Essays on Anti-Semitic

Fascism and National Socialism

Political theorists, historians and and scholars have long tried interpreting and defining fascism but the definitions have either been too narrow or too wide as each interpretation of fascism is distinct and based on the ideological and political leanings and thoughts of the scholar or the theorist. According to Roger Griffin, fascism is "a genus of political ideology whose mythic core in its various permutations is a palingenetic form of populist ultra nationalism". He goes on to say that the fascist ideology has three core components- the myth of rebirth, decadence and populist ultranationalism. Paxton in his book, The ...

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The God squad group, mainly made of boys in junior and senior years, uses the 9/11 attacks as a rallying point for combination of white supremacist, racist, anti-Semitic, ant-Islamic, anti-immigrant, ant-gay, nee-fascist dogma mixed with a good dose of anti-abortion and fundamentalist Christian diatribe. The group catches the attention of the administration when they show up at school all wearing their uniforms and distributes the first edition of their weekly "newsletter". The” newsletter” contains highly offensive diatribes on how it is the "the duty of all true Americans to fight against the forces trying to destroy our country". The ...

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Maps can be very instrumental in the description of a given geographical period. The most interesting thing about this description is that it is seemingly limitless. This means that maps can be used to describe a wide range of factors that exist in a given geographical zone for example population or the structure of the land in terms of topography and the general outline of the structures of the land if they are natural or manmade. Thus maps are very instrumental as far as the description of a given place is concerned. The following essay focuses on a map titled anti-Semitic incidents in Europe ...

Introduction

Over the course of history the Jews in the diaspora have come under a lot of political, economic and cultural persecutions. This mainly occurred in Europe. This discrimination led up to the infamous holocaust and the gas chambers in Auschwitz where millions of Jews died under the rule of Nazi Germany led by Adolf Hitler. This made the Jewish community to think twice about returning back to their mother land. Various past and present Nobel Prize winners have been Jews. The aim of this paper is to review and analyze the history of the Jewish community as represented by the ...

‘They don’t care about us’ is Michael Jackson’s fourth single in the album: History; Past, Present and Future, Book I. Although the song was released in 1996, it remains a controversial piece among the songs that Michael Jackson composed. In the United States of America, the song raised eyebrows after the media scrutinized the anti-Semitic lyrics which Jackson used. After such a thorough scrutiny, Jackson opted to alter the lyrics and re-do the song again. On his part, Jackson aged that the media and the public had misinterpreted the song’s context, either deliberately or unintentionally. According to ...

Adolf Hitler was born in a small Austrian town, Branau Am Inn, on the 20th of April 1889. His father, Alois Hitler, was a senior customs officer in Austria while his mother – Klara – descended from a poor peasant family. In his early school life, Adolf had great intellectual potential and most of his colleagues admired him for his superb leadership qualities. However, his earlier stardom faded in the latter years of his schooling – in secondary school – when competition got tougher making him leave formal education in 1905. At the age of 18, Hitler moved alone to Vienna – the capital of Austria, to ...

Introduction

The Holocaust, a Greek work, meaning 'killed by fire', refers to the systematic mass persecution and genocide of the Jews executed by the Nazi Party under the leadership of Adolf Hitler throughout Germany and German occupied territories across Europe. Jews were not the only victims of the holocaust, which claimed the lives of millions other including disabled people, gypsies, homosexuals and the war prisoners. Infamous for bringing the Jewish race near extermination, the holocaust accounts for the loss of the lives of "eleven million innocent victims" in total, including about 6 million Jews and 5 million non-Jewish Nazi victims. The ...

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INTRODUCTION “He [that is, Antonio] hath disgraced me, and hindered me half a million—laughed at my losses, mocked at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated mine enemies—what’s his reason? I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes?” (Merchant of Venice, 3.1.42-46) The above lines were borrowed from the famous speech made by Shylock in William Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice. This speech by Shylock was his attempt at demonstrating his humanity and to encourage the audience to sympathize with his condition as a person ...

Is Racism And Anti-Semitism Still A Problem In The United States?

Introduction Over the years, racism and anti-Semitism has been a significant negative society issue that is aimed to attack a particular race of tribe in regards to their cultural affiliations. Prior to the First World War, the issue of racism was still a sensitive issue as slavery depicted the cruelest act of racism. In an argument by Eliav, Miriam & Ziegler(2009) racism and anti-Semitism has been in existence since the first steps of humanity as the minority groups were discriminated against. The same sentiments on the practice have been carried forward to the modern century as many people still hold discriminative ...

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Although decades of numerous incarnations have slightly diminished the stature of the vampire, the horror, seductiveness and mystery associated with it remains. Over the years, several themes have been associated with the vampires depicted in various films. The dominant metaphorical representations have been animal appetite, sex, evil and venereal disease. In F. W. Murnau’s Nosferatu, the vampire, unlike those in similar films, is unattractive and ghastly yet the fascination that grips those around him is remarkably disturbing. In this context, several metaphors emerge. This paper presents the metaphoric functions of the vampire in the film Nosferatu. The ...

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Introduction The Holocaust refers to the mass persecution and genocide of the Jews carried out by the Nazi Party under the rule of Hitler throughout Germany and the territories under German occupation. Not only Jews, Holocaust also claimed the lives of disabled people, homosexuals, Romani populace and prisoners of war. Holocaust is infamous for nearing extermination of the Jewish race with about 5.5. to 6.1 million Jews killed in the massacre. The mastermind of the holocaust was Adolf Hitler who shifted the religious anti-Semitism to racial and ethnic anti-Semitism making use of the mass sentiments against the Jews ...

