Not all Catholics hate Jews. I don't. Were not Jesus, Mary, Joseph, and all the apostles Jews? Surely the Muslims represent a much greater threat to world peace and our freedom of religion than do the Jews.

"Pray for the peace of Jerusalem, and peace for the whole world."

--a sign I saw outside a synogogue in New Orleans

I understand that argument, Paul, and I subscribe to the sound Catholic doctrine of supersuccessionism (sp?) that the Catholic Church is the New Israel and the New Jerusalem, faithful Catholic Christians the New Jews, and the Mass the New Passover. But this excessive hatred many Catholics have had against the Jews down through the centuries is way out of line. True, they rejected their Messiah and King but the Jews certainly aren't the only ones who don't believe in Christ. They are small in number, always were, and whatever threat to Christian civilization they pose, past and present, is greatly exaggerated by many.

In an evil world, where the very existence of the Church is threatened by socialists, secularists, sexual libertines, Muslims, Communists, and Fundamentalist Protestants, to worry about the weak and miniscule Jewish threat would be like being in a swamp and worrying about the sand fleas and ignoring the alligators.

No one can deny that the Jews,by and large, are highly intelligent and extremely skilled at business. Yes, they seem to be everywhere, yes, they seem to dominate certain industries, true, they don't believe in Christ, but they are a paper tiger, a minor irritation, certainly not nearly the threat the Muslims or Communists or secularists or Fundamentalist Protestants pose. Brazil is now 40% Fundamentalist Protestant, not 40% Jewish. Let us learn where the real threat is.

What has sustained Judaism all these centuries since Christ? Persecution of them! They rally to each other because of this. In today's world the error of Indifferentism (the belief that one religion is as good as another) has infected the Church. Ironically Judaism has the most to fear from Indifferentism---if one teligion is as good as another, why be a Jew, especially a passionate Jew? If one religion is as good as another, Goldstein and Shapiro will start eating ham sandwiches. (Does anyone know of any Jew who actually abstains from pork?)

Had medieval Catholics yawned at the Jews instead of getting so excited by the Jews, perhaps all, or most, of the Jews could have been converted long ago and could have become at least nominal Catholics.

Jews are, at present, our staunch allies in the jihad Muslims fight against the rest of the world because of the Israel situation. That could change. During the Middle Ages, especially in Spain, they tended to side with the Muslims. But in the ongoing centuries-old Christian-Muslim struggle, it doesn't really matter whose side the Jews are on---they are in such small number that they're hardly even a factor.

The Jews are small in number and not much of a threat to anyone. The Muslims raid Christian villages throughout Africa and sell the people into slavery, often sexual slavery. I repeat my earlier analogy---never mind the sand fleas, concentrate on the alligators.

Did Jews engage in slave trading in the past? Maybe, but the important thing is they don't do it anymore. To blame the Jews for some slsve trading they did in 1707 is like still blaming the Catholic Church for having inquisitions five hundred years ago, or still blaming Americans for slavery, or still blaming modern Germany for the Nazi atrocities. All this is in the past.

But jihad, slave trading, stoning rape victims, terrorism, sharia law---these aren't things the Muslims did 500 years and are long forgotten. All of this still is very much a part of today's Muslim belief and practice. The Muslim threat is real. The Jewish threat is non-existent.

Ok this is probably where you misunderstood. At no point was I implying that the Jews were a bigger threat to civilians than the radical Muslims are and were with regards to terrorism, or even the slavery you mentioned in Africa. My whole beef with the Jews, particularly with the zionists, slave traders, money lenders of the past and present, media and political oligarchs is their influence. Do you or do you not believe the Jew has more influence and control of the US policy in the Middle East? Do you or do you not believe the Jews have more influence over the media and banking industry industry here and the entire Western world?

I'll totally understand that you could care less that the Jews were major players in the African slave trade, but be consistent in your reasoning and be just as indifferent to any Nazi atrocities that occured during WWII

"Weak", "Minuscule" The Jewish population is less than 3% of the US Population. How exactly is it that 44% of the Supreme Court , is comprised of Jews?

