I taught a course on the US & the Middle East, 1783 to the present, from 2003 until in retired after 2020. I averaged 60 studnets per year. I saw this new, fifth version of Jew Hatred, which is what it is, develop. The first year I taught I encountered 1 obvious antisemite. By my last semester I was seeing 3-6. In my early days as an academic, when I encountered an antisemite and asked about where they had picked up their views, the answer was usually family or friends. A German student who grandfather fought in Russia during WWII. At the end, when I asked the answer was always "Professor X." I also noted that the most frequently cited source for their papers was The Nation! That was the clue! Several discussions led me to understand that these students were led to antisemitism through Intersectionality. Victim groups had to hang together, lest they hang separately. The entire system prevents these groups from succeeding. The system is capitalism, and it has to go. Plutocrats were the enemy, and they were often depicted artistically as Jews. Even Bin Laden in his final years had shifted from discussion of Jews to Plutocrats. Among the victim groups were, of course, Muslims. Ergo, all other groups must support Muslims. Muslims are anti-Israel, at best, and far too often Jew Haters. But the other groups must support them, lest Intersectional unity be lost. Ergo, you have Gay's for HAMAS! Years ago I concluded, and began warning, that "Antisemitism has become the cover charge for entry into le Club Progressive." And so it has. I witnessed it.

@regularshiftrs3676

2 ай бұрын

Nice to read your comment. We are now aware of that. I was central left and now conservative. Historians conserve history. Lefties had made a "nice" clever coalition (forged alliance). My hope is that the peak is now and after it will be ridicularized. But we dont want to understimate more. Greetins from Portugal..My country have perhaps a majority of Israel supportees but in silence.

@majpalmer2158

2 ай бұрын

@@regularshiftrs3676 Wife and I were in Portugal last Fall. Great country. Great people. Great time.

@italianstallion389

2 ай бұрын

End the occupation and all of this ends. For 75 years this has been going on.

@regularshiftrs3676

2 ай бұрын

@@italianstallion389 end the attacks and the all other things we all know..and all ends

@regularshiftrs3676

2 ай бұрын

@@italianstallion389 did you saw or read what made the "okkupaxion" happen? Maybe this comment will be deleted. Im beeing canceled by yt wokeness. Just go read history

Thank you for your research! This should be shown in schools educating people about antisemitism.

@thewkovacs316

2 ай бұрын

it wont change a single mind

My Jewish family was distanced from Judaism. We considered ourselves Reformed ( even attended Church) but we were less than that. In any case, we never turned against Israel. 🇮🇱 I will travel there soon- June. My children insisted El Al. Ironically , my son with little Jewish education, is married to the best daughter in law & she is Frum. Your channel is educational & calming , especially during these pogrom times.

@RobespierreThePoof

2 ай бұрын

I must admit, I will never really understand why anyone would leave one religion only to join Christianity or Islam. The history of the Jewish people is a painful one, but the religion itself has a history with FAR fewer nasty blemishes that Christianity and Islam have. I just don't think I could ever join a faith that has, in its history, things like the Jewish getto, the inquisition, burning heretics at the stake, religious wars, countless spin-off cults, a child molestation epidemic, and so on ... Even the Calvinists, despite being described often as the "intellectual protestants" have an iconoclasm at the start of their history. But perhaps there is something I am missing.

@justinludeman8424

2 ай бұрын

​@RobespierreThePoof I have read some of your comments. Your knowledge and moral clarity predicate a commendable outlook.

Outstanding discussion for which this (non-Jewish) listener is grateful.

@HenryAbramsonPhD

2 ай бұрын

Thank you

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@Benamon9

2 ай бұрын

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@grahamfloyd3451

2 ай бұрын

I stand beside anyone who stands for truth. Here's a truth: the IDF has killed more than 7,800 children since October 7.

@italianstallion389

2 ай бұрын

If you knew the truth you'd be calling them out.

@User9681e

2 ай бұрын

Spread the truth and don't let UK get occupied by anti western ideologies like Islam

@missc2742

2 ай бұрын

I've been critical of Israel ever since I saw how etheopians and arabs are treated in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. You should have visited the less "nice" neighbourhoods.

This is a very important lecture. Thank you, Dr. Abramson

The topic of the last few videos, however relevant and necessary, is very uncomfortable to watch. Humanity can be so dark, it’s emotionally overwhelming for me personally to witness what we’re becoming.

@HenryAbramsonPhD

2 ай бұрын

Thank you for this thoughtful comment.

The 7% increase in support for Hamas amongst 25-34 year olds is very worrying.

@JonathanMoosey

2 ай бұрын

The support for Hamas in that age group is still in the minority but still worrying

@Simon.the.Likeable

2 ай бұрын

They need to do their homework to see exactly who has benefited since Hamas has been there.

@user-cq3qm4ps3z

2 ай бұрын

Pro-Palistine (or pro-two-state solution)) is not the same as pro-Hamas. FOX does not consider there to be a difference.

@JonathanMoosey

2 ай бұрын

@@user-cq3qm4ps3z Palestinians are not interested in a two state solution. History has proven this. The Palestinians just want to wipe Israel and Jews from the face of the earth. The Israelis were the ones pushing for a two state solution with little progress. So enough of your gaslighting.

@NetMensh

2 ай бұрын

⁠@@user-cq3qm4ps3z​​⁠​​⁠The question asked in the Harvard Harris poll (not FOX) as shown in the video states; “In this conflict do you support more Israel or more Hamas?”. The question is asked twice. In the earlier poll support for Hamas amongst 25-34 year olds is 29%, in the later poll it rises by 7% to 36%. Therefore showing a 7% increase in support for Hamas. The question asked wasn’t “are you pro-Palestine?” Hope that helps.

Professor, thank you for your research and understanding of history. I am 1/2 Jew 1/2 German, but raised Christian. A walking contradiction. I am also a person of prayer and as such, I seek truth and balance in understanding and perspective. You always provide this with your lectures. I thank you. I will never truly understand the horrific unwarranted persecution of our (Jewish side speaking now) people. It breaks my heart. I do have a question, why do the Palestinian people tolerate hamas? Is it fear? Partnership with them? Thank you again for continuing to educate us. Psalms 122:6

@HenryAbramsonPhD

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for the kind words. I'm trying to understand the reasons for the support as well, but I must note that it is not universal at all. Recent polls (hard to rely on them) indicate that support in Gaza is at about 37%, and there are many voices (mainly living safely in the west) who are openly critical.

