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== "Pushed Into"? ==
<span class="wikied-assignment" style="font-size:85%;">— Assignment last updated by ] (]) 18:45, 25 April 2023 (UTC)</span>


I'm not sure that this makes sense:
==Extinct pagan antisemitic tropes?==
I wonder if it would be a good idea to include anti-Jewish tropes that were used in pre-Christian times. The reason they're not in the article now is because most of them fell dramatically out of favor after Christianity caught on.


"pushed into marginalized occupations, such as tax collection and moneylending"
E.g., at one point it was extremely common to attack Jews as disloyal for not engaging in ] like most other civilizations did. Since Christianity also rejects emperor worship, this line of attack mostly died out when paganism did. Similarly, circumcision was frequently invoked by Greeks and Romans to portray Jewish men as sexually abnormal; this trope lost most of its appeal with the rise of Christianity (which worships a circumcised savior) and even more so Islam (which actually adopted the practice for itself). Pagans also ridiculed the Jews for looking to messiah figures for salvation, which is ironic since Christians would later do the _exact_ opposite by attacking the Jews for rejecting Jesus as messiah.


I've been unable to find any evidence that anyone was forced into tax collection or moneylending, and therefore this feel like a bit of artistic license.
Since these archaic forms of antisemitism mostly went extinct, it might seem less relevant to include them in the article now. The only time they appear nowadays is in the rhetoric of some fringe-y neopagan types, particularly those with a Nietzschean bent like ].


Even today, there are many professions which are, as a practical matter, only accessible by members of more affluent classes. Despite this, few would accept that the lower classes are "pushed into" drug dealing, pimping, and prostitution. Rather, they are considered willful choices.
However, including these early antisemitic tropes would certainly help illustrate just how very _different_ classical (pagan) society and its mores were from ours. In a lot of ways, secular modernity has more in common with Christendom than either of them do with your typical ancient pagan society. (This, incidentally, is one of the things that really irks guys like BAP). ] (]) 06:03, 1 July 2023 (UTC)


The number of professions which jews were banned from represented a relatively small percentage of professions overall, and I think it's a reach to suggest that there were few alternatives other than loan sharking. Especially to such a degree that they were "pushed" into it.
:It seems within scope and reasonable to include material on this. Yes, prejudice and therefore tropes did not begin only with Christendom. ] (]) 09:08, 1 July 2023 (UTC)


With regards to tax collection, why would a municipality which distrusts Jews, trust them with the unsupervised handling of government revenue?
:By the way, Romans attacked Christians just as much as Jews for not worshipping the emperor -- sometimes even more so, since such practices by Jews were sometimes tolerated if they were following their ancestral religion, while Christians would not receive the same benefit of the doubt if they were perceived as practicing a new or innovated religion (in Roman eyes, a new religion was much more suspect than an ancestral one). ] (]) 03:25, 25 February 2024 (UTC)


Were these speculative rationales always the case? After all, weren't a significant number of Jews in these professions even in nations in which they were not extensively banned from other professions? We're making causation/correlation statements without the usual controls, and we want to be careful about accepting specious explanations too uncritically. These explanations may be accurate, but there is at least some evidence which contradicts them.
::P.S. Both Jews and Christians were sometimes called "atheists" by ancient Greco-Romans, in the sense of refusing to recognize the deities involved in various social and political rituals... ] (]) 14:10, 1 March 2024 (UTC)


Also, weren't Jewish people banned from charging interest to fellow Jews? It was not only Christians that took a dim view of the practice, to the extent of banning it amongst their in-groups. ] (]) 11:23, 29 December 2024 (UTC)
== "Well poisoning hoax" ==


== Why not under Trope? ==
someone should add a section here about Israeli poisoning of Palestinian wells and causing widespread sickness and death


Why isn’t this entry under Trope, Libel, Canard, or even Anti-semitism? Surely it is not the sole example of any of the above. ] (]) 19:11, 3 November 2024 (UTC)
page for reference = https://en.wikipedia.org/Well_poisoning#:~:text=Israel%20poisoned%20the%20wells%20and,that%20was%20foiled%20by%20the


