Earlier this year, the Israeli organization B’tselem issued a report accusing the Jewish state of implementing “a regime of Jewish supremacy.” The same phrase has appeared recently in a condemnation of Israel written by a group of Jewish-studies professors, an op-ed in a Connecticut news outlet, and a report from a scholar at the prestigious Brookings institution. Gil Troy notes the history of this ugly locution:
Jew-haters [have been obsessed by] Jewish “power,” as Jews endured centuries of powerlessness and persecution. . . . Nazis justified their mass murder of Jews by escalating the canard about Jews controlling the world into a struggle against “Jewish supremacy.”
In Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler warned Germans against “the movement for expanding Jewish power on a wider scale and finally subjugating the world to its rule.” . . . The Nazi propaganda rag Der Stürmer railed against “Jewish mastery,” while Washington’s Holocaust Museum houses a photograph of a Hitler Youth proclamation that “Adolf Hitler bricht mit seiner Bewegung die jüdische Vorherrschaft,” [meaning], “Hitler breaks Jewish supremacy with his movement.”
In 2003, on his way to becoming America’s leading white supremacist, David Duke also adopted this theme. In Jewish Supremacism: My Awakening to the Jewish Question, Duke describes his maturation as an adult who started wondering: “What was it . . . about the Jewish people that inspired such hate” over millennia? After dishonestly cherry-picking certain biblical and talmudic selections, he blamed “Jewish supremacism”—which he defined as “Jewish chauvinism, suspicion, and anger against Gentiles.”
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