@italianstallion389

2 ай бұрын

Occupied people tend to flock behind extremists. Which is why isrealie funds hamas. This ends if either if Palestinians get their own country and the west bank settlers give that land back, or it becomes one country with equal rights for all.

@RobespierreThePoof

2 ай бұрын

​That 37% figure, I believe, is from the same agency inside Palestine that also found around 80% support for the October 7 tactics. The contrast between the two speaks volumes. Hamas isn't that popular AS A GOVERNING party. But as a militant group that murders, r*pes and kidnaps J*ws? Apparently quite popular. This reminds me of an interview with a Gaza granny I saw once. She was asked why sweets were handed out to children after "martyr operations.". She saw absolutely nothing wrong with the practice. These are just a couple of the points of information which have entirely transformed my understanding of the conflict. I now feel foolish for not previously recognizing just how pernicious the political ideology at play in the Arab Levant really is. ​@@HenryAbramsonPhD

@RobespierreThePoof

2 ай бұрын

​@@italianstallion389you really need to stop reading Iranian propaganda. Do you enjoy being manipulated?

@michelles5439

2 ай бұрын

@@italianstallion389please don’t spread ignorance & foolishness. You’re only making the situation worse. Those territories are Arab occupied Israeli land. The fake Arab nationality of Palestinian was literally invented in 1964 by Arafat the first Palestinian, born in Cairo, Egypt.

I didn't know that there was a historical difference between Anti-Semitismus and antisemitism, with the hyphen being something lost along the way. Personally, I prefer to use the term jew-hatred / Judemhaß. It robs Arab jew-haters of the opportunity to say "But we are semitic too!" which is nothing more than a distraction technique. I recommend everyone start making the shift back to *jew-haters" given that the primary locus of the problem now is in the Muslim world with the West being the secondary arena now.

Shalom and be well

@HenryAbramsonPhD

2 ай бұрын

You too

I love the fact that a pope resisted the blood libel slander. I never get a chance to recognize a historical pope actually doing something moral.

@MitzvosGolem1

2 ай бұрын

the Pope Vatican recognized Palestine not Israel in 2015.

@erdood3235

2 ай бұрын

@@MitzvosGolem1 why did you say that?

@MitzvosGolem1

2 ай бұрын

@@erdood3235 Because evil church has also been against Israel since Salahadin Kurdish hero defeated Richard the lionheart christian crusader. He put us Jews back in Israel.

@menaceofnorthmemphis

2 ай бұрын

​@@MitzvosGolem1the Pope kisses the feet of world leaders literally to look it up 😂

@MitzvosGolem1

2 ай бұрын

@@menaceofnorthmemphis Child abuse rampant for centuries covered up by these people.

Excellent presentation. Thank you.

@HenryAbramsonPhD

2 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful

Just watched the lecture. Thank you for the videos, they have helped me learn a lot. Currently reading Benny Morris's "Righteous Victims" because of a recommendation from one of your other videos. Sending love from Istanbul.

@HenryAbramsonPhD

2 ай бұрын

Thank you. I hope you find it useful!

So glad I found your channel, a dispassionate view of history and what is going on right now. Many thanks!

Fairly, clearly, and well spoken.

You do important work at a critical moment.

🇮🇱👑✨️Israel is for💙ever blessed✨️👑🇮🇱

Hi Dr. Abramson, I am a nineteen year old Jewish Zionist and I am proud of my heritage. Am Yisrael Chai!

@HenryAbramsonPhD

2 ай бұрын

Am Yisrael Chai!

Shuhada is simply the plural of Shahid (martyr). Shahada is indeed one of the foundations of Islam, the testimony of faith. They named the square Shuhada.

@HenryAbramsonPhD

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for the clarification

@npgibson69

2 ай бұрын

"Martyr" is not really a great translation of Shahid. Like Hebrit, Arabic is based on triple consonant roots that can be modified into a noun, verb or adjective, etc. The root sh'h'd' means something like testimony. Thus the testimony that there is only one God. It can also be used for legal testimony, or documents like a diploma or certificate. There's probably not an exact English translation for Shahid, maybe "witness" would be a good interpretation. BTW, rasul doesn't mean prophet either, as it's usually translated. The word for that is nebi. Rasul means something more like messenger or apostle. This is a key distinction in Islam.

@commenceun

2 ай бұрын

​@@npgibson69 because Rasul comes from the same word of message, literally. 👍

Thanks from old New Orleans !

@HenryAbramsonPhD

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for listening

This has been “ eye opening “ Keep up the great courses Sir

@HenryAbramsonPhD

2 ай бұрын

Glad to hear it

Fascinating. Thank you Dr. Abramson! We will survive and triumph!

Shabbat Shalom! thank you Henry for this enriching presentation.

Thanks just doesn't cut it, Professor. I ❤ Israel, Israelis, the IDF, and all people of the BOOK. 🇮🇱🇺🇲🇮🇱🇺🇲🇮🇱🇺🇲🇮🇱🇺🇲🇮🇱🇺🇲🇮🇱🇺🇲🇮🇱🇺🇲

God bless Israel. Never Again! Thank you for your enlightening videos, Mr. Abramson.

I can't express just how incredible Jean-Paul Sartres book is. Thank you for recommending it in one of your previous videos. I picked up a copy shortly after.

Thank you once again- I learned a lot. You are an excellent teacher. Today raba:)

@HenryAbramsonPhD

2 ай бұрын

Thank you

Perhaps too late to ask a question, but is there any work being done to formulate a governing body for the Palestinians void of Hamas and the PA, post the war in Gaza?

