Rick Spence

So Hitler is essentially, as I see it, sent in by the army as their trained man to assume leadership within this small party and to use it for the army's patriotic propaganda campaign. And is his season doing so, even to the name change to the National Socialist or German Workers' Party? I mean, really, what sounds more red than that?

Well, it's a huge topic. Where does anti-Semitism come from? Let's start with that term itself, a term which I have really grown increasingly to dislike because it doesn't actually say what it means. Anti-Semitism is anti-Jewism. That's all it is. I'm not sure whether there has ever existed a person who hated Jews, Arabs, and Maltese equally. Okay, that's kind of hard to imagine. I don't know.

Well, it's a huge topic. Where does anti-Semitism come from? Let's start with that term itself, a term which I have really grown increasingly to dislike because it doesn't actually say what it means. Anti-Semitism is anti-Jewism. That's all it is. I'm not sure whether there has ever existed a person who hated Jews, Arabs, and Maltese equally. Okay, that's kind of hard to imagine. I don't know.

Well, it's a huge topic. Where does anti-Semitism come from? Let's start with that term itself, a term which I have really grown increasingly to dislike because it doesn't actually say what it means. Anti-Semitism is anti-Jewism. That's all it is. I'm not sure whether there has ever existed a person who hated Jews, Arabs, and Maltese equally. Okay, that's kind of hard to imagine. I don't know.

But that's technically what that would mean, because let's face it, most Semites are Arabs. So if you're an anti-Semite, then you don't seem to distinguish Jews from Arabs. It makes no sense. The origin of the term is invented by, guess what, an anti-Semite. A guy in the 1870s, a German journalist by the name of Wilhelm Marr, who is...

But that's technically what that would mean, because let's face it, most Semites are Arabs. So if you're an anti-Semite, then you don't seem to distinguish Jews from Arabs. It makes no sense. The origin of the term is invented by, guess what, an anti-Semite. A guy in the 1870s, a German journalist by the name of Wilhelm Marr, who is...

But that's technically what that would mean, because let's face it, most Semites are Arabs. So if you're an anti-Semite, then you don't seem to distinguish Jews from Arabs. It makes no sense. The origin of the term is invented by, guess what, an anti-Semite. A guy in the 1870s, a German journalist by the name of Wilhelm Marr, who is...

Wouldn't you know it, part Jewish himself, and who decides that you really need a better term than Judenhass, Jew hate, which was the term, because that just sounds so, you know, inelegant, doesn't it? Okay. What do you want to call yourself? A Jew hater or an anti-Semite? See? See? Anti-Semitism, it's got that ism part at the end of it, which means it's a system of belief.

Wouldn't you know it, part Jewish himself, and who decides that you really need a better term than Judenhass, Jew hate, which was the term, because that just sounds so, you know, inelegant, doesn't it? Okay. What do you want to call yourself? A Jew hater or an anti-Semite? See? See? Anti-Semitism, it's got that ism part at the end of it, which means it's a system of belief.

Wouldn't you know it, part Jewish himself, and who decides that you really need a better term than Judenhass, Jew hate, which was the term, because that just sounds so, you know, inelegant, doesn't it? Okay. What do you want to call yourself? A Jew hater or an anti-Semite? See? See? Anti-Semitism, it's got that ism part at the end of it, which means it's a system of belief.

Anything that has an ism must somehow be scientific and important. It's all part of the 19th century obsession with trying to bring science into something or the other. So we're going to get rid of Jew hate and we're going to turn it into anti-Semitism. And we're only going to be talking about Jews, but we'll never actually say that. And somehow...

Anything that has an ism must somehow be scientific and important. It's all part of the 19th century obsession with trying to bring science into something or the other. So we're going to get rid of Jew hate and we're going to turn it into anti-Semitism. And we're only going to be talking about Jews, but we'll never actually say that. And somehow...

Anything that has an ism must somehow be scientific and important. It's all part of the 19th century obsession with trying to bring science into something or the other. So we're going to get rid of Jew hate and we're going to turn it into anti-Semitism. And we're only going to be talking about Jews, but we'll never actually say that. And somehow...

The invention of a Jew-hater to disguise the fact that he's a Jew-hater, even though he's partly Jewish, by inventing the term anti-Semitism worked because everybody has bought it and repeated it ever since. So, I don't know, maybe just because anti-Jewism would just be, is it too direct in some way? Do we have difficulty confronting actually what it is that we're talking about?

The invention of a Jew-hater to disguise the fact that he's a Jew-hater, even though he's partly Jewish, by inventing the term anti-Semitism worked because everybody has bought it and repeated it ever since. So, I don't know, maybe just because anti-Jewism would just be, is it too direct in some way? Do we have difficulty confronting actually what it is that we're talking about?

The invention of a Jew-hater to disguise the fact that he's a Jew-hater, even though he's partly Jewish, by inventing the term anti-Semitism worked because everybody has bought it and repeated it ever since. So, I don't know, maybe just because anti-Jewism would just be, is it too direct in some way? Do we have difficulty confronting actually what it is that we're talking about?

Well, the question then comes, what exactly do you hate about Jews? And a lot of this has to do with If you go back part of the 19th century, if Jews were hated, they were hated for religious reasons. In Christian Europe, they were hated because they weren't Christians. And they existed as the only kind of significant religious minority. But other than that, they tended to live separately.

Well, the question then comes, what exactly do you hate about Jews? And a lot of this has to do with If you go back part of the 19th century, if Jews were hated, they were hated for religious reasons. In Christian Europe, they were hated because they weren't Christians. And they existed as the only kind of significant religious minority. But other than that, they tended to live separately.

Well, the question then comes, what exactly do you hate about Jews? And a lot of this has to do with If you go back part of the 19th century, if Jews were hated, they were hated for religious reasons. In Christian Europe, they were hated because they weren't Christians. And they existed as the only kind of significant religious minority. But other than that, they tended to live separately.

They had little economic influence. Jews tended to live in shtetls in the East, ghettos elsewhere. Some were involved in banking and business, but they sort of remained segregated from much of society. That changes when you get to the 19th century and with what's called Jewish emancipation.