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Quotes About Jews

Given the religious nature and the emotional power of Leftist values, Jews and Christians on the Left often derive their values from the Left more than from their religion.
~ Dennis Prager
The Jews didn't like him because he threatened their religion. He was saying things that didn't go with the order.
~ Frederick Lenz
Through its appropriation of "texts of terror" and especially through the application of those texts to the Jews, the Christian religion created the conditions for the oppression of Palestinians.
~ Brian D. McLaren
We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs - we have no place to go.
~ Golda Meir
A hypocritical etiquette forces us to pretend that the Jews are powerless victims; and if you don't respect their victimhood, they'll destroy you.
~ Joseph Sobran
We plan to eliminate the state of Israel and establish a purely Palestinian state. We will make life unbearable for Jews by psychological warfare and population explosion. . . . We Palestinians will take over everything, including all of Jerusalem.
~ Yasser Arafat
Truman deeply sympathized with the plight of Europe's displaced Jews.
~ Debi Unger
There are of course also Jews who—intentionally or unintentionally—traffic in antisemitic stereotypes. When this seeps into the larger culture, it signals that it's okay for non-Jews to do likewise.
~ Deborah E. Lipstadt
According to Christian doctrine as it was taught for millennia, Jesus was crucified because, among other things, he threatened Jews' power and financial well-being.
~ Deborah E. Lipstadt
Antisemitism is not simply the hatred of something "foreign," but the hatred of a perpetual evil in the world. Jews are not an enemy but the ultimate enemy.
~ Deborah E. Lipstadt
The Soviet version of the Holocaust depicted the event as an assault by fascists on communists, not by Germans on Jews.
~ Deborah E. Lipstadt
Antisemitism is not the hatred of people who happen to be Jews. It is hatred of them because they are Jews.
~ Deborah E. Lipstadt
Since antisemitism affects Jews, some readers may be inclined to think that only Jews should be concerned. That would be a mistake. Jews, as the intended target of the antisemite, may indeed be more sensitive to it. Such is the case with any expression of particular hatred and prejudice.
~ Deborah E. Lipstadt
Also present in Charlottesville was Vanguard America, a group with increasingly strong ties to neo-Nazis. Its members believe that the United States is exclusively for white Americans and not for non-Christians, Jews, Muslims, or people of color. The car used to murder the counterdemonstrator sported a Vanguard America decal.
~ Deborah E. Lipstadt
fought to defend myself, to preserve my belief in freedom of expression, and to defeat a man who lied about history and expressed deeply contemptuous views of Jews and other minorities.
~ Deborah E. Lipstadt
There are ways of disagreeing with the policies of the Israeli government without sounding antisemitic. And blaming all Jews for something wrong that Israel has done—that's antisemitic.
~ Deborah E. Lipstadt
The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's descriptor, which has now been adopted by the European Parliament, identifies it as: A certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of antisemitism are directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/or their property, toward Jewish community institutions and religious facilities.
~ Deborah E. Lipstadt
Galicia. I contemplate the beautiful name as it unfolds, disclosing delicate, prancing, caparisoned horses and the lovely princesses riding them whose undulating red hair reaches to the carpet of flowers beneath the hooves. "You could always tell the Jews from Galicia by their red hair," my aunt says dreamily.
~ Deborah Eisenberg
Part of Creation. Back at the beginning of time you got your mud people, referred to as beasts 'cause they don't have souls. Okay, Adam jumped Eve and she begat Abel, the beginning of the white race as God intended. But then Satan in the form of a snake jumped Eve. She begat Cain and things got out of hand. Cain began fucking mud people, the women, and out of these fornications came the Edomites. And you know who the Edomites are?" "Tell me." "The Jews.
~ Elmore Leonard
The covenant with Abraham has a both/and rather than an either/ or focus: it is both for Jews and for gentiles, for in Abraham, "all the families of the earth will be blessed" (Genesis 12:3).
~ Amy-Jill Levine
Matthew tells us, through the genealogy, that the birth of Jesus will be good news not only to Jews but also to gentiles.
~ Amy-Jill Levine
Like a horrible nightmare, the abrogation of equal rights weighs upon us all, but especially upon those Jews who, like me, had surrendered themselves to the dream of assimilation.
~ Max Liebermann
Terrorism attacks Jews, but it targets all countries and Western values. Israel is just an hors d'oeuvre.
~ Avigdor Lieberman
My grandfather was Orthodox, and he was religious, but neither of my parents were. Of course, as they got older, it seems like they get more religious the older they get, even though they're still not practicing Jews.
~ Scott Ian