Excerpt from this day’s program:
…Gobbledygook. Antisemitism as a word arose after European Christians had lost their faith. That barred them from continuing to see and hate Jews as Christ-killers, but they still hated them and antisemitism was born in the same years as Darwinism in an attempt to formulate a kind of biological, anthropological theory of race and racial characteristics that made the presence in Europe of Jews obnoxious. In this 19th century climate, the Jewish people was repeatedly not referred to as a people or nation, but a race. The Jewish race was described as a mongrel, gypsy race of many peoples. In fact, this was Hitler’s complaint. He hated the Jews who did not care about race but were out to pollute the German bloodstream with their genetic filth and inferiority… |