial power. The Jew, who may be entirely without rights in the smallest German state, decides the destiny of Europe. While the corporations and guilds exclude the Jew… the audacity of [Jewish] industry mocks the obstinacy of medieval institutions. … [It is] a hypocritical situation when, in theory, the Jew is deprived of political rights, while in practice he wields tremendous power and exercises on a wholesale scale the political influence which is denied him in minor matters."
But of course, all these commentators and thinkers from different times and cultures have, for some mysterious reason, been seized with a peculiar shared psychopathy - or maybe they were just jealous. Or in the case of Jews critical of Jews, like Disraeli or Marx, or today's Gilad Atzmon, presumably they're just "self-hating."