Racism and Hatred, Jews and Hindus

Hinduphobia and Anti-semitism

Jews and Hindus today face a fearsome onslaught of racism and hatred. What makes this hate pernicious is that today it is disguised as ‘anti-racism’ and concern for the ‘oppressed’.

Anti-Semitic hate is camouflaged as crocodile tears for Palestinians, while Hinduphobia takes the guise of concern for India’s alleged ‘lower castes and minorities’. Alarmingly, these toxic views fester in universities among alleged ‘academics’, who brainwash students.

In the past, the motives of hateful bigots were clearer. Nazis and fascists thought that Jews were inferior and wanted to exterminate Judaism. Hindu India was invaded and millions slaughtered by Islamic and then British invaders. The Moghul goal was to exterminate Hinduism and forcibly convert everyone to Islam, while the British looted the subcontinent and introduced Christian missionaries.

The enemies of Jews and Hindus are today, and always have been, the same. Even the ideology is similar.

Today’s campus bigots echo the fact that European fascism was born in universities and cultivated by (mostly) German ‘thinkers’. These ‘academics’ created a fantasy of a superior ‘Aryan’ race to provide an intellectual basis for conducting pogroms against Jews, and also to justify the colonial subjugation of the Hindu majority in South Asia.
 
For instance, German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer and Nazi theorist Alfred Rosenburg enthusiastically backed the now-discredited ‘Aryan Invasion Theory’. This theory postulated that South Asia had been invaded in 1500 BC by light-skinned ‘Aryans’ from Central Asia, who allegedly ‘imposed’ Hinduism on the native inhabitants and subjugated them with a caste system based on color.
 
This theory has now been repudiated by modern anthropologists, but it served its purpose. Since Hindus were alleged to be just another ‘invasive force’, the British reasoned that they had as much right to subjugate and rule the subcontinent as anyone.
 
The unforeseen consequence of expounding these beliefs of an Aryan master-race was the flowering of European anti Semitism which culminated in the Holocaust.

Radical Islam has always been ideologically allied to European fascism. Tunzelman’s epic book ‘Indian Summer’ reveals that racist British colonialists formed a devil’s pact with the Muslim League to encourage division in South Asia. Muslim complicity in the Holocaust is also well-known: the Grand Mufti of Palestine was able to easily recruit thousands to fight for Hitler.

Today, the neo-Nazi and Islamist alliance against Jews and Hindus is as strong as ever. David Duke is one of Iranian President Ahmedinajad’s fans. German-origin professors like Dr Witzel, who teaches at Harvard, launched a vicious attack against Hindu attempts to eliminate hatred in California schools.
 
Today, white supremacy, Islamism, and Nazism has infiltrated the ranks of alleged ‘leftist, progressive’ forces. To join forces with Islamists and to hate Israel is considered to be virtually compulsory for enrolment among these groups. Attacking Hinduism as an evil religion with an oppressive ‘caste system’ is another favored tactic of hate-mongers.
 
Hindus and Jews must unite to squash these toxic ideologies. Hindu leftists must disavow Islamist attempts to stir up anti Israeli sentiments, and Jewish writers and media personalities must understand that ‘Hindu nationalism’ and Zionism are natural allies.

Both Jewish Israel and progressive Hindu states such as Gujurat have built societies with the best human rights record on the planet. Our communities need to understand this about ourselves and each other.

The Hindu Conference of Canada and Speaker’s Action Group are holding a free joint event in North York on February 5th, ‘HINDUPHOBIA and ANTISEMITISM’, featuring Rabbi Roy Tannenbaum and Dr Ramesh Rao as expert speakers on the topic.

This is the type of inter-faith event which improves understanding and eliminates racism and hate. We need more of these.

For events details, please visit   http://www.hccanada.com/hindujewish.pdf. Register by sending email to   .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address), or phone 416-449-6484.

Ron Banerjee is director of public relations for the non profit Hindu Conference of Canada

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