:What does that mean? This article could not be usefully merged with any other. It's for narratives which keep on being revived again and again time after time, no matter how effectively they've been refuted, or how little basis in fact they have. (This was clearer under the article's previous name.) ] (]) 19:01, 4 November 2024 (UTC)
Thank you ] (]) 19:05, 24 February 2024 (UTC)
:This page is about improving the article ]. Just as AnonMoos, I do not know what you mean by "this entry" being "under Trope", but maybe you want to improve the articles ], ], ], or ] instead by linking to this article? It would be helpful if you learn the terms used by Misplaced Pages, such as "article", so people understand what you mean. --] (]) 07:55, 5 November 2024 (UTC)


== Some irrelevant information in main section. ==
:Having seen your message, it is clear that article has exactly served its purpose. ] (]) 23:48, 24 September 2024 (UTC)


The last lines of the main section read: "The most recent example is the denial or trivialization of the October 7 massacres, with the victims overwhelmingly Jewish, including several Holocaust survivors."
== Changing source on well poisoning hoax ==


I would change this to: "The most recent example is the denial or trivialization of the October 7 massacres, with the victims overwhelmingly Jewish."
Is it possible to choose a different source for the summary on the well poisoning hoax (the 14th citation)? I believe the citation leads to a pro-Zionist website; another article published from them covering a university student rally used the word genocide in quotations (to deny its occurance). ] (]) 20:06, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
:{{u|Throwaway200}}, reliable sources are allowed to have their own point of view, and favoring Zionism does not lead to the conclusion that the source is unreliable, any more than a published source opposing Zionism means that source is unreliable. Nor does calling into question the point of view that Israel is guilty of genocide in Gaza render a source unreliable. ] (]) 03:38, 8 May 2024 (UTC)
:What do you mean by "pro-Zionist"? ] (]) 01:30, 25 September 2024 (UTC)


Indeed, the fact that many victims were Holocaust survivors is irrelevant to the denial or trivialisation of October 7th atrocities.
== Minor clarifications regarding Demonization in other religions or movements ==


Also, the cited source isn't of a good enough quality. Better sources should be found. ] (]) 18:33, 8 November 2024 (UTC)
The word "insecurity" is in quotes, but I'm having problems finding where in the 3 given sources it's specifically used.


== Antisemitism did not cause WWII ==
Secondly, can I remove the links in ] & ]? They read as clear ''].'' ] (]) 17:39, 3 October 2024 (UTC)


It's a bit disconcerting to read in the main section that "These tropes fatefully formed Adolf Hitler's worldview, caused WWII". Of course antisemitism was the base for the Holocaust but and instrumental for the rise of the Nazi party but nobody has ever argued that it ''caused'' WWII. ] (]) 00:13, 9 November 2024 (UTC)
== His Jewish community or the Jewish community? ==


:Doctrines of Lebensraum and Slavic Untermenschen, and a desire to get revenge on the French were most important in determining Hitler's aggressive policies which led to war. Once the war started, antisemitism had a big influence on how conquered territories were governed. ] (]) 13:35, 9 November 2024 (UTC)
The article currently reads: ''"The UC rejected AJC's criticisms as "distortion" and "obscurations", especially by Mose Durst, a convert from Judaism who became the president of the Unification Church of the United States, who accused his Jewish community of "insecurity" and being "hateful".''
::What you said isn't expressed by the passage at all though and still, I don't think any historian ever claimed that "these tropes causes WWII". I'd say it's even hard to argue that they caused ''in part'' WWII. ] (]) 17:33, 9 November 2024 (UTC)

I changed the possessive pronoun to "the" so the last sentence would read "who accused the Jewish community". Steven changed it back commenting "Mose Durst was Jewish: https://www.dialogueireland.ie/dicontent/resources/dciarchive/zinterviewdurst.html. A Jew is both a racial and religious identity". Well I would say it's both an ethnic and religious identity (and also cultural) rather than "racial" - but in any case it's irrelevant since regardless of whether or not they are part of the community one would more commonly use the article "the" rather than a possessive pronoun. ] (]) 17:51, 3 October 2024 (UTC)

