The Mutating Virus: Understanding Antisemitism | Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
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- "The hate that begins with Jews never ends with Jews." On 27th September 2016, Rabbi Sacks delivered a keynote address entitled 'The Mutating Virus: Understanding Antisemitism' in the European Parliament. The speech opened a conference on the future of Jewish communities in Europe hosted by Martin Schulz, President of the European Parliament. To read a transcript of the speech, please click here: bit.ly/2dCyUyq.
Learn more about Rabbi Sacks' work at www.rabbisacks...
The world needs to hear this speech today
I can’t believe this was 7 years ago. It’s even so much more true today
I watch Rabbi Sacks's prescient words in 2023, a time even more scary for Jews than 2016. On this, the second day of Hanukkah, thank you, Rabbi, for being such a light in the world.
I miss Rabbi Sacks so much... He left to this world so much wisdom and knowledge and he taught me to be a proud Jew and how good Hashem is.
Rest in Peace. A powerful voice, not only in the House of Lords but all over Europe. Thank you.
I grew up during the 50s and 60s in Nashville, Tennessee in a neighborhood around Vanderbilt University. I witnessed my Jewish friends being harassed. About 20 percent of the kids in school were Jewish. I have been very distressed to see the reemergence of anti-Semitism in America and in Europe. Jews are being driven out of their homes in Europe. I am especially dismayed when I hear it expressed by friends and family. It is rampant in universities. This speech has helped me to understand how this has happened. It appears that Jews are again facing an existential crisis.
cheers lad i appreciate that much love from a european jew were there that many jews in the deep south ?were they students from the north or local
@@ashley-fk6dp As my Nashville neighborhood was around Vanderbilt University, it had a disproportionately high Jewish population for a Southern city. I was so fortunate to grow up there. I remember having serial crushes on Jewish girls in my classes (attractive, smart, funny).
Now in November 2023, Jews are being targeted like never before. My mother is a secular Jew so I am also Jewish, though I am secular. Right now I get snide comments. Anti-Semitism is back and flourishing in the US, Canada, Europe and Australia. I would not want to be in university right now. Most Jews are not safe in American universities right now.
A very very powerful speech. May the memory of Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks be a blessing. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
He is not only articulate but says it like it is. A lesson for everyone.
You need to go back to school and learn to write proper english, then when you can red and write you educate yourself
Annie Hershkowitz, it's "read and write."
+jordisod hehehe
absolutely thomas neale. The Russian Revolution should be called The Jewish Revolution.
@First Name And then comes the Jewish revolution, as also confirmed by at least one Rabbi, and murder several times as many people than the Czars did. Ask eg. Alexander Solchenyzin, who said that, experiencing Bolshevism, the Czar looked like a well-mannered and very civil person in retrospect.
I miss this man... He was such a wealth of wisdom. Very few men like him exist today.
The most outstanding and easy to understand speech on Anti Semitism that I ever heard in my life. Kol HaKavod Rabbi Sacks!
@@wakeupcall6288 shut up, no one cares about jesus. you will never convert us. he’s not the messiah neither is he the lord. bye.
A powerful speech - honest, rigorous,challenging the conscience of Europe.
It is hard to imagine much more to believe that any Spiritual Teacher and leader can be missed more or even as much as Rabbi Jonathan Sacks.
GOD BLESS YOU Rabbi SACKS and looking forward to that day when we will listening to you again.
One of the best speeches I've ever heard. He hit the nail on the head. Hopefully the leaders will take heed very soon.
you need to get out a little bit more then. try Benjamin H. Freedman's speech.
Rabbi Sacks words so important this difficult time.
תודה רבה ❤
This should be compulsory listening to the British Labour Party, Momentum, the Chair of the NUS and especially Jackie Walker.
Why?
RMSAnalyst
historically correct, brilliantly presented clear and concise. thank you Rabbi Sacks for your work
Hi Margarita are we family of each other?
This is an EPIC moment and epic speech!!!