@RobespierreThePoof

2 ай бұрын

I have not seen reports of this in the Israeli press. The problem is likely that the PLO in the West Bank is corrupt and fairly unpopular. It also released a horrifically jew-hating statement after October 7 which referenced the infamous Gharqad tree myth. (A Hadith that calls for the execution of Jews.) Israelis of all political parties can be found complaining that there is no party in Palestine for Israel to work with. That's a fairly intractable problem. I suspect the solution will come from outside Israel.

Very insightful and helpful. Thank you.

@HenryAbramsonPhD

Ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful

Thank you, professor. May your work help to alleviate the suffering of ignorance in this world.

@HenryAbramsonPhD

2 ай бұрын

Amen!

Dr Abramson, it would be interesting to see any statistics on antisemitism from 67 and 73. I realize you may have been partially sheltered growing up in a small town up north, but I remember cemetery desecrations and threats of letter bombs in Southwestern Ontario. Iirc, that was back in the day when Jewish communities, including my hometown of London, still produced yearly blue books…just wondering if that heralded the end of the public directory of members of Jewish communities?

To the those who are concerned about civilian deaths: what about the Nigerian Christians, the Somali massacres, Sudan? CNN , BBC are unfair in their reporting. CBN - Christian broadcast network - gives reliable news.

“They tried to kill us. We survived. Let’s eat.“ Doesn’t this keep happening? Is it destiny or something that education will change?

@HeilIsrael

2 ай бұрын

It’s 1 billion Muslims playing on the sidelines.

@606ak

2 ай бұрын

@@HeilIsrael and before that Germans and Spanish and French and British and Russians and Egyptians and Babylonians…

@mahirarubaiya3052

Ай бұрын

it's maybe gods plan

Professor, this was a very good presentation and I am glad you showed the many illustrations and also included that last point about the young Jewish woman who was a token Jew for the ProPal and what you explained about the setting/group there.

@HenryAbramsonPhD

2 ай бұрын

Thank you

עם ישראל חי

@HenryAbramsonPhD

2 ай бұрын

אמן

At about 6 minutes you said Israel controlled all the borders of Gaza What about the Gaza Egyptian border? It appears that the Gaza Egyptian border has been The Most Important border in terms of the growth of Hamas as a ruling organization and military power. I don't know why you have left this aspect of the Gaza enterprise out of the discussion. It seems very relevant.

@HenryAbramsonPhD

2 ай бұрын

You are correct, Egypt controls the southern border.

@WUB0105

2 ай бұрын

Hamas has tunnels going from Gaza into Egypt, so how much they control it is a sort of definitions question

@RobespierreThePoof

2 ай бұрын

​@@WUB0105 Egypt's relations with Israel are very frequently misrepresented. This includes the way the tunnels into Gaza are discussed. In fact, Egypt has been quietly collaborating with Israel to contain Hamas and islamists within Gaza. It destroyed multiple cross-border tunnels. It dug a trench. Since October 7th, they have resisted opening the border or welcoming refugees. Egypt has had free-flowing diplomatic backchannels with Israel for decades - ever since Israel returned Sinai to Egypt. The Egyptians just aren't very loud about it because they do not want to rile any Islamists within Egypt. The government actively fears an Islamist coup in Cairo. So they quietly fight Hamas.

20 years of dawah in the us university system. What did anyone expect? Don’t look too closely at the Qatari money. Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth

Respect from China, I stand with Israel

@HenryAbramsonPhD

2 ай бұрын

Thank you!

Country 1948 Today Algeria 140,000 50 Morocco 265,000 2000 Tunisia 150,000 50 Yemen 55,000 50 Syria 40,000 0 Egypt 75,000 40 Libya 38,000 0 Iraq 150,000 7 Turkey 20,000 100 From Jewish Population in Arab Countries.

@WUB0105

2 ай бұрын

think the numbers might be lower, actually

Fantastic lecture

@HenryAbramsonPhD

2 ай бұрын

Many thanks

Regarding the hostages that are alive, my theory is that to understand what's happening with them, you should look into the Japanese occupation of Korea during World War 2 and what was happening to the women of that territory to know what Gazans are doing with their hostages.

CRT pushes the idea that the dividing line between good and evil runs between groups. They push the idea that people are either oppressed or oppressors. This inevitably results in unjust judgments. The reality is that Dostoyevsky is right. The dividing line between good and evil goes right through the human heart.

You’re brilliant, thank you 🇮🇱🧡🎗️

I have to brace myself to learn this history. I trust your teaching implicitly, Dr. Abramson. But this is difficult to hear. At 73 I am for the first time facing this. Thank you so much for your measured and kind approach. Comforting and illuminating.

@HenryAbramsonPhD

2 ай бұрын

Thank you for the kind words.

Thank you professor.

Very informative and interesting, thank you. May HaShem continue to rescue you all from those who rise up to destroy you. Standing with you, always.

I’m of Jewish origin, I actually had to relocate in may due to antisemitism in the area that I lived in. It’s real , it happens and it’s awful. I thank you Henry for this informative and helpful in depth video.

thank you

@HenryAbramsonPhD

2 ай бұрын

You're welcome

Who made real tunnels to move around? Hamas, not the Jewish people.

This wave of antisemetism isn't only USA😮

@HenryAbramsonPhD

2 ай бұрын

Sad but true

Dr Abramson is an authority on the history Israel and has really helped shape my outlook since October 7.

Speaking as a secular, consider the possibility that both Hamas AND Lukid are taking extreme river-to-the-sea positions

@Simon.the.Likeable

2 ай бұрын

The reason why there will be no resolution and why the stronger side will win. Interesting, isn't it?

@dogbert52

2 ай бұрын

"Both siding" .... ued probably apply it to ww2 and ghengis khan

@erdood3235

2 ай бұрын

​@@dogbert52if the whites, west and USSR, really cared about the Jewish Holocaust survivors, than there wouldn't be a state of Israel

@mydogsbutler

2 ай бұрын

@@Simon.the.Likeable There is no way for either side to win. Even if far right Netanyahu ethnic cleansed Palestinians from the region as he wants, Hamas sorts would just keep up terrorist attacks in other countries. And other countries hostile to Israel would help. There is a solution like exists with all other conflicts.. compromise. The problem is to compromise both Hamas and Likud need to be out of the picture.

