Shane Schaetzel †☧ (@RealClearCatholic)

My Position on “the Jews.” While I am a strong anti-Zionist for both religious and political reasons, that is not antisemitism. I have always rejected antisemitism, since childhood, I’m not about to start embracing it now as a man in my 50s. You can’t teach an old dog new tricks, and antisemitism is a trick I don’t care to learn anyway. Still, many people want me to “do more research” and “look harder.” I have resisted this until recently. Here are the results of my studies…👇🏻 Antisemitism is a lazy man’s history. Jews are 2% of the U.S. population. While they are overrepresented in medicine, law, and some finance jobs. (Hindus are more overrepresented among doctors relative to their numbers). That is due to education, cities, and portable trades — not a board of directors for Western civilization. No ethnic group “owns” American hospitals, the Fed, or Disney. Index funds do. Hollywood’s founders were Jewish immigrants in a new, low-status trade back then. Hollywood’s stockholders today are not. The Talmud does have hostile lines about “Yeshu” and cold legal talk about sex with minors. So did Roman law. The first is late rabbinic polemic, not history. The second is sophistry about legal effect, not a permit. Viral “quotes” that say otherwise are forgeries with over a century of mileage. So my opinion remains unchanged. Antisemitic tropes about “Jews controlling the world” are pure 🐂 💩. The Catholic Church is the New Israel. That doctrine does not require Protocols fiction. Jews are our elder brethren. They are not our puppets, and we are not theirs. Truth is enough. Lies are for people who don’t have it. If you’re a Catholic, stick to the teaching of the Church. It’s all you need.