Here’s a page from the Anti-Defamation League, which purports to ferret out hate groups:
When Jewish people recite the story of Passover, they recall that Pharaoh’s ignorance and hate led him to enslave the Israelites.
Let’s dig into their PDF:
The reality is that there is no evidence whatsoever that the Jews were ever enslaved in Egypt. Yes, there’s the story contained within the bible itself, but that’s not a remotely historically admissible source. I’m talking about real proof; archeological evidence, state records and primary sources. Of these, nothing exists.
Can we infer that the ADL is itself now a hate group devoted to making false accusations against Egyptians (ancestors of today’s Coptic Christians)? Without evidence that Egyptians ever did anything bad to Jews, aren’t they actually worse than any of the hate groups that the ADL complains about? (see White men correctly perceive American Jews as their enemies? for how at least some Jews take actions that are against the interests of groups within the U.S.)
Separately, Happy Passover to everyone who celebrates the “lure of victim status” (see “Factitious sexual harassment” by Feldman-Schorrig, Bulletin of the American Academy of Psychiatry & the Law 24(3)),
(This year I was smarter about acquiring matzah well in advance (from last year: “Do Carr’s Table Water Crackers qualify as mini-Schmurah Matzah?”)
Related:
- Is the Passover story the original false victimhood narrative?
- Should we make a COVID tyranny Haggadah?
- Passover 2021: Would Pharaoh have allowed Israelites to travel with a vaccine passport?
- Passover thoughts on slavery in Egypt
- Passover Tax Day thoughts (“slavery” in Egypt meant paying a 20 percent tax)
Well this contrived effort to link the
ADL to Pesach is an improvement over hearing once again from the noted Egyptologist Prof. Wikipedia; but a good place to start for historical record would be the first chapter of David Nierenberg’s brilliant Anti-Judaism.