Nobel Prizes have been awarded to over 881 individuals,[2] of whom 196 - over 22% - were Jewish or people of Jewish descent,[Note 1] although Jews and people of Jewish descent comprise less than 0.2% of the world's population [3] (or 1 in every 500 people). Overall, Jews or people of Jewish descent have won a total of 41% of all the Nobel Prizes in economics, 28% of medicine, 26% of physics, 19% of chemistry, 13% of literature and 9% of all peace awards.[4]

What's even more of a paradox is how some atheist kooks on here come to the rescue of these so-called persecuted chosen people of God.

AHA Council Issues Policy Resolution about Jews and the Slave Trade
AHA Staff, March 1995

In January 5, 1995, during the AHA's annual meeting in Chicago, the Council of the Association passed the following policy resolution relating to the alleged role of Jews in the slave trade:

The AHA deplores any misuse of history that distorts the historical record to demonize or demean a particular racial, ethnic, religious, or cultural group. The Association therefore condemns as false any statement alleging that Jews played a disproportionate role in the exploitation of slave labor or in the Atlantic slave trade.
The AHA Council's action was taken in response to a statement on this issue submitted to the Council by historians David Brion Davis (Yale Univ.) and Seymour Drescher (Univ. of Pittsburgh), noted experts on the history of slavery and antislavery movements. The Council decided to publish the Davis-Drescher statement, along with its own policy resolution, in the March 1995 issue of Perspectives. In addition, the Council's policy resolution and the Davis-Drescher statement were released to the press on February 8, 1995. The Davis-Drescher statement follows:

During the past few years there have been a number of egregious assaults on the historical record in institutions of higher learning and at educational conferences. These assaults implicate Jews as a dominant group in the Atlantic slave trade and the enslavement of Africans in the New World. The claims so misrepresent the historical record, however, that we believe them only to be part of a long anti-Semitic tradition that presents Jews as negative central actors in human history. In such scenarios, Jews are the secret force behind every major social development from capitalism to democracy, every major cataclysm from the Medieval Pandemic of the plague through the French and Russian Revolutions to the collapse of Communism, and now, incredibly, appear for the first time, as the secret force behind slavery. Unfortunately, the media have given the latest charges wide currency, while failing to dismiss them as spurious. As professional historians, who have closely examined and assessed the empirical evidence, we cannot remain silent while the historical record is so grossly violated.

Atlantic slavery was an intercontinental enterprise extending over nearly four centuries. Ethnically, the participants included Arabs, Berbers, scores of African ethnic groups, Italians, Portu guese, Spaniards, Dutch, Jews, Germans, Swedes, French, English, Danes, white Americans, Native Americans, and even thousands of New World people of African descent who became slaveholding farmers or planters themselves. Since Portugal and Spain barred Jews from their empires, and since, by the 16th century most of the Jews who weren't either killed or converted in Western Europe had fled east ward, it was impossible for Jews to play more than a marginal role in a vast system that attracted tens of thousands of pagans, Muslims, Catholics, and Protestants. Even in Holland and the Dutch colonies, where Jews were allowed to make their main "contribution" to New World slavery as merchants and planters, they always formed a minority. Similarly, Jews played only a nominal role in the slave system in the American South. Never more than a tiny fraction of the white population, they never formed more than a minuscule proportion of slaveholders.

n preference to your dodgy website sources about the role of Jews in the American slave trade, I'd go for this one. It's from The American Historical Association:

That counts as an individual instance of a Jewish person selling slaves. No one claims that Jews didn't participate in the slave trade - only that their part in it was not disproportionately large and dominant as your antisemitic conspiracy blogs claim.

In sum, early America’s Jewish inhabitants began with a set of plans and expectations they ultimately jettisoned because of the realities they encountered in the New World. We may conclude that they were pioneers and innovators who not only forged new directions for Jews in the modern world generally, but also contributed to the slow but steady evolution of democracy in the United States of America.

If excoriated everywhere else in New England for its embrace of religious toleration, religious freedom was probably one of the calculations that drew the Jewish newcomers to the small colony, though the potential for overseas trade at Newport was perhaps decisive. Accordingly, they engaged in commerce, established a cemetery in Newport in 1677, and were augmented by an additional ninety or so settlers in the early 1690s