:I think I'm having problems parsing the sentence as a whole. Is it saying the UC rejected criticisms made '''''by''''' Mose Durst or criticisms '''''of''''' Mose Durst? I assume the latter due to his membership, but I've read this sentence ~20 times & am still confused.
:To now comment directly on your question though, was the accusation specifically directed towards his local community or the Jewish community as a whole? ] (]) 18:05, 3 October 2024 (UTC)
::Yes, I was about to add that the passage is very poorly written and confusing. I'm trying to figure out which source actually mentions Durst. ] (]) 18:21, 3 October 2024 (UTC)
:::They're name dropped & wrote . Sources 326 & 327 respectively. ] (]) 18:29, 3 October 2024 (UTC)
:::::Okay, I think the passage means ''by Durst'' as per this article by him - the problem is the quoted words "insecurity" and "hateful" appear nowhere in this source, nor does this source mention Rabbi Rudin at all so it's not clear it is a response to him. Nor does the Time Magazine article that mentions Durst use these words so it appears we have quotations that are not properly sourced or that are not in the source that they are attributed to. I'm going to remove the passage about Durst - if someone can find an actual quote by him in response to the AJC's criticisms they can put him and the ''correct'' quotes back in. ] (]) 18:35, 3 October 2024 (UTC)
::For the poor phrasing, it is regretful and I apologise for it. ] (]) 20:11, 3 October 2024 (UTC)

The passage also says "Despite the UC's claims, Sun Myung Moon held an interfaith march with Louis Farrakhan, the most influential antisemite in America, in Washington D.C." - The claim that Farrakhan is the "most influential antisemite in America" needs to be attributed, otherwise it's an assertion by wikipedia itself. This appears to be an editorial comment by whichever Misplaced Pages editor added it as none of the cited sources make this claim. The closest I can find is Abraham Foxman calling him an "unrepentant bigot" in the Washington Post article and the NY Times article stating "Mr. Farrakhan, whom critics denounce as a race-baiter and anti-Semite" but neither article says he is the "most influential antisemite" in the US. I think it may be necessary to go through this article carefully and check it against the sources since it appears editors have been inserting their own editorial comments. ] (]) 18:57, 3 October 2024 (UTC)

:{{ping|Steven1991}} It looks like you added the claim that Farrakhan is the "most influential antisemite in America" Was this an editorial comments or is it in one of the sources that's cited at the end of the sentence? I couldn't find it in any of the sources which leads me to remind you ''not'' to insert your personal views or editorial comments into Misplaced Pages articles. If someone did say this about Farrakhan than it needs to be attributed and you can't write as if this is a fact asserted by Misplaced Pages, you should say something like "Farrakhan, whom X describes as the 'most influential antisemite in America'". Please read the ] policy as well as ]. ] (]) 19:08, 3 October 2024 (UTC)

== Scare quotes ==

{{ping|Steven1991}} Can you please stop using scare quotes ie Messianic "Jews". Your edit note says "but “Messianic Judaism” is not considered as Judaism but an Evangelical Christian movement – this is discussed in its relevant Misplaced Pages article." If you read the article ] you will see that the article isn't titled ''Messianic "Judiaism"'' and doesn't put Jews or Judaism in scare quotes at all. Scare quotes are a way of editorialising and expressing scorn and should be avoided as POV. Some ultraorthodox reject the state of Israel as contrary to the belief that there cannot be a state before the Messiah returns. Does this mean we should be writing "Israel" in scare quotes? Most Christians believe the Mormons are a heretical un-Christian sect. Does that mean we should write Church of "Jesus Christ" and Latter-Day Saints? Please try to write neutrally. ] (]) 20:32, 3 October 2024 (UTC)

:In the context of their own articles, ''scare quotes'' are not appropriate. However, when they are placed in other articles not directly related, quotes are sometimes needed to avoid causing confusion or granting the objects legitimacy we are not supposed to. I believe that not a few folks would say that it is wrong to put ''National Socialism'' in quotation when it shows up in articles not directly related to Nazism. Whether quote use is not neutral, it depends on context, and sometimes individual perceptions. ] (]) 20:38, 3 October 2024 (UTC)
:I understand your concern, but simply state my points. If such quote use is not desirable, then – yes – due attention can be paid in future edits, but it doesn’t mean that such quote use is inherently a form of editorialisation. Journalists regularly use quotation marks for different subjects/objects they are reporting. Does it mean they are biased? Yes, many of them are. However, it is also important to note that the impact of such quote use ought not to be exaggerated. ] (]) 20:43, 3 October 2024 (UTC)
::Does it mean they may be* ] (]) 20:46, 3 October 2024 (UTC)

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"Pushed Into"?