@mydogsbutler

2 ай бұрын

@@dogbert52 Hamas are nuts but Netanyahu isn't exactly stable either. He claims anti-war college kids are like Nazis. He accuses human rights groups, the UN, and much of the planet of being antisemetic. He has Kahanists as ministers. A Kahanist murdered Rabin for trying to make peace with Oslo. Netanyahu was pushing illegal settlements and peddling river-to-sea maps even before Oct7. He gives speaches referencing Amalek. He's unhinged. That you pretend not to notice says more about you than me.

What's the deal with antisemitism?

Professor, what is your opinion on the Marxist ideology roots of this new form of antisemitism? I think it neatly explains the growth of antisemitism within the younger population and on college campuses in particular.

It is heartbreaking and disturbing were live in times (again) that you Professor have to create such educational explanations as opposed to creating content on heartening religious truths. The rise in the acceptance of Anti-Semitic 120+ year old tropes and warped conspiracy theories is immeasurably troubling.

As always, Dr. Abramson, your lectures are enormously edifying.

@HenryAbramsonPhD

2 ай бұрын

Glad you think so

Thanks!

@HenryAbramsonPhD

2 ай бұрын

Thank you for supporting the research!

i was hoping for a more thoughtful presentation 🌲 I hope peace returns to the region soon

@TM-100

2 ай бұрын

What did you have in mind? Sounded thoughtful to me 🤷🏼‍♀️

@TM-100

2 ай бұрын

All the slogans don't advance peace 🕊️

@clifb.3521

2 ай бұрын

@@TM-100 i felt the information presented was one sided, & lacked conflicting information & was generally incomplete

@clifb.3521

2 ай бұрын

@@TM-100 I dont know what your comment means

Good morning. Thanks for sharing this lecture. I have a proposition and I would like to know your opinion. Maybe I am wrong but I guess Hagia Sofia was an Christian Byzantine Church and now it is a secular Museum. In my opinion, the same should have happened with the Al Aqsa in Jerusalen and become a secular Museum or at least an Ecumenical Church

@HenryAbramsonPhD

2 ай бұрын

Don't really have an opinion on that, sorry.

Table of the Jewish population in Muslim countries In 1948, there were between 758000 and 881000 Jews (see table below) living in communities throughout the Arab world. Today, there are fewer than 8,600. In some Arab states, such as Libya, which was about 3% Jewish, the Jewish community no longer exists; in other Arab countries, only a few dozen to a few hundred Jews remain.

A fine presentation overall, although the first 25-ish minutes were not really a discussion on antisemitism per se and might have been better in a separate video. I did find the survey questions potentially misleading, because the questions asked related specifically to Hamas and not to the Palestinians as a whole, so the wording appeared to have been crafted in order to obtain a specific outcome. There may also have been a slight slip of the tongue, where I think you mentioned a picture as depicting Jews, and not Romans, carrying off looted articles from the sack of the Temple, but I'd need to go back trough the presentation to check. Nevertheless, after our chats on previous content, I was encouraged to see your acknowledgement that the Jewish protestors against indiscriminate murder in Gaza are acting fully in accordance with their Jewish faith, specifically in obedience to God's commandment not to kill. As with the other religious people around the world, it is a Jew's first priority to obey the will of God, unless I am mistaken? Politics rarely seem to represent the wishes of the people nowadays, so I would tend to separate religion and politics on that basis.

@HenryAbramsonPhD

2 ай бұрын

No one should justify indiscriminate murder. I do not believe that is the case with the IDF attempts to get the hostages back and destroy Hamas.

@seamusbyrne7820

2 ай бұрын

@@HenryAbramsonPhD I'm glad that you made that first statement. What do you base that latter belief on? And as an historian, if Germans in the 1930s/40s based their beliefs only on the heavily-propagandised Deutsche Wochenschau and similar media, was it plausible that an unimaginable evil could have been wrought by their government on an innocent people, in the name of the German people, with nothing done to stop it? Are there any lessons that historians should be teaching us such that such a thing could never happen again? With the hostages, not being military myself, I don't understand how flattening an area with bombs is expected to deliver living hostages from that area. What measures are being taken to ensure the safety of those hostages? Also, how are the Hamas members being distinguished from the innocent civilians? I'd have expected the IDF to have a strong moral obligation to provide clear information as to safeguards used to avoid the killing of non-combatants, if what they are doing has moral intentions which are consistent with God's commandment not to kill. Can you point me towards this information?

@erdood3235

2 ай бұрын

Religion being separated from politics is a new phenomenon. Religious institutions, like the Russian Orthodox church and catholic church, have been organs of political domination. The roc was the one that ordered Jews to be expelled from Russia in the 14th century, and when Russia conquered eastern Europe, called for the Jews in the conquered territories to be expelled, but Catherine the great compromised to just limit us to the pale of settlement.

Professor, thank you for this thoughtful and informative presentation. I think that in the short run, the term Jew hatred better describes the current situation than Wilhelm Marr's "antisemitism". As a simple son of Noah, I have never been able to understand the historically ever present Jewish "self-hatred". I am intrigued by your developing 5th version of Jew hatred that you label as "anti-Israelism". In your 4th version of Jew hatred, the Jew could not cease being a Jew by renouncing his religious Judaism, since it was a racial theory. So, will the Jew be able to "fit in", by becoming a "token Jew", and therefore, a "good" Jew, who hates all Jews who support Israel? Perhaps, this is yet to be determined, but if were Jewish, I would think this hope would be desperate. The track record of the Left's "useful idiots" does not give one hope for the future of such people.

@MehWhatever99

2 ай бұрын

Thank you. Well put.

Youth will change later their opion to learn the truth.

Thank you as always. Brilliant. 😊

@HenryAbramsonPhD

2 ай бұрын

Thank you. Difficult topic.

Your conclutiom as an historian is so jewish it makes me smile. All we hear from politicians is how the enimy is at fault and we must fight against them, in jewish history whenever there was a problem we looked at ourselves and tried to see hoe we got ourselves into this bad situation and how we can get out of it.

