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Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Between Anti-Semitism and Nigeraphobia



Also published in PEOPLES DAILY



Anti-Semitism as defined by Rev. Ted Pike is the “belief that Jews, because of heredity, are evil, greedy, corrupting, subversive,degenerate, etc”. It was so widely held and deep-rooted that, over different stages of history it culminated in their persecutions, killings and even annihilative attempts; the most well-known of which were those committed by the Pharaoh of the ancient Egypt and Adolf Hitler of Germany, in ancient ages and 20th century respectively. Incidentally, the latter provoked the devastating world war ll.