# What Do Radical Right Wingers Hate Jews? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [April 7, 2005, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-radical-right-wingers-hate-jews/298267 "2005-04-07T18:09:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jim\_B](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jim_b/32/4338_2.png) [@Jim\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_B)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2005, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-radical-right-wingers-hate-jews/298267/1 "2005-04-07T18:09:57Z")
I don’t think I need to offer proof or too many examples of this. It’s obvious. From Hitler to the Russian Pogroms to modern-day radical Muslims (no offense to any _moderate_ Muslims on these boards intended 🙂 ): extreme rightwing people and groups seem to always hate Jewish people. And I would like to know why. The answer to this question may not be that obvious either. For one thing, the reason given often differs. Hitler claimed Jewish people were racially inferior. Radical Muslims claim it because of the Jewish state of Israel. What **common** thread is there in all of this? ---
**Author:** ![Soapbox\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Soapbox\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soapbox_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2005, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-radical-right-wingers-hate-jews/298267/2 "2005-04-07T18:14:56Z")
> [@Jim B.](#): > > I don’t think I need to offer proof or too many examples of this. It’s obvious. From Hitler to the Russian Pogroms to modern-day radical Muslims (no offense to any _moderate_ Muslims on these boards intended 🙂 ): extreme rightwing people and groups seem to always hate Jewish people. And I would like to know why. > > The answer to this question may not be that obvious either. For one thing, the reason given often differs. Hitler claimed Jewish people were racially inferior. Radical Muslims claim it because of the Jewish state of Israel. What **common** thread is there in all of this? Well, from what I remember of Revelations, when the Antichrist comes, most of the Jews will follow him because he is the savior they have been waiting for (seeing as how they don’t think Jesus was the Messiah). So essentially they will all follow him right into the pits of Hell. Why this is reason enough to hate or loathe people of another faith, when you can’t even prove the absolute truth of your own, is a mystery to me. But then again, I stopped trying to rationalize Christianity 3 years ago, when I was smart enough to get the hell out while I was still young. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2005, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-radical-right-wingers-hate-jews/298267/3 "2005-04-07T18:18:20Z")
It’s not a right wing thing, it’s a bigot thing. Communist Russia, especially under Stalin, murdered more than its share of Jews. Possible reasons include: \*among nutty Christians, traditional ‘justification’ because the Jews killed Christ \*wherever they go, Jews are a relatively small community, often an identifiable one, composed of relatively recent immigrants \*traditional association of Jews with academia and finance makes some people suspicious ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2005, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-radical-right-wingers-hate-jews/298267/4 "2005-04-07T18:21:11Z")
You’re aware, of course, that radical left-wingers, such as Stalin, hated Jews, too, right? And let’s not forget many communists in Poland and Czechoslovakia were Anti-Zionists. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Semitism](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Semitism) ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2005, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-radical-right-wingers-hate-jews/298267/5 "2005-04-07T18:32:46Z")
And if you want a more current example, very close at hand, there’s the über-rabid Louis Farrakhan. ---
**Author:** ![Rashak\_Mani](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ea666f/32.png) [@Rashak\_Mani](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rashak_Mani)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2005, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-radical-right-wingers-hate-jews/298267/6 "2005-04-07T18:33:16Z")
Jews stick out like a sore thumb and have lots of money… there is no easier target… and having a distraction (aka as enemy) makes politics that much easier. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2005, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-radical-right-wingers-hate-jews/298267/7 "2005-04-07T19:20:29Z")
> [@UncleBeer](#): > > And if you want a more current example, very close at hand, there’s the über-rabid Louis Farrakhan. What’s “left wing” about Farrahhan? The NOI is down the line conservative on social issues, pro-gun, pro-life, anti-gay, anti-drug, etc. Why do people label Farrakhan as a liberal? ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2005, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-radical-right-wingers-hate-jews/298267/8 "2005-04-07T19:24:21Z")
I reject the premise of the OP. It seems that anyone who hates Jews is called a ‘right-winger.’ Obviously the Soviets (and worse yet, Polish Communists) were both anti-Semitic and left-wing. Further, I see no modern examples of modern right-wing people (say Pat Buchanan) being anti-Semitic. In fact the reverse seems to be true. They (tend to be) are strong supporters of Israel. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2005, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-radical-right-wingers-hate-jews/298267/9 "2005-04-07T19:25:21Z")
Hitler and radical Islamists are right wing? Well, given that the OP doesn’t know the difference between “what” and “why”, we shouldn’t be surprised. Whack-jobs like those folk transcend the left/right political axis. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2005, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-radical-right-wingers-hate-jews/298267/10 "2005-04-07T19:27:51Z")
> [@Paul in Saudi](#): > > Further, I see no modern examples of modern right-wing people (say Pat Buchanan) being anti-Semitic. In fact the reverse seems to be true. They (tend to be) are strong supporters of Israel. While you’re right that most American conservatives aren’t particularly anti-Semitic, I’d say that Pat Buchanan is. ---
