Carter at Cardozo: Its Not the New-Anti-Semitism Its the Older Kind
April 10, 2013
By Charles Jacobs and Ilya Feoktistov
The Yeshiva Universitys Cardozo Law School is facing a fire storm of protest for honoring former President Jimmy Carter because of Carters animus towards Israel. But who they indeed may be about to honor is an old fashioned anti-Semite.
As decades-old tapes from his Church Sunday school lessons reveal, former President Jimmy Carters bias against the Jewish state may come more from an old fashioned Christian animus toward Judaism than from concerns over the situation of Palestinians. Carter taught Christian students in Plains Georgia that Judaism teaches Jews to feel superior to non-Jews, that Jewish religious practices are tricks to enhance wealth, and that current Israeli policy toward Palestinians is based on these Jewish values and practices.
In a series of sermons Carter recorded between 1999 and 2003 that were published as a CD set by Simon and Schuster called Sunday Mornings in Plains, Carter attacks modern Israel by retreading ancient anti-Semitic tropes that go back to the early church fathers and the Judaism/Christianity schism that gave birth to a millennia of Christian persecution of Jews.
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In the tapes, one hears in Southern drawl his ancient animus: Jews hate non-Jews.:
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Carters beef with the Jews is not simply a disagreement over how Israel should treat the Palestinians. His is a deep theological hatred of the type that most Christians (including the Vatican in the 1960s Nostra Aetate) have long disavowed. This is not the new anti-Semitism: its the old. All the more indefensible for an orthodox Jewish religious institution to give this man an award.
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