Brilliant and powerful speach. May the Rav's neshama have Aliya!
What an OUTSTANDING speech- Now I TRULY Understand THE REAL MEANING of Antisemitism. THANK YOU Sir
This man is brilliant. יהי זכרונו לברכה
Gone too soon, we need your wisdom today, Rabbi Sacks!
The best British political scientist of my lifetime. Rest in peace Jonathan, you were a friend to the world.That was special but also prophetic in October 2023.
Thank you once again Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, ' a blessed memory ,' for reminding us about Antisemitism. " The hate that starts with the Jews doesn't end with the Jews, " Standing United for HUMANITY.
Rabbi Sacks is a brilliant man and a brilliant speaker.
Europe has become a place I fear to go. When I was a child I longed to live there.
His passing has been such a profound loss. We need him now more than ever.
A towering intellect tells it exactly as it was and is.
Blessings 🇮🇱 Rabbi, Praying HASHEM'S LIGHT of Wisdom to shine over all countries to realize the truth Amen 🙏 am Yisrael Chai Amen ❤
Brilliant analysis! Well said!
Thought provoking, powerful, and very moving! How I wish I had discovered this eloquent gentleman long ago! How sad that he is not with us now. May he of Blessed Memory return at a future, better time.
Thank you Rabbi. Your message must be heard, thus I will be sharing for more to hear.
I love the Jewish people and I care about your rights.
Shalom, I have been saying the same. If someone has hatred , they look for someone to pour it out on.
Jonathan Sacks a fantastic man. The book Morality written by him - his kindness and compassion is in every page. RIP.❤
Well expressed and summed up succinctly in simple words so everyone can understand history repeats itself. Making room for those who are different was a profound sentence I hope is penetrating...
What a great speaker, teacher and role model. RIP Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
You're a supporter of Nazism. lol
This Rabbi is truly a teacher. This should be taught in schools all over Europe and North America...and it wouldn't be amiss to translate the lesson to Arabic and teach it to the Middle East.
Myriam Obadia I don't think so lady. Keep it in the synagogues. There has to be a reason for this "anti-Semitism". People don't just hate you or anyone for no reason. Unless you've done something to them.
@bruce marcus False analogy.
These words of wisdom by the late Rabbi Johnathan Sachs must be heard by all across nations and world as we are living in the darkest hour ❤
Excellent words for us all as a collective human race to heed. Thank you for your voice.
The European Parliament gave Mahmood Abbas a standing ovation after a speech in which he deploys the notorious anti-Semitic canard of the Jews "poisoning the well." The EU is not serious about opposing Jew-hatred.
Oh how much we need him today.
I am moved to tears
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did you even watch the video? your ideology is backwards and lives in the past your views are old news, they make no scene and your obviously a twisted hate filled person
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Crocodile tears
Jews made up 80-85% of the first Soviet government.
magnificent speech, wake up world!!!!
Excellent speech: let us all do what we can in our own lives and within our means to help our societies recover from this terrible desease.
This man cannot be replaced
I wish that were true!
Thank you Rabbi Sacks. Please give a talk again today 2020
Brilliant and true. And since then, everything has got worse.
This was the best speech I have ever seen. Wow
Enlightening intelligent coherent and Very urgent talk. THANK YOU.
Unusual man and powerful speaker, who may be a lost voice in the wind.
To me he sounds more like a heck of a lot of wind blowing about trying to find a voice of reason.
Isn't relevant what it 'sounds' to you. Shame you can't hear his words.
@@RamSadeh I can hear his words, and there are almost more lies than words in his speech, at least so far. He follows the usual Jewis mantra of "Catch the thief, he has my knife in his back!"
The rabbi says one should ask: "what do we do wrong", I will tell you what we did wrong, we let this cursed blight into our lands.
Francis the Pagan who's a wannabe Jew
What did the Jewish State do wrong? It murdered the Palestinians and stole their land.
Joseph O'Neill Ottoman/Turkish for 500 years, British Mandate 1920-48, Israel 1948-present. Arab state = never.