**Author:** ![sleeping](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/839c29/32.png) [@sleeping](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sleeping)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2005, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-radical-right-wingers-hate-jews/298267/11 "2005-04-07T19:42:12Z")
There are several different political affiliations that can be identified as right-wing. For example: - **Neoconservatives** –Generally strong supporters of Israel, a good number of whom are Jewish. I think one could safely say that neocons, by and large, are not anti-Semitic (though whether their actions effect positive changes for most Jews is highly debatable). - **Paleoconservatives** –e.g., Pat Buchanan. Nothing intrinsically anti-Semitic about their stances. They oppose American involvement in other countries and thus disapprove of US aid to Israel. - **Libertarians** –Pretty much the same deal as the paleocons in their foreign policy. - **Christian Fundamentalists** –Generally ambivalent: strong supporters of Israel; occasionally differing views on who is responsible for Jesus’s death, etc. - **Neo-Nazis** –Mostly employ a congeries of anti-Semitic documents, myths, etc. I’d say exact political ideology is secondary for them. And of course there have been plenty of left-wing anti-Semites (of various stripes) as well. ---
**Author:** ![New\_Iskander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/db5fbb/32.png) [@New\_Iskander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/New_Iskander)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2005, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-radical-right-wingers-hate-jews/298267/12 "2005-04-07T19:50:49Z")
> [@Jim B.](#): > > I don’t think I need to offer proof or too many examples of this. I think you need to. What is radical right-wing? Small gov’t, free market, pro-military, xenophobic, blinded by religion? Was Hitler radical right-winger? NSDAP stood for ‘National Socialist Demoratic Worker Party’. To me, that sounds as Left as it gets. (For comparison, Lenin Bolsheviks were RSDRP, i.e. ‘Russian Socialist Democratic Workers Party’). Nazis weren’t completely atheist, but certainly hardly religious at all. Xenophobes, yes. Was Tsar of Russia radical right-winger? Nasser? Saddam? Assad? Yassir Arafat? Osama bL? ---
**Author:** ![gum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bbe5ce/32.png) [@gum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gum)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2005, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-radical-right-wingers-hate-jews/298267/13 "2005-04-07T19:52:38Z")
> [@Rashak Mani](#): > > Jews stick out like a sore thumb and have lots of money… there is no easier target… and having a distraction (aka as enemy) makes politics that much easier. That was a woosh, right? ---
**Author:** ![sleeping](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/839c29/32.png) [@sleeping](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sleeping)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2005, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-radical-right-wingers-hate-jews/298267/14 "2005-04-07T20:10:41Z")
> [@Rashak Mani](#): > > Jews stick out like a sore thumb and have lots of money… there is no easier target… and having a distraction (aka as enemy) makes politics that much easier. An oversimplification based on a particular group of Jews at a particular time. This was not always the case and anti-Semitism often existed as a set of contradictions: at a given time, poor Jews could be looked at with contempt and considered subhuman scum while rich Jews were regarded with fear and distrust. Although the second part can probably be taken as an overarching historical theme–scapegoating has often proven a convenient solution for politicians during periods of strife. ---
**Author:** ![furt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/439d5e/32.png) [@furt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furt)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2005, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-radical-right-wingers-hate-jews/298267/15 "2005-04-07T21:03:07Z")
> [@gum](#): > > That was a woosh, right? No, I don’t think it was. Care to expand on those comments, RM? ---
**Author:** ![BigBoss3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@BigBoss3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigBoss3)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2005, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-radical-right-wingers-hate-jews/298267/16 "2005-04-07T21:03:16Z")
> [@New Iskander](#): > > What is radical right-wing? Small gov’t, free market, pro-military, xenophobic, blinded by religion? Well, right-wing in a traditional and original european sense means traditionalist, nationalistic, militaristic, communist/anarchist/alien hating- so the Nazis were right-wing by those criteria. > [@](#): > > Jews stick out like a sore thumb and have lots of money… there is no easier target… and having a distraction (aka as enemy) makes politics that much easier. > > > [@](#): > > > > That was a woosh, right? In much of Eastern and Central Europe at the turn of the century nearly every capitalist was jewish. The resentments of the proletariat there at the economic inequities of capitalism often manifested themselves as anti-semitism rather than pro-socialism, hence why some german socialist (I forget who) called anti-semitism “the socialism of fools”. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2005, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-radical-right-wingers-hate-jews/298267/17 "2005-04-07T21:05:34Z")
> [@](#): > > What’s “left wing” about Farrahhan? The NOI is down the line conservative on social issues, pro-gun, pro-life, anti-gay, anti-drug, etc. Why do people label Farrakhan as a liberal? You’re right, of course. Mebbe I was thinking about Al Sharpton? ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2005, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-radical-right-wingers-hate-jews/298267/18 "2005-04-07T21:17:59Z")
> [@UncleBeer](#): > > You’re right, of course. Mebbe I was thinking about Al Sharpton? Or Jesse Jackson, with his “Hymietown” reference? ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2005, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-radical-right-wingers-hate-jews/298267/19 "2005-04-07T21:27:44Z")
Mebbe, but I don’t think Jackson is nearly as actively and adamantly anti-semitic as Sharpton (or Farrakhan fo that matter). At least not openly. He’s much too shrewd and seasoned a pol for that. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2005, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-radical-right-wingers-hate-jews/298267/20 "2005-04-07T21:44:37Z")
Why do some right-wingers hate Jews? Tradition. The Right is big on tradition. In cultures where it used to be traditional to hate Jews, certain radical right-wingers hate Jews. It’s pretty simple, actually. Now, as to certain radical left-wingers- they hate Jews for completely different reasons. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-radical-right-wingers-hate-jews/298267.md?page=2)