Thank you thank you thank you

Shalom and Likium

💯

I’ve removed my previous comment which was admittedly rude. My apologies. I will listen more before possibly commenting again.

@HenryAbramsonPhD

2 ай бұрын

Ok

Thank you, Dr. Abramson for this excellent history and analysis. My primary concern with your lecture is just the first and last part in connecting anti-Israel sentiment to a history of antisemitism (or, whichever word needs to take its place for greater utility.) But it needs to be discussed. I would not have self-described as anti-Israel last September, and I was deeply disturbed by Oct 7th. My own anti-Israel sentiments started in the weeks following Oct 7th starting with the preparation for the ground invasion. Then I started researching the history of the modern state of Israel and the pro-Israel rhetoric, and I agreed with statements like, "this didn't happen in a vacuum." I would disagree with the Harvard student groups' statement that Israel bears "all" responsibility, however. Like you, I am concerned about civilian deaths in Gaza. I keep watching your videos to stay grounded in history and to get a reasonable alternate viewpoint on the current conflict (even if this is not your comfort area, as you said.)

@HenryAbramsonPhD

2 ай бұрын

There is room to be critical of Israel without being many antisemitic. The key issue is leaping from viewing one government with disfavor to declaring the country itself illegitimate.

@MarcosElMalo2

2 ай бұрын

The IDF is responsible for their conduct of the war. Hamas is responsible not only for the October 7th attack, but for then choosing a battlefield that would maximize the deaths of civilians in Gaza. I do not think the IDF has conducted itself as it should. My impression comes from early videos that came out of reservists destroying private property. I was shocked that the IDF had lost its discipline over the reservists. The IDF should hold itself to a higher standard. As far as the greater context to which you refer, I agree, this didn’t happen in a vacuum. But that context is complicated. It should not be oversimplified to making Israel the villain.

@cjimmersive6955

2 ай бұрын

​@@MarcosElMalo2 When I trace back the sequence of events, I feel like the creation of Israel is a root cause of the conflict, and ethnic nationalism is a problem from the start. That's a criticism of Zionism, Arab nationalism of the early 20th century and Palestinian nationalism from the 1960s to today. That's not to say that disrupting the lives (and God forbid security) of millions of people is the way to fix this. If you get the Likud Party and Hamas (i.e. hardline nationalists) out of the way, and start working on trust and redress for the displacement and violence of the last 75 years, maybe there's a chance at a one state solution. I don't think that one state solution should be a Jewish state; it should be a state that is also the Jewish and Palestinian homeland. All parties need to recognize each other's right to be there. This would be incredibly hard work, but what else is there? This little soap box I am on could be interpreted as declaring the country (in its current form) illegitimate, and Dr. Abramson's implication is that this could cross into antisemitism or Jewish hate. I don't think I have done that, but I welcome honest feedback.

Decent people are watching and are appalled - I truely believe most Americans stand with the Jewish people!

@HenryAbramsonPhD

2 ай бұрын

Polls suggest you are correct.

@italianstallion389

2 ай бұрын

They don't stand with the idf though.

@victorydaydeepstate

2 ай бұрын

You conflate Zionism with the Jewish faith. Illogical. Propaganda.

@victorydaydeepstate

2 ай бұрын

​@HenryAbramsonPhD I support Israeli citizens, I'm against my tax money being spent on foreign wars. If you don't support Mossad tactics... you're Hitler. Wrong. I'm a non-hyphenated American who is sick of the Government's debasement of currency by printing Money out of thin air which pays for Israeli weapons with an inflation inflamed lower standard of living for non-hyphenated American citizens.

I'm a republican, and from the left I sometimes hear statements like, "MAGA is a racist slogan, because when was america ever great for black people? You want to bring back the good old days of jim crow". Now the left wants me to believe that "from the river to the sea" is complex and requires nuance to understand, and it's certainly not calling for genocide.

@mahirarubaiya3052

Ай бұрын

ok cool but still when was america great ?

Gen z may moderate a little, but by the age of 24 your political beliefs are fairly solidified statistically. Israel needs to decouple from the US, an obvious statement that shouldn’t even have to be made, yet it must be made again and again and again.

@HenryAbramsonPhD

2 ай бұрын

Troubling thought.

@MarcosElMalo2

2 ай бұрын

Why does it need to and how would it accomplish such a decoupling.

@RobespierreThePoof

2 ай бұрын

My experience is that people tend to mature politically between their 20s and 40s, developing more nuanced political views.

@andrewcriscione

2 ай бұрын

@@MarcosElMalo2 So that Israeli security is not dependent upon United States Midwest electoral politics and how many Arabs there are in Michigan. If any country on earth can figure out how to make a bullet, it’s Israel. I’m sure you guys will figure it out. But you better start figuring it out now, before you don’t have a choice.

At the time of the Muslim conquests of the 7th century, ancient Jewish communities had existed in many parts of the Middle East and North Africa since Antiquity. Jews under Islamic rule were given the status of dhimmi, along with certain other pre-Islamic religious groups.[21] As such, these groups were accorded certain rights as "People of the Book". During waves of persecution in Medieval Europe, many Jews found refuge in Muslim lands,[22] though in other times and places, Jews fled persecution in Muslim lands and found refuge in Christian lands.[23] Jews expelled from the Iberian Peninsula were invited to settle in various parts of the Ottoman Empire, where they would often form a prosperous model minority of merchants acting as intermediaries for their Muslim rulers.

"Shahaadah" means not martyr, but "martyrdom" or "bearing witness." So in Islamic prayer, you chant "ashhadu an laa ilaaha ilaa 'llah", "I testify that there is no God but God". "shahiid" is "martyr" and its plural is "shuhadaa'."