@@judahkatz2402 If he wanted to, he could still convert.
@@linuxpython935 Can't convert to a heritage. Jewish is an ancient nationality, ethnicity and heritage. You can't convert to being Jewish the same way you can't convert to being Irish or Japanese. Judaism is for Jews. Its our nations constitution as an inheritance that is a decree from G-d. Everyone else who believes they should behave by the commandments as their own personal mission statement is a Noahider or Ben Noah.
That's a beautiful chunk of Deep Wisdom that will take me some good well used time to chew and savour its true valuable value.
Excellent speech.
Very well said..a video everyone should watch.
You mean Last Battle of Europe?
this is going on in America especially in the colleges. Christians are praying for Israel daily
you need to read Galatians. there is no Jew and there is no gentile. there is no chosen people but through Christ.
Ignorant woman
yeah pray for murderes and zionists
I pray for the oppressed Palestinians daily.
What else do you expect from the followers of the "slave religion"?
A great Sage in our time - Wisdom with warmth and Humanity
Great speech. The problem is that those non or partial Jews who fought fascism are quite weakened demographically, mentally and financially.
Great speech, but the message makes me sad. Also some of the comments under this video.
Rabbi, you are missed beyond words.
hate follows the path of least resistance ,it is caused by fear. the terrorists have done their job well.
Well said.
i am in awe...
LOVE YOU, MANY BLESSINGS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
great speech.......a wake up call to all sensible europeans
Rabbi says: ' You can either ask what did we do wrong or who did it to us.' I was hoping for some introspection on his part.
Three words: Barbara Lerner Spectre
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'Barbara Lerner Spectre is an academic and philosophy lecturer, who
is the founding director of Paideia, the European Institute for Jewish
Studies in Sweden, a non-denominational academic institute established
in 2001'
in interview she said this (youtube is full of it):
“I think there is a resurgence of anti-Semitism because
at this point in time Europe has not yet learned
how to be multicultural. And I think we are going to be part of the
throes of that transformation, which must take place. Europe is not
going to be the monolithic societies they once were in the last century.
Jews are going to be at the centre of that. It’s a huge transformation
for Europe to make. They are now going into a multicultural mode and
Jews will be resented because of our leading role. But without that
leading role and without that transformation, Europe will not survive.”
Except that Ms. Spectre does not speak for all Jewry everywhere. A presumed transformation of Europe into a multicultural society (which Rabbi Sacks has said is an unworkable concept) is certainly not part of any political platform one must subscribe to in order to be Jewish. Sure, many Jews lean left on immigration, but some are centrist to right (I favor strict border control but am all for taking in refugees as long as they're basically harmless). Ideological diversity exists among Jews as much as it does any other people. Look at American blacks: You can find socialists, conservative Christians, modernist Muslims to conservative Muslims to apolitical atheists & everything in between.
@@schechter01 And that is exactly why Rabbi and others should say that (Spectre does not speak for them). Maybe then it would be easier to see (and to argument) that she does not speak for significant part of Jews.She claims she does and all those Jewish orgs claim that too. Even Reform Judaism (in US) seem to be on board.
There is too many 'open border', 'fellow white people', 'Christianity/Europeans suck' voices coming from Jewish community. And the rest are.....Israel First advocates.
I heard some very good stuff from people who happen to be Jewish. But it is very hard to find tbh. And it is a shame.
Well said sir, thank you.
Well said indeed. Respect!
Simply brilliant!
Antisemitism didnt just pop up without reason!
It came about because your pagan ancestors through away their heritage to copycat Jews and then got very envious that OUR Biblical heritage wasn't theirs and that they were just wannabes clinging onto to a house that Jews built instead of house that their own people built.
thank you my pagan Friend
@@judahkatz2402 yeah forcing Kings into christianity with your disgusting desert crap .. a deathcult ... paganism will rise again but now.. we know our enemy and we can see the lies and the manipulation
Amazing. Sadly we are seeing his words of Antisemitism reverberate around the world today.