I'm not sure that this makes sense:

"pushed into marginalized occupations, such as tax collection and moneylending"

I've been unable to find any evidence that anyone was forced into tax collection or moneylending, and therefore this feel like a bit of artistic license.

Even today, there are many professions which are, as a practical matter, only accessible by members of more affluent classes. Despite this, few would accept that the lower classes are "pushed into" drug dealing, pimping, and prostitution. Rather, they are considered willful choices.

The number of professions which jews were banned from represented a relatively small percentage of professions overall, and I think it's a reach to suggest that there were few alternatives other than loan sharking. Especially to such a degree that they were "pushed" into it.

With regards to tax collection, why would a municipality which distrusts Jews, trust them with the unsupervised handling of government revenue?

Were these speculative rationales always the case? After all, weren't a significant number of Jews in these professions even in nations in which they were not extensively banned from other professions? We're making causation/correlation statements without the usual controls, and we want to be careful about accepting specious explanations too uncritically. These explanations may be accurate, but there is at least some evidence which contradicts them.

Also, weren't Jewish people banned from charging interest to fellow Jews? It was not only Christians that took a dim view of the practice, to the extent of banning it amongst their in-groups. Mr. Moral Panic (talk) 11:23, 29 December 2024 (UTC)

Why not under Trope?

Why isn’t this entry under Trope, Libel, Canard, or even Anti-semitism? Surely it is not the sole example of any of the above. GianniBGood (talk) 19:11, 3 November 2024 (UTC)

What does that mean? This article could not be usefully merged with any other. It's for narratives which keep on being revived again and again time after time, no matter how effectively they've been refuted, or how little basis in fact they have. (This was clearer under the article's previous name.) AnonMoos (talk) 19:01, 4 November 2024 (UTC)
This page is about improving the article Antisemitic trope. Just as AnonMoos, I do not know what you mean by "this entry" being "under Trope", but maybe you want to improve the articles Trope, Libel, Canard, or Anti-semitism instead by linking to this article? It would be helpful if you learn the terms used by Misplaced Pages, such as "article", so people understand what you mean. --Hob Gadling (talk) 07:55, 5 November 2024 (UTC)

Some irrelevant information in main section.

The last lines of the main section read: "The most recent example is the denial or trivialization of the October 7 massacres, with the victims overwhelmingly Jewish, including several Holocaust survivors."

I would change this to: "The most recent example is the denial or trivialization of the October 7 massacres, with the victims overwhelmingly Jewish."

Indeed, the fact that many victims were Holocaust survivors is irrelevant to the denial or trivialisation of October 7th atrocities.

Also, the cited source isn't of a good enough quality. Better sources should be found. ContiNuziali (talk) 18:33, 8 November 2024 (UTC)

Antisemitism did not cause WWII

It's a bit disconcerting to read in the main section that "These tropes fatefully formed Adolf Hitler's worldview, caused WWII". Of course antisemitism was the base for the Holocaust but and instrumental for the rise of the Nazi party but nobody has ever argued that it caused WWII. ContiNuziali (talk) 00:13, 9 November 2024 (UTC)

Doctrines of Lebensraum and Slavic Untermenschen, and a desire to get revenge on the French were most important in determining Hitler's aggressive policies which led to war. Once the war started, antisemitism had a big influence on how conquered territories were governed. AnonMoos (talk) 13:35, 9 November 2024 (UTC)
What you said isn't expressed by the passage at all though and still, I don't think any historian ever claimed that "these tropes causes WWII". I'd say it's even hard to argue that they caused in part WWII. 151.29.93.237 (talk) 17:33, 9 November 2024 (UTC)
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