David Frum
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In Canada, the place where the Belleville shooting took place, the leader of the small left-wing party, the New Democratic Party, is of Jewish origin, from a famous Jewish political dynasty in Canada.
He opened the Yom Kippur holiday by again saying, as someone who separated himself from Israel always in its time of need, I will identify with Israel to accuse Israel.
It's a footnote to history here that I sometimes think about.
The phrase blood libel refers to a myth that the Jews used blood in the making of matzah.
And as far as historians can tell, the myth originated in England in the 1100s when a boy disappeared and a local mob became convinced or was persuaded that the boy had been abducted by the local Jewish community, murdered, and his blood used to make masa.
And the massacres then followed.
This outrageously false accusation was recorded in a book written by a local monk called
who claimed to have been told that Jews did this by a man named Theobald of Cambridge, a converted Jew who revealed the secrets of the Jewish world, among them that Jews met once a year to pick a Christian child and condemn that child to death for his blood to be used in the making matzah.
Now, it's not clear whether Theobald of Cambridge actually existed or whether the monk who told the story invented him or distorted his words in some way, or the history of Theobald of Cambridge is a little murky.
I like to believe that he did exist.
I like to imagine Theobald of Cambridge saying in the 1100s, as a Jew, I'm here to tell you that the Jews really do use blood in the making of matzah, and you're right to go out and massacre them all to punish them for the crime I just invented to defame my own community.
And what I want to say when I hear these people saying, as a Jew, I accuse the Jews of being Nazis, is we had one Theobald of Cambridge already.
He did enough damage.
We don't need more.
But the modern progressive left, whether its members are of Jewish origin or not, tends to identify the Jews as privileged and powerful.
and therefore as dangerous.
And they often will see the Holocaust itself not as a source of suffering and misery, of trauma, which continues to affect Jewish mentality and Jewish life all these years after it happened.
They see the Holocaust as a source of Jewish power and privilege, and therefore something that needs to be redistributed from the Jews to someone who is more deserving, who needs their share of power and privilege, and the kind of power and privilege you get by having a Holocaust of your own.
And that is what is going on with this conflation lie.
The conflates say, we are going to accuse the Jews of the very thing that was done to them.
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