Oh that Europe and the World had listened to Rabbi Sacks. He saw our today. He warned the World to take another path and we did not listen.
He states that there are "103 Christian countries", I'm open to correction, but I can't name one; not even the Vatican.
אליאל בן-דן Christianity is a part of the Vatican; it was born of the Roman Catholic Church
Brilliant. Sadly the hatred is so all consuming, that they the Europeans, will be the ones to suffer. We are already seeing five years later what is happening there.
Israel loves human rights as long as they're jewish
Doronel Howard, boohoo. that's what happens when you try to conquer land that is presently occupied.
We won that land 4 times. Arab Muslim invaders have no right to that land.
If you think Arab Muslims have the right to our homeland, your homeland will be next.
You might think the whole of the Middle East should belong to Muslim Arabs.
I disagree, strongly.
By definition, for Jews, a non-jewish life is not a human life at all. Striking similarity with Islam, btw.
@@dbz1978 Due to your machinations, our homelands are already "for the Arabs". They were not if it weren't for you.
Zechariah 2:1 I lifted up mine eyes again, and looked, and behold a man with a measuring line in his hand.
Zechariah 2:2 Then said I, Whither goest thou? And he said unto me, To measure Jerusalem, to see what is the breadth thereof, and what is the length thereof.
Zechariah 2:3 And, behold, the angel that talked with me went forth, and another angel went out to meet him,
Zechariah 2:4 And said unto him, Run, speak to this young man, saying, Jerusalem shall be inhabited as towns without walls for the multitude of men and cattle therein:
Zechariah 2:5 For I, saith the LORD, will be unto her a wall of fire round about, and will be the glory in the midst of her.
Zechariah 2:6 Ho, ho, come forth, and flee from the land of the north, saith the LORD: for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the heaven, saith the LORD.
Zechariah 2:7 Deliver thyself, O Zion, that dwellest with the daughter of Babylon.
Zechariah 2:8 For thus saith the LORD of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye.
Zechariah 2:9 For, behold, I will shake mine hand upon them, and they shall be a spoil to their servants: and ye shall know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me.
Zechariah 2:10 Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion: for, lo, I come, and I will dwell in the midst of thee, saith the LORD.
Zechariah 2:11 And many nations shall be joined to the LORD in that day, and shall be my people: and I will dwell in the midst of thee, and thou shalt know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me unto thee.
Zechariah 2:12 And the LORD shall inherit Judah his portion in the holy land, and shall choose Jerusalem again.
Zechariah 2:13 Be silent, O all flesh, before the LORD: for he is raised up out of his holy habitation.
A Pray in public
1 Samuel 14:45 And the people said unto Saul, Shall Jonathan die, who hath wrought this great salvation in Israel? God forbid: as the LORD liveth, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground; for he hath wrought with God this day. So the people rescued Jonathan, that he died not.
He should listen to his own speech. He is not asking, "What did we do wrong". He is blaming others. He is doing exactly what he said would doom a people.
No. He's addressing the European parliament. "what did we (Europe) do wrong? We allowed a new strain of anti semitism to emerge." He's not blaming anti Semites for the problems, but rather saying a society that tolerates or fosters such irrational hatred is headed in a dangerous direction. Anti semitism is the symptom not the disease.
There is no end to the introspection and self-criticism within the Jewish community. It's even sickening. But that is not the topic of this speech. He is referring to the type of hatred and violence for which nothing that "we did" can properly justify.
Even if you accept the maximal claims against the state of Israel, include all the exaggerations and fabrications, Israel would not deserve being singled out the way she is. And surely it would not justify the slaughter of innocent children in France, who have no connection to Israeli policy, just as the claim that ancient Jews killed Jesus did not justify the murder of medieval Jews.
Moshe, there is no such thing as "israel", there is only an illegally occupied Palestine.
The first time Palestine was used to designate the region was in 135 after the failed Jewish rebellion. The Romans joined Syria and Judea and called it Syria Palaestina in order to erase the Jewish identity of the land and prevent further insurrections.
