The Chinese Communist Party has a history of persecuting religions
And with nationalism on the rise
Antisemitism is becoming increasingly common
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The officially atheist Chinese Communist Party has a long history of persecuting religion.
Christians.
Muslims.
Buddhists.
And Falun Gong.
Now, the Chinese Constitution guarantees freedom of belief.
Just like it guarantees freedom of speech. In other words—only on paper.
And while China officially recognizes five religions—Buddhism, Taoism, Islam, Protestantism,
and Catholicism, the Communist Party keeps a tight grip on them with state-run places of worship.
Because why separate church and state when you can control the church with the state?
But you may notice Judaism was not included in that list.
So how are the Jewish people treated in China?
Well, if you know anything about history, asking how the Jewish people are treated
anywhere at any point has a 50/50 shot of being not great. As for in China,
well, let me introduce you to the Red Swastika society!
It’s…actually a charitable society that uses the swastika, because
the swastika has been a Buddhist symbol for thousands of years.
Meaning the tiny mustache wasn’t the only thing Hitler ruined for everyone.
So while China is full of swastikas,
according to China’s ambassador to Israel , “There is no antisemitism in China.”
Well, at least he was the former ambassador to Israel.
Before he was mysteriously found dead in his Tel Aviv home.
Look, sometimes Communist officials just mysteriously die.
Now there are only about 2,500 Jews living in China.
You might think that’s not enough people to bother persecuting. But you’d be wrong.
“Like every other religious minority they too are under attack in china.
The synagogues have been destroyed, their scriptures have been erased from walls.”
But the Chinese Communist Party isn’t just going after the tiny number of Jews living in China.
They’re supporting an antisemetic campaign against
ALL the Jews—the millions of Jews living in places like the US and Israel.
“Antisemitic tropes and sentiments have been propagated on Chinese state media,
encouraged by top Chinese diplomats, and rehashed by well-known Chinese political commentators.”
And here’s the thing—the Communist Party keeps a tight grip on speech, especially political speech.
So according to China expert Tuvia Gering , “A new wave of Jew-hatred
[in China] must be seen as not only tolerated, but openly promoted.”
For instance, in 2021,
state-run CGTNran a piece called “Why does the US act as a diplomatic shield for Israel?”
The answer? A secret Jewish cabal controlling the US government.
After Israel accused CGTN of blatant antisemitism,
CGTN seems to have deleted the video.
But nothing is ever truly dead on the Internet. So here it is. The video quality isn’t great.
Some people believe that US pro-Israel policy is traceable to the influence of wealthy Jews
in the US and the Jewish lobby on US foreign policy makers.
INdeed there are over five million Jewish people in the US,” and that 18 of the top 40 people on
the Forbes World’s Billionaires List are Jewish. Jews dominate finance, media and Internet sectors.
I’m not too worried about that, though. I mean, when has
a country full of swastikas saying the Jews control all
of the world’s wealth ever led to anything bad?
Again, that video was from the Chinese Communist Party’s mouthpiece.
And their over simplistic antisemtiic narrative doesn’t even have basic facts right.
There are more than seven million Jews in the US, not 5 million. And there are only 8 Jews,
not 18, among the top 40 people on the Forbes World’s Billionaires list. And keep in mind
that’s a World Billionaire list, not just the US. Might those factual slip ups be an
attempt to make Jewish influence in the US seem more disproportionate? Perhaps even sinister?
Why do so many antisemitic tropes treat Jewish people like Batman villains? That makes no sense.
Especially since
Batman is the most Hebrew hero of all time. He’s rich, intelligent, and driven by guilt. That’s why
he has a teen sidekick. “You’re 13, that means you’re a man now, Robin. Happy Bar Mitzvah.”
But that one state run media report is just scraping the surface of antisemitism in China.
I’ll tell you more about why the CCP is pushing antisemitism after the break.
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Antisemitism is on the rise in China.
And that must make Jewish people feel
truly betrayed. After all the times they ordered Chinese food on Christmas.
And antisemitism is being heavily pushed by political commentators on the Chinese internet.
Take the nationalist "influencer" Yu Li, who goes by the pen name Sima Nan. He’s a Party member,
ex-journalist, lecturer, and government employee.