5) During the 19th Century, it was commonplace for conservative and reactionary opponents of the French Revolution like Joseph de Maistre to ‘blame’ the Enlightenment for its ‘excesses’, particularly the Great Terror that occurred under Maximilian Robespierre in 1792-94. Certainly the Catholic Church was extremely hostile to the Revolution because it lost a great deal of power and property in France after 1789, and it continued to fight the same battles against its liberal and radical enemies until well into the 20th Century. For their part, the Enlightenment philosophers like Voltaire had been especially critical of the Church and had ...

The anti-defamation league was formed by Israel & International Civil Rights Education & Outreach. This league was formed with the main purpose of stopping the defamation of Jewish people as well as securing justice and fair treatment to all people. This has however developed over time to include other services like scrutinizing and exposing extremists and hate groups which are then dealt with accordingly by the relevant authorities. The league also monitors hate on the internet; provides expertise for domestic and international terrorism as well as fostering interfaith relationships (Adler, 2008). This is very important because it enhances the peace and ...

Introduction

Adolf Hitler’s impact in modern history is indelible. His reign of terror over Germany, his desire to conquer Europe and world and his murder of millions of Jewish people has made him a detestable subject. At the same time, the acts of evil associated with his regime made future generations aware of ill effects of racism – as seen in Hitler’s unjust antagonism against the Jews. Yet, questions still remain behind the main purpose of what he did in Germany. Nevertheless, there is no doubt that Hitler’s hatred of Jews has ...

Hate Crimes in North Carolina

Hate crimes are among the major type of crime committed out of bias and act of discrimination. In the United States, hate crimes prevail because of the differences in ideologies and cultural beliefs. However, the reasons and method of committing hate crimes vary from one state to another. In this paper, North Carolina would be the center of the topic surrounding hate crimes because of the many factors that would point out the state to be one of the places plagued by such crime. The definition and quick overview about hate crimes would be presented together with statistical data ...

Adolf Hitler and the Nazis never made any secret of their hatred for the Jews, or their desire to expel them from Germany and expropriate their property. Although the actual physical extermination only began during the war, the American government and media were well aware that it was occurring, but both chose to downplay and minimize this event. Part of the reason was that the public doubted the veracity of the atrocity stories and compared them to British propaganda during World War I. More significantly, the majority of Americans held anti-Semitic views, and these actually intensified during the Great ...

Total war was the product of modern, industrial society and the tremendous advances in science and technology that were applied to the development of new weapons like the machine gun, the submarine, poison gas, the airplane and the atomic bomb. To be sure, warfare had always been brutal and atrocities were commonplace long before the invention of modern weapons, but in the world wars of the 20th Centuries, all of the industrial, scientific and economic power of advanced societies were applied to warfare, while the distinctions between civilians and soldiers disappeared as cities were carpet bombed out of existence. ...

Introduction

Hitler created anti-Semitic laws and policies in 1933-45 because his entire career in politics from 1919 until his suicide in 1945 was based on a racist and anti-Semitic worldview (Weltanschauung) as well as 19th Century Social Darwinism and the belief that some individuals and races were supermen and others subhuman or Untermenschen. Certainly he never made any secret of his ideology, which could be found in Mein Kampf and his other writings. He ordered the extermination of the handicapped and mentally ill in Germany in 1939, which continued up to the end of the war and many of the personnel ...

The scope of this thesis shall be limited to explaining why the anti-Nazi Germans, Croatians, and Hungarians supported Hitler’s anti-Semitic agenda despite the fact that they did not subscribe to the same ideology. Despite the fact that history largely pins the blame on the Nazis for the Jewish holocaust in Europe, questions have risen about the role played by the ordinary citizens in perpetuating the injustice. Specifically, the thesis shall be concerned with what compels the masses to follow and to accept narcissist leaders such as Adolf Hitler. Many historians might argue that most Germans, Croatians and Hungarians ...

Occupy Wall Street is a continuing series of protests that were started by a Canadian lobby group called the Adbusters. The protests begun on 17th September, 2011 in Zuccotti Park which is located in the financial district of Wall Street in New York (Stelter 1). The main issues that the demonstrations highlight are corruption, economic inequality, undue influence of large organizations, and high rates of unemployment. Occupy Wall Street is a movement that intends to support a creative strategy for economic justice in the United States of America.

Background

Though the Occupy Wall Street campaign begun officially on 17th September, 2011, its origins can ...

Now in the early twenty-first century we tend to associate racist attitudes with out-moded and old-fashioned beliefs. The Merchant of Venice and Othello can, therefore, present challenges to modern readers and audiences because, to a certain extent, Shakespeare presents relations between the different ethnic groups in a negative way: both plays contain characters with extremely racist attitudes which modern audiences are likely to find objectionable and highly offensive. The burning issue for readers and audiences is how far Shakespeare endorses the racist attitudes of the societies he portrays. This essay will show that, although both plays contain characters with racist attitudes, ...

In his book, Fascism, Richard Griffiths discusses how this word is an over-used term in its modern sense, specifically discussing how it relates to the ideas of: “authoritarianism, to ‘control freakery’” and how it can also “imply violence, extremism or racism; or the term can be applied to the political Right in general.” Griffiths adds that these and a “wide range of other attributes, however, made up ‘fascism’.” (Griffiths 1) Following World War One, the rise of fascism intensified in Germany, specifically, due to their nationalistic pride. When Hitler rose to be chairman of the Nazi party in 1921, Germany ...

Sadly a holocaust is still possible. There have been two events since the |Holocaust of World War two which show that humanity’s ability to hate and kill each other in a systematic way is still possible. All over the world different groups hate each other, based on centuries' old prejudice – often to do with racial or religious differences: until we start to see that, as human beings, we have more in common with each other than we have differences. I think a Holocaust involving Jews is less likely because of the economic and military power of the state of Israel, but ...