In 1920 when the British Mandate for Palestine was created, Zionists rejoiced and the Arabs rejected it because they considered the region to be southern Syria.
In 1947 the UN voted in favor of partitioning Palestine, and on the basis of this Israel was established in ‘48. There was no modern sovereign state in the land before this time, so no occupation.
I.e. Palestine doesn’t mean what you think it means, and there is an Israel with nothing illegal about it, and it’s doing pretty fucking well. Sorry that Jews doing well for themselves disturbs you.
Moshe Kahn Since when did anyone other than the people living in Palestine have the authority to decide over their own sovereignty?
... and the UN resolutions you refer to have never been honoured - hence the term "illegal" in the phrase "illegal occupation"
There is no such thing as "israel", there is only an illegal occupation of Palestine and of its people.
Toda Rab ❤
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Thank you
Heard today!!
Examplary and straightforward presentation.
For those who have a brain: We Jews are human beings, and each is entitled to his or her own opinion. Rabbi Sacks is speaking for himself.
For myself, he says some things I agree with, but I don't agree with the core. Sometimes we are at fault, sometimes others are at fault, and sometimes no one is at fault.
The general thrust of the rabbi speech says that anti Semitic behaviour whether covert or open represents failings and errors in a group mentality that is insecure and blames it's failings on the Jews who aspire to be the chosen people's.Because the Jewish People have made their mark in entertainment,The Arts Simon Schamar writers Franz Kafka Leon URis The Joys of Yiddish Lloyd Grossman Balshevis singer It's our identity and culture that are being villified and it's the longest hatred and has to stop.This is a stain on the people's of Europe who consider us as the other. Those who fail to learn from history are bound toake make the same mistakes .We European must stand up for this cataclysmic mistake.
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First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out-
Because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out-
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out-
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me-and there was no one left to speak for me.
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Germans were mad at the Jews because they switched sides after Jews took control of Russia so they could get land in Palestine from Britain. watch Benjamin H. Freedman's speech on TH-cam.
Did you just quote Livingston?
@First Name Many Jews were purged from the Soviet government, Grigory Zinoviev and Lev Kamenev being important ones, but that wasn't because Stalin was anti-semitic- it's because most of his rivals were Jewish, with Leon Trotsky being the main one. His righthand man was Lazar Kaganovitch, the man who orchestrated the Holodomor, and Molotov was married to a Jewish woman.
@First Name Stalin's righthand man was a Jew, Lazar Kaganovitch, and Molotov had a Jewish wife. Also, Stalin had Jewish wives.
@bruce marcus have we communicated on TH-cam before?
Question. Who is the entity protecting the gholan heights being treated and armed with light munitions (this has been admitted) and aided by nato allies and including israel. For more regarding israels involvement in syria look up british journalist in syria Vanessa beeley and canadian eva bartlett and others
The faux patriotism for Europe, and the victim blaming in this video are pretty incredible tbqh!
@bruce marcus Are y ou mourning the loss of revenue because he got off your crack?
Consider this, my friends. Rather you believe Yeshua is Mashiach or not, HE is. The greatest Semite of all. I wonder if hating HIM is the worst antisemitic act of all... Think about this. GOD says in Deuteronomy 7:10
a huge warning. 18:19, too.
I'm a Christian who prays Every day, lst, for the whole Hebrew Nation. We support may ministries, Orthodox & Messianic, Aliyah flights, IFCJ's, One For lsra'EL, MJAI Leket, etc.
I would hide you, so just consider my word, straight from the Lord Yeshua.
SHALOM.
Great speech
What is the reason that the Bible begins with Genesis? Because of the verse; "The power of His works He hath declared to His people in giving them the heritage of the nations" (Ps. 111.6).