@jacovawernett3077

2 ай бұрын

Martyrdom does not mean to bear witness. L'chaim. God is my Father and rabbi. He spoke fifty sentences to me from above to my ear. ( I was born March 11th in Bethlehem 61 years ago. I just look young) His first nine sentences were 8.4.2015 in the morning. 11.17.2015, Eve Beach, Waikiki early evening. I couldn't find a book reading so I sat under the stars alone. God asked me, What side of the blade are you on. I answered answered, the side of the righteous my words are my sword. He then showed me my ascension to Heaven. He said, Make Israel one. You are anchor. His last sentence to me was four years ago after many months. He said, You are Princess Messenger of God. In Aramaic, Amira Malaka Elah. Shukrun for bearing witness. God is kind. Can you interpret God's sentence, "Make Israel one." Blessings to you. L'chaim

@bennettbullock9690

2 ай бұрын

@@jacovawernett3077 I may have not been clear. In the Arabic language, it has acquired these two meanings. It acquired them from Greek, where "martyr" originally meant a witness (Greek oratory frequently addresses the "martyres") and then with Christianity, it meant someone who died for the cause. Through Syriac, this was mapped to the Arabic root "sh-h-d", where it obtains its current meaning. Although Arabic has this originally Greek/Christian double entendre, Hebrew does not. The word for "witness" in Hebrew is "'ed", as in the Talmud's "'edim zomemim", and the word for "martyr" is some derivation of the word "qadosh", "holy", although it does not necessarily mean someone who dies for a religious cause.

@jacovawernett3077

2 ай бұрын

@bennettbullock9690 Thank you for clearing that up. Language is so fascinating. It tells so much about history. One of my favorite things is pointing out how God works thru people. 11.11.2015, Honolulu, Nimitz Highway, 18th floor in the morning. God spoke one sentence to me from above after weeks. He said, "You are rain. I walked out to the balcony, stretched my arms to the sky, and said, "It's time for a rainbow. Immediately, a double rainbow appeared beside the building and reached out to the Pacific Ocean. A neighbor lady I didn't know asked me, "How did you do that. I laughed and said, "I am not a solo act. God is not a solo act. No one is a solo act. A month earlier, I sent an Israeli couple to fly over Keanu Reeves grandmother's house to see a rainbow. When they returned, they told me they saw a halo rainbow over her house. They asked me, How did you know. I told them by the grace of God I just knew. Here's a doozy. 12 hours before the Gaziatep Turkey earthquake I was watching a video on AL Jazeera youtube about the Palestinians. I wrote that God said, Make Israel one. ( it means to bring peace and reconciliation between Jew, Christian, Muslim, cousins by Abraham.) A muslim brother answered, Jews and Christians will be humiliated by God. I answered, No. We are all God's children. No one sticks a metaphorical rock in God's throat. The priphat Muhammad knew this. Sometimes it feels like 500,000 Gazans are holding the world hostage. The earth will quake. And it did quake. It killed about 40,000 people of the muslim religion.

@jacovawernett3077

2 ай бұрын

@bennettbullock9690 by the way, when God said, "You are anchor. My birth last name appeared behind my eyes. A t spun around and made an anchor. I didn't know what it meant symbolically. No one I asked knew, so I researched. It's the symbol of Christianity before the crucifix. I didn't grow up under Wernett. I grew up under my stepfather's name. Families are always complicated. Take Abraham, for example. He brought Isaac to be sacrificed and jealousy exploded.

PLEASE REPLY. I've missed the live stream and I have a real question.. it might seem conspirational, but i genuinely would like to know: In a sept. 2023 UN meeting, Netanyahu showed a map of Israel without Palestine or Gaza. There are also videos of... ultra ortodox jews, high-fiving soldiers and entering Gaza, stealing and talking about building houses there... Israel has a really bad track record of building on Palestine territories (internationally recognized, but 0 enforced)... so... isn't that what Netanyahu wants? an Israel with no Gaza? Maybe this was his plan all along? This is what it looks like from outside... i'm not including the jewish people in my conspiracy, just Netanyahu and his close cabinet. Of course, any of this doesn't excuse people harassing other people for any reason! I'm also not supporting Hamas or any other group that thinks that its god is better than my god. Also, aren't they the SAME god? Allah and the god from the Torah and from Christianity's old testament, aren't they the same???

@TM-100

2 ай бұрын

Have you learned history of Gaza? REAL history? Why wasn't it Palestine in 1948? No one was complaining then. Why? Jews lived there throughout the ages, but now it's only Arabs. Did you ask why? Israel has Arab citizens but "Palestine" can't? Why not? Jews bought & owned property in these areas pre & post State. The slogans are flat with no dimension. People want simple, black & white understanding but the problem isn't that simple. Peace is possible with true acceptance

God help your people. I hope the truth will win.

@HenryAbramsonPhD

2 ай бұрын

Amen

Yom San Remo Day/ San Remo Day April 25 (but 6 Iyar is Hebrew anniversary and coincided this year with Yom HaAtzamut pushed up one day for a Double Independence Day!) - I don't know why it isn't included with Israeli High Holy Days of Memorial, Independence, and Jerusalem Day (which is also Memorial for Beta Israel) because as I've gathered from that Bar Ilan professor on Jews for Judaism and Jonathan Pollack on Machom Shiloh the significance of San Remo is at least 3 key things: A) Ottoman Turks heard the argument of their Arab coreligionists and Am Yisrael and decided to transfer the title deed of sovereignty to Am Yisrael! B) League of Nations made Balfour int. Law! C) when U.N. formed they made all League of Nation laws U.N. law!

@HenryAbramsonPhD

2 ай бұрын

Interesting

That's ironic? Strange? That we were compared to a vulture in Jew hatred "antiart"(?) considering I recently heard from R. Ephraim Palvanov that the nesher is not eagle but the great bird of Eretz Yisrael is the griffon vulture I think it was- maybe it's just a coincidence

@HenryAbramsonPhD

2 ай бұрын

I don’t quite get what you are saying

@davidsavage6324

2 ай бұрын

@@HenryAbramsonPhD like maybe it was a jab at our "great eagle" of prophecy and Scripture was actually a scavenger

@MarcosElMalo2

2 ай бұрын

@@davidsavage6324 That’s an argument you have to develop if you think it’s plausible. Show your evidence and the counter evidence that led you to your conclusion.

Hey. Not sure if typing this is advisable or not. I just wanted to wish you continued safety in these troubling times.