Well, in this piece he basically claims Israel was behind 9/11.
“They say 9/11 was Bin Laden’s doing, but those hijackers were almost all from Saudi Arabia,
and what is the relationship between Saudi Arabia and Israel?”
Sima Nan also talks about the “Israeli-Zionist-butchers-backed
Jewish capital groups.”
Celebrated Academic, Fudan University professor Wen
Yang talks about the “Jewish mindset that everything is commercial”
and, “The most successful parasitic business model of the Jews was nothing else but to
‘control the key technologies, the finance and the logistics, and make everyone dependent on them.’”
Influential University Professor Zhang Wenmu asks,
“Why has Ukraine become Jewified, and why has Israel put up with it?
It’s because Wall Street wanted to plant a quasi-Israel in this problematic European region.”
So Putin says Ukraine is Nazified. While Wenmu says, “Actually… it’s
Jewified!” That’s, uh… that’s the whole spectrum right there, isn’t it?
Perhaps the worst is Lu Kewen. He’s an incredibly popular Chinese internet
commentator. He has 15 million subscribers across several Chinese social media platforms.
Here’s a piece he wrote called “What Should We Make of the Jews?”
Considering how racist this piece is,
the answer to that question may as well have been “lampshades.”
It’s a smattering of medieval antisemitic tropes, Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and Mein Kampf.
AKA the holy trinity of propaganda used to bash people who don’t believe in the holy trinity.
Lu has written extensively about “the Jews.” For instance, claiming that they
were the ones really pulling the strings in the Opium Wars of the 19th Century.
According to Lu, “​​Jews are manipulators, penny-pinchers, loan sharks, and drug dealers.”
The worst though are the American Jews, who “took control of the three
cornerstones of American society, namely finance, media, and culture.”
Man, if you made a list of things the Jewish people are accused of,
it’d sound like lyrics to “We Didn’t Start the Fire.”
Now again, keep in mind that the Chinese internet is heavily controlled and
censored by the Chinese Communist Party.
Lu could not be making these claims
unless the Chinese government didn’t see anything wrong with them.
For instance, the Chinese Embassy in Japan
tweeted an antisemitic version of this grim reaper meme, wearing an American flag, with a scythe
colored like the Israeli flag. And he’s going door to door killing people in the Middle East.
So why is all this anti-semitism happening?
Well, the Chinese Communist Party is becoming increasingly nationalistic and isolationist.
So the idea that a sinister, shadowy group is controlling foreign countries,
particularly America, to undermine China
is great propaganda for a regime that wants to cut off China from
the rest of the world and make its population fearful of anything foreign.
Of course, there actually is a shadowy group using finance to control foreign countries,
including America. But it’s not the Jews. It’s the Chinese Communist Party.
And now, as a thank you to the China Uncensored 50 Cent Army, I’ll answer one of their questions.
Today’s question comes from Daniel Atkinson, a brand new supporter on Patreon. Hi,
from Australia, our defense minister Richad Marles met with his Chinese counterpart a few days ago,
and has been quoted saying “Australia doesn’t support Taiwan independence” and “we support
the One China policy.” In my opinion, I find that cowardly and potentially dangerous.
What’s your guy’s thoughts. Love the show and the humor by the way.
Well thank you Daniel. So unfortunately,
that line about Taiwan independence and the One China policy seem to be the standard.
I’ve talked about how in May, the Biden Administration removed the line,
“we do not support Taiwan independence” from the State Department’s page on Taiwan.
But this month added it back in.
And yes, I think this is a cowardly and extremely dangerous line to take.
Strategic ambiguity as they call it, did not prevent Russia’s invasion of
Ukraine—it fostered it. Same with Taiwan. You stop a bully by standing up to him,
not by being wishy-washy. And the Chinese Communist Party is a bully.
I know there’s a new administration in Australia
and people want to know how it will handle China, and it’s been unclear.
On the positive side of things, the first thing the new prime minister did was to travel to a Quad
meeting, that’s an alliance of the US, Australia, Japan, and India aimed at countering China.
But there’s also been rumors of a China reset. We’ll just have to
wait and see how they actually act toward China.
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