Merrie Olde England was never really as merry as the phrase suggests. From the time of the Celts to the Roman conquest, through the Anglo-Saxon-Frisian and Danish invasions, and into the time of Norman and post-Norman rule, and past the reign of kings warring with the Scots and the Roman Church, England—and I mean the whole of the island group from Falmouth to Dover to the Outer Hebrides and Orkneys—has been a land of petty squabbles and pitched battles, of brutality and imprisonment, and deaths so numerous no one has kept track. Among those killed on these brutal islands in addition to victims of religious and political wars, were those killed because of their ethnicity, namely Jews. That ethnic group, Ashkenazi Jews who had migrated to central Norwich before the coronation of Richard the Lionhearted, were the victims of massacres in 1189 and 1190.
A Word about European Genes
If the Out of Africa hypothesis is true, then an emigration of Africans from their native regions about 60 or 70 thousand years ago moved people through the Middle East and then into Europe and Asia. The product of the multi-generational dispersal of humans was the genetic stamp of those who spent some time in the eastern Mediterranean before moving north-by-northwest and east-by-northeast. Add to this early migration of genes the later ancient and medieval movements, and the Brits end up with a pervasive genetic relationship that ties many of its residents to the eastern Mediterranean in spite of the drive by many to maintain some sort of “ethnic purity.” In other words, the Brits who killed Ashkenazi Jews in the late 12th century were probably distantly related by virtue of those migrations. In fact, many Europeans probably have a bit of Middle Eastern DNA, as well as African DNA.
The Massacre
The details of the massacre of Ashkenazi Jews in central Norwich are not the sharpest of historical points. There is some controversy about its motivation and its execution. But it follows a pattern of exiling, persecuting, and killing one ethnic group by various other ethnic groups, that is, the scapegoating by historical precedent. For sundry reasons, such as blaming them for killing Christ and ancient rivalries over eastern Mediterranean lands, the Jews have suffered more than two millennia of persecution that has included attempted genocides.
In 2004, a medieval well discovered by archaeologists contained the remains of 17 people who were the Ashkenazi Jews that the locals massacred in Norwich. The bodies of men, women, and children had been dumped into a well. Were they the victims of that massacre? DNA evidence seems to suggest so. *
Rwanda and …
Remember the attempted genocide of Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994? Some 500,000 to 800,000 Tutsi deaths in a mere 100 days. ** Like the recent October massacre of Israelis by Hamas terrorists, Tutsis were subjected to unfathomable brutality during that killing period. But as everyone knows, that attempted genocide pales in comparison to the Holocaust during WWII.
And to what effect? No doubt there have been such genocides and attempted genocides over the past 200,000 years as one supposed ethnic group has attempted to eliminate a neighboring ethnic group. Attempted genocides surface in almost every generation. Some madness envelopes one ethnic group to slay another, even those with close genetic ties like the Palestinians and Israelis.
But throughout the past two millennia, no ethnic group has experienced more genocidal attempts than the Jews. And now, as Caucasian kids in universities and political leaders in America shout for their annihilation, we see that it’s not just one group against another, as in the Hutus against the Tutsis, but a wide swath of ethnicities all banded in their fury, their seeming hatred of a single ethnic group, the Jews, and not just the Jews in Israel, but Jews everywhere.
Who can fathom the reasons that someone belonging to African-American and European-American heritage can side with those screaming for genocide? Who can fathom that some supposed representatives of elite Hollywood, actors who wouldn’t even have a job without a history of Jewish entrepreneurship by people like Loew, Mayer, and Bronfman who made Hollywood a center of moviedom, that those elites would be either quiet about or advocate for the genocide of the Jews? The very business that made them rich and famous stands on the shoulders of Jewish producers, directors, and script writers. In fact, a large number of actors and actresses with whom actors of every ethnicity practice their craft are Jewish. And what American among those who should be aware of radical Islam’s history of abusing and killing people with “alternative sexual tendencies” just because of those tendencies, would back a radical Islamic group with a proven history of such brutality?
And yet, here we are. From some alphabet people through American Blacks, to American Caucasians, the young are marching for the end of Israel, an outcome that can only be achieved by genocide. Fortunate fools, aren’t they? All this comes after decades of Israeli concessions to Palestinian demands and the same decades of Hamas rule that has deprived Palestinians of freedom and economic success, conditions that no pampered college protestor would endure without complaint. With no millennia-long fear of genocide, these useful pawns have taken up a cause that can only result in more destruction and death, more torture and rape, more senseless acts of violence that might, if history tells the tale of such violence, spread into their own comfortable backyards.