For if the nations of the world should say to Israel: "You are robbers, because you have seized by force the lands of the seven nations of Canaan, then Israel could say to them, "The entire world belongs to the Holy One, Blessed Be He, He created it and gave it to whomever it was right in His eyes. Of His own will He gave it to them and of His own will He took it from them and gave it to us." (Rashi to Genesis 1:1 Rabbi Isaac)
I am sorry that Europe has hurt you so much. Unfortunately I was born in Europe, I don't agree with hatred
A clearheaded Rabbi
BRAVO!
Antisemitism returned and grows exponentially with the influx of Muslims into the West
let us talk about anti gentile ism instead
Nonsense. Any gentile can be accepted in a Jewish community, and we do NOT encourage this, we just say "can".
We are against converting others, but nobody is barred access to our heritage.
Why hate us for no reason?
@@dbz1978 Is that why there are large swathes of land in Israel and the occupied territories, where Gentiles are not allowed at all?
It's sad how obsessed you are with 0.2% of the worlds population
Huge loss to our world.
You keep saying Antisemitism isn't about Jews. Why do you keep talking about Jews then?
"Antisemitism is not about Jews. It is about anti-Semites. It is about people who cannot accept responsibility for their own failures and have instead to blame someone else."
Yes
The sacred cow of "human rights"......Jews are humans too
Personne pourrait le traduire en français car je comprends pas l'anglais
of course Israel have right to exist, but as a normal country, with equal right for everyone, not just rigth for jews.
Like all the other countries in the Middle East gives equal rights to Jews, Gays, Atheists and Christians? How many Jews live in Gaza, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon and Iraq?
@@0e0l7i that means that you are not agree to equal rights in Israel?
@@sebastiandiazrovano Israel does have equal rights for everyone, 20% of the Israeli population is Arab and they have laws protecting them from discrimination and giving them the same rights as everyone else
@@adi4848 I guess that you thing that what Israel do in Westbank is ok too... Im just wasting my time, have a good day
May have missed it, but not heard him say anything re Corbyn and his thinly veiled ant-semitism (comment written in August 2018.)
This talk was in 2016 :-)
Western Europe has, in recent decades, embraced diversity as a fundamental basis for it’s social fabric. It is somewhat ironic that some elements of that fabric act to eliminate one of the older strands of that fabric.
It would not surprise me if many Jews welcomed the move to a more diverse society believing they would be just one amongst many social strands. Little thought was given, it seems, to what is necessary to obtain a successful multicultural society. This is not for a dearth of examples where such societies have persisted for generations, Centuries.
This, within a very few decades of Jews seeming to break through to full equality and acceptance in America and Western Europe.
I return to this after some hours, to betray my apprehensions. The fabric of Western polities has woven in diverse yarns, and, I think, with more success than was due to the arrogant elitism of the Political ascendancy. Yet certain carding engines threaten to shred some of the fabric to loose stuff. The politics of identity is one such carding: the anomie of poverty and unemployment is another. It seems but few, dissident Right wing intellectuals understand that the fasces that bind a polity, allusion intended, are primarily custom, protocol, social courtesy, and deep underlying cultural bonds, not Law, not Constitutions, not Contracts, and not Jackboots.
Germany held, under Hitler, because ultimately the National Socialists were led by National Mystics who harmonised with the popular aspiration, and did deliver under a National Socialist agenda. Yet as such regimes often do, they found the road to ruin. Think how the Germans contrived to immolate themselves.
That aside, Jews seem to hold at the top of Western society, whilst retreating on the ground.
Israel depends upon America. If America fails, and many reflective Americans consider that it will, then the fate of Israel becomes dangerous, doubtful. Their remaining chance is to negotiate to become some sort of Foederati of the Russians.
You can't be willingly ignorant of your responsibility for how you conduct yourselves on the world stage determines how you are preceived.
Is this islamophobia?
Hate crime. Saying true things is a hate crime now.
You are living in Israel, Britain is one of the lost ten tribes of Israel. This was taught by Herbert W. Armstrong of the Worldwide Church of God. His publications are published by many splinter groups and you can obtain a copy of his book, The United States and Britain in Prophecy.