@HenryAbramsonPhD

2 ай бұрын

Thank you. Much appreciated

It’s not hard to get the impression that antisemitism is the handiest kind of bigotry-perhaps excepting misogyny in the longest view. However, all things considered, generalized antisemitism sparked by the Israel-Gaza conflict seems like amateur scraping the bottom of the barrel. Can todays’ extremist, neo-right desperation really manifest in another organized programme of racial/religious hatred? Unlike the antisemitism of, say, the Nazi regime, the kind of antisemitic reaction to the conflict we see today is distinctively trite and hackneyed, not deeply cultivated in Christological mythology like in the emergent-modern Europe nine decades and more ago. Then again, maybe today’s hyperbole warns of historical repeat. After all, we’re all astounded by the current devolution of social intercourse in so many ways: how quickly narratives, even patently false ones, can be advertised and tacitly believed by countless millions almost immediately. We’ve never had this omniscient carousel of bigotry-targets before. I sometimes feel like antisemitism simply has seniority and, because of that, other abominations of humanity are sidelined, though more vicious in terms of length of conflict and number of casualties. It’s the irrationality, the crazy dissonance that creates the fear demagogues thrive on. My wife, who is Jewish, has been feeling somewhat differently. She feels- for the first time in her eight decades of life-real fear since the Gaza/Israel conflict began. At first I tried to calm her: this is Vancouver, sweetheart, there are always protests around here -right now university students are protesting the Gaza-Israel conflict, but it could just as easily be against fish-farms, against logging old-growth, against First-Past-the-post, against safe-injection sites for street-drug users, &c. It took months to cool her off, probably because I never saw her like this before-but I had to learn something, too, probably something I’m not so swift at. She was rightly alarmed to see 24/7 police presence around the two synagogues just a few blocks away. Her fear started to escalate; I really tried not to blow it off as unreasonable but, after all, she is third generation atheist, indeed, her parents were card-carrying Canadian communists, and her family had little to do with Judaism except for ‘cultural events’-usually with a trade union bent. And she certainly doesn’t appear Jewish in any discernible way. But of course our granddaughter enjoys the secular activities at the local Peretz centre. I soon realized that this was the nucleus of my wife’s fear of rising antisemitism, such as it is here in BC. Antisemitism is so old, the basic narrative so ingrained that there is no distinction between religious and secular Judaism. Still, for a while I thought my wife’s anxiety was too emotional, too irrational. I eventually came to feel differently. Man!-it took a while but, finally, an acquaintance posted a poem that really helped us turn the corner: to crudely paraphrase, when somebody demands you stake all to support either Hamas or Netanyahu, you simply side with peace. This really helped us a lot. Now we can disapprove of both the antisemitic provocateurs which plainly infiltrate what should be a peaceful protest FOR peace, AND at the same time decry unnecessary police brutality toward university students who, in our country, should have a right to protest peacefully. Now we feel les agents provocateurs -the ‘River to the Sea’ agitators we see at many university protest camps -are proving themselves less and less effective the louder they get. In spite of the deep and darkest of histories the bigots try to reinvigorate, their audience is prone to change the channel much more quickly than audiences have ever been before. The hate, as loud as it is, doesn’t seem to be as penetrating as it used to be. It has become apparent to my wife and me that certain elements are trying to pick a fight any way they can: it hardly matters who is opposed to whom. Now I understand my wife’s initial fear and she my initial scepticism: the kind of antisemitism we see lately is-at least for the present-hackneyed and ham-handed, and likely to be as inspiring as graffiti. It’s disrespectful to compare this with the Shoah and the antisemitism that plagued Europe for centuries. Even at their strongest, neo-Nazis and Hamas are proving to be weak. We should be concerned if they gain strength, but until then-if it ever happens they do-, we need to stay rational, work for peace and, especially, reconciliation. Now we better understand that hatred can explode in any direction, that certain elements are trying to reignite antisemitism as terrible as it was nine or ten centuries ago in a politically, historically, and ethnically troubled continent. Ulterior motivations are more evident now than ever. How do I know she and I have met in the middle? Both life-long New Democratic Party supporters (not without difficulty, at times), we recently agreed to pen a joint letter to the federal NDP leader, Jagmeet Singh, to ask him to reel in some of his caucus who wear keffiyeh and other Palestinian regalia into the House of Commons and propagate what we find unhelpful rhetoric. I never-not for the many decades I’ve lived with and loved this woman-would have expected we would do something like this-we used to be very independent! In this sense today’s antisemitism has really shocked us into taking an unexpected course. But it has also awoken a sense of objectivity with respect peace and love amongst all people. Finally we made it, though we ache every day to see the war continue. We just pray-in our way-that peace happens soon. We feel part of a majority which some consider too quiet, too noncommittal. Thank you so much for your level-headed analysis of history-such a terrible one. We all need what you offer. Bless you. All the best, GSD (&FR)

Its ironic the campus protest got more attention than the actual conflict, they got what they wanted after all, all the attention.

@Simon.the.Likeable

2 ай бұрын

Yes, a distraction like the destruction of the Iranian Consulate in Syria and its aftermath. It is "Look, over there!," a re-direction of the world's attention.

anti-Semitism is alive and well in MN in hiring practices for Sabbath observers. All under the guise of Minnesota nice.

It is possible to be pro-Palestine, pro-Israel, anti-Hamas, and anti-Israeli extremism all at the same time. It appears the vast majority of the world thinks the same.

@HenryAbramsonPhD

2 ай бұрын

You are correct.

@ColtraneTaylor

2 ай бұрын

👍✌

@thewkovacs316

2 ай бұрын

what is "israel extremism"?

@user-cq3qm4ps3z

2 ай бұрын

@@thewkovacs316 The ICC and the majority of the countries in the UN seem to know what it is.

