¶ … pre-World War II anti-Semitic depiction of European Jews to the depiction of Muslims in Western media today Part of the depiction of European Jews prior to World War Two can be viewed as a subtle manifestation of anti-Semitism, ultimately foreshadowing the blatant discrimination and persecution that would come to unfold its wrath upon the world. A certain amount of this depiction can be seen in a never before published article that Churchill wrote, where he asserted that the reason that Jews were persecuted for so long, was not simply because of the wickedness of the persecutors (Reuters, 2007). In this article, Churchill essentially blames the Jews in part for their own persecution, a notion which highlights the very alive anti-Semitism of even educated people in the pre-Holocaust world. Churchill refers to Jews as "…sober, industrious and law-abiding and praised their readiness to fight and die for the country they lived in… Yet there are times when one feels instinctively that all this is only another manifestation of the difference, the separateness of the Jew" (Reuters, 2007). In this case, Churchill criticizes the Jews for being too aloof and urges them integrate more (Reuters, 2007). Churchill then criticizes Jewish employers for exploiting...
In this sense, they were called Christ-killers or communists. What such slander reflects is the notion that Jews were long othered even before the Holocaust.
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