I’m befuddled. I don’t understand this genocidal drive. Do you?
*Massey, Nina. 30 Aug 2022. DNA from remains found in medieval well ‘shines new light on Jewish history’ Independent online.
**https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan_genocide
A Word about European Genes
If the Out of Africa hypothesis is true, then an emigration of Africans from their native regions about 60 or 70 thousand years ago moved people through the Middle East and then into Europe and Asia. The product of the multi-generational dispersal of humans was the genetic stamp of those who spent some time in the eastern Mediterranean before moving north-by-northwest and east-by-northeast. Add to this early migration of genes the later ancient and medieval movements, and the Brits end up with a pervasive genetic relationship that ties many of its residents to the eastern Mediterranean in spite of the drive by many to maintain some sort of “ethnic purity.” In other words, the Brits who killed Ashkenazi Jews in the late 12th century were probably distantly related by virtue of those migrations. In fact, many Europeans probably have a bit of Middle Eastern DNA, as well as African DNA.
The Massacre
The details of the massacre of Ashkenazi Jews in central Norwich are not the sharpest of historical points. There is some controversy about its motivation and its execution. But it follows a pattern of exiling, persecuting, and killing one ethnic group by various other ethnic groups, that is, the scapegoating by historical precedent. For sundry reasons, such as blaming them for killing Christ and ancient rivalries over eastern Mediterranean lands, the Jews have suffered more than two millennia of persecution that has included attempted genocides.
In 2004, a medieval well discovered by archaeologists contained the remains of 17 people who were the Ashkenazi Jews that the locals massacred in Norwich. The bodies of men, women, and children had been dumped into a well. Were they the victims of that massacre? DNA evidence seems to suggest so. *
Rwanda and …
Remember the attempted genocide of Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994? Some 500,000 to 800,000 Tutsi deaths in a mere 100 days. ** Like the recent October massacre of Israelis by Hamas terrorists, Tutsis were subjected to unfathomable brutality during that killing period. But as everyone knows, that attempted genocide pales in comparison to the Holocaust during WWII.
And to what effect? No doubt there have been such genocides and attempted genocides over the past 200,000 years as one supposed ethnic group has attempted to eliminate a neighboring ethnic group. Attempted genocides surface in almost every generation. Some madness envelopes one ethnic group to slay another, even those with close genetic ties like the Palestinians and Israelis.
But throughout the past two millennia, no ethnic group has experienced more genocidal attempts than the Jews. And now, as Caucasian kids in universities and political leaders in America shout for their annihilation, we see that it’s not just one group against another, as in the Hutus against the Tutsis, but a wide swath of ethnicities all banded in their fury, their seeming hatred of a single ethnic group, the Jews, and not just the Jews in Israel, but Jews everywhere.
Who can fathom the reasons that someone belonging to African-American and European-American heritage can side with those screaming for genocide? Who can fathom that some supposed representatives of elite Hollywood, actors who wouldn’t even have a job without a history of Jewish entrepreneurship by people like Loew, Mayer, and Bronfman who made Hollywood a center of moviedom, that those elites would be either quiet about or advocate for the genocide of the Jews? The very business that made them rich and famous stands on the shoulders of Jewish producers, directors, and script writers. In fact, a large number of actors and actresses with whom actors of every ethnicity practice their craft are Jewish. And what American among those who should be aware of radical Islam’s history of abusing and killing people with “alternative sexual tendencies” just because of those tendencies, would back a radical Islamic group with a proven history of such brutality?
And yet, here we are. From some alphabet people through American Blacks, to American Caucasians, the young are marching for the end of Israel, an outcome that can only be achieved by genocide. Fortunate fools, aren’t they? All this comes after decades of Israeli concessions to Palestinian demands and the same decades of Hamas rule that has deprived Palestinians of freedom and economic success, conditions that no pampered college protestor would endure without complaint. With no millennia-long fear of genocide, these useful pawns have taken up a cause that can only result in more destruction and death, more torture and rape, more senseless acts of violence that might, if history tells the tale of such violence, spread into their own comfortable backyards.
I’m befuddled. I don’t understand this genocidal drive. Do you?
*Massey, Nina. 30 Aug 2022. DNA from remains found in medieval well ‘shines new light on Jewish history’ Independent online.
**https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan_genocide
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