@WUB0105

2 ай бұрын

it is also possible to not understand the situation in Israel-West Bank-Gaza, and not understand what pro-palestine means. Even if you are anti-Hamas, what about Fatah/PLO/Islamic Jihad? The PA have not managed to rule the West Bank, and have proved themselves to be incapable. That is why they dont do elections, and if they did, Hamas would probably win it. Like thewkovacs commented, when you address anti-Israeli extremism , if you claim that " the vast majority of the world thinks the same", that will depend on what "anti-Israeli extremism" means to the world. In the context, I wonder if you really mean ceasefire, or what? Israel is united on the Gaza war. The need for the war, the goals for the world, unites Israelis. They make the sacrifices, sending their young soldiers to war, some of them not returning. Young 19 -20 -21 year old young men (and some women)

Dr Abramson, I love your work and find you to be very objective, but the fact is, with things such as the clean break memo, or AIPAC, there is definitely a level of power there that is uncomfortable to talk about, an to deny such influence will further inflame the situation

Are the anti-Semites in America mostly Arab and/or Musilm? I'm an agnostic "European American" (I know stupid to have to say that), and don't know one person who is antisemtic (I live in S. FL where a lot of Jewish people also reside).

Jews of Arabia before Islam Main article: Jewish tribes of Arabia Jewish populations have existed in the Arabian Peninsula since before Islam; in the north where they were connected to the Jewish populations of the Levant and Iraq, in the Ihsaa' coastal plains, and in the south, i.e. in Yemen. There were three main Jewish tribes in Medina before the rise of Islam in Arabia: the Banu Nadir, the Banu Qainuqa, and the Banu Qurayza. Banu Nadir was hostile to Muhammad's new religion. Other Jewish tribes lived relatively peacefully under Muslim rule. Banu Nadir, the Banu Qainuqa, and the Banu Qurayza lived in northern Arabia, at the oasis of Yathribu until the 7th century, when the men were sentenced to death and women and children enslaved after betraying the pact made with the Muslims[34] following the Invasion of Banu Qurayza by Muslim forces under Muhammad.[35][36]

Young people want to be part of a movement or are afraid to be outside of the collective. Islamists have invested greatly in the area. Islam and Hamas know they are have no solid ground for their claims and as so invest even more heavily on deceit.

52:46 so is it right to call her? No respect for such a token

when did anti isreal becom anti jew. or when did anti slaughte become anti jew

@HenryAbramsonPhD

2 ай бұрын

See the last half of the video

@chrisclassical7

2 ай бұрын

@@HenryAbramsonPhD i do understand your position, i have watched many of your youtube videos but i have reached a stage where the mere mention of the word/phrase antisemitism turns me off. i remember how after 911 the whole world was with america and full of epmthy for what it gone through, then bush and cheney decided to hit the revenge button and it wasn't long till america became almost universally disliked if not hated. october 7th 2023 was a similar event. the whole world was with israel and then Netanyahu and gaza happened and the whole world turned against israel. it is not antisemitism, it is a disguist at israel's actions as a so called nation state. i feel that the title of this video is misleading and that any decent person who isn't anti israel in the present moment is either blind and deaf or merely masquarading as decent.

@MarcosElMalo2

2 ай бұрын

@@chrisclassical7 Hamas chose the battleground. It chose a battleground that would maximize civilian death and suffering.

@chrisclassical7

2 ай бұрын

@@MarcosElMalo2 the world has moved on so far from october 7th. perhaps you haven't. but the world has seen a slaughter playing out on television and social media. israel is now the beast.

@helderet4756

2 ай бұрын

​@@chrisclassical7 Stay away from Islam and communism

The Academia needs to be defunded

@RobespierreThePoof

2 ай бұрын

You're on a university historian's KZread channel.

I've noticed in many debates post 10/7 the use of the term blood libel, particularly by Rabbis, to dismiss any untruth, even some that don't necessarily rise to the same level of seriousness or are not based in antisemstism...do you worry that this "cheapens" the true history of actual blood libel accusations?

@HenryAbramsonPhD

2 ай бұрын

I don't use the term lightly myself.

@thewkovacs316

2 ай бұрын

if you claim that israel purposefully kills children....that is a blood libel

I'm half way through this video, and you seem to have missed out the elephant in the room in the historic Jew hatred, Rabbi- Islam!

@HenryAbramsonPhD

2 ай бұрын

Not a Rabbi, just a regular guy.

@AshKhazJew

2 ай бұрын

@@HenryAbramsonPhD oh sorry Henry, my apologies.

Stupidness is allways looking for someone innocent to destroy. Dont worry. Be strong and healthy.

@HenryAbramsonPhD

2 ай бұрын

You as well

@karlschreiber9286

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for respondung Dr. Abramson. Good to hear you

In your lessens you mentioned that there were many different political groups among the jews during the 1st Century but only 2 groups after the Bar Kokhba revolt. I am deeply concerned about the possibility of the same happening now and in that meaning the censorship and of different humanitarian (like you said: they do it out of fundamental good will =Love) political points of views. I mean to be pro Hamas is totally not acceptable. Israel is a state like every other and has a right to exist and a per that definition a right to defend itself. So I hope that Benny Gantz stays strong because I think he is right, there needs to be a solution and a plan (all 6 of his points) to end that horrible war. I unconditionally stand to the words of Mickey: In Gaza, in Tel Aviv, all children deserve to live. Bring them home alive and let them home now.

The reason why the graph @ 20:55 shows the maintained persistence of Gaza protests over the seven month period is that the war is an ongoing event. The killing of George Floyd was a singular event so public interest faded arithmetically over time. Once the war ends the protests will similarly fade over time. I don't know why this was a difficult concept to grasp.

The KZreadr China uncensored just suggested a big financial support for the Pro-Palestinian from China.

@HenryAbramsonPhD

2 ай бұрын

China presents an unique challenge in this context, I understand.

Its always been there

@HenryAbramsonPhD

2 ай бұрын

Sad but true

@RobespierreThePoof

2 ай бұрын

I was caught off guard. I didn't expect it. I was definitely not alone. Sam Harris has said the same in his podcast.

Thank you for this great presentation. As a follower of Yeshua I certainly don't agree with what the image of the Strasbourg Sisters represent. I see Yeshua and his teachings which his Talmidim preached as a natural extension of 1st century Judaism. I believe "Christendom" as a product of Constantine to be the antithesis of what Yeshua and the early believers taught. It's unbelievable how "Christians" could follow a Jewish messiah and yet hate the Jewish people. The B'rit Chadashah certainly does not condone such.