JAMES PARTON

This quotation shows that in 1870 there was already a Jewish Zionist return to Palestine from Europe and the US well underway. They were welcomed by the Islamic Ottoman government. Some Arabs have developed a propaganda narrative that claims that Jews were not in Palestine and Jerusalem in particular until the British Mandate after WWI where the Christians let them in against the desire of the Muslims. Some of these same people claim that there never was a Jewish Kingdom in the area of Palestine nor were there substantial numbers of Jews every in Jerusalem and Palestine. This evidence is just one of the many ranging from Muslim Ottoman Turkish land deeds and other Jewish ownership documents to the Roman Census of 7 AD showing the large Jewish Population in Egypt as well as what we now call Palestine and Israel.

One classic example was the fact that in 2012 about one third of Republicans believed that President Obama was a Muslim when he was a devout Christian. The infamous lie had 3 grains of truth: Obama’s father was a Muslim. his middle name was an Islamic name. and he had lived and gone to school as a young boy in Indonesia, the largest Islamic country.

He was one of the few Christians who were then aware of and commented upon the new Reform Judaism—a new Americanized form of Judaism that was then developing. America and its separation of church and state had become a fertile environment for the creation and development of new religions (Mormons, Christian Scientists) and new offshoots of existing religions (Pentecostals, Reform Jews). The Reform Judaism, which many orthodox Jews do not even consider it a legitimate form of Judaism, became, in less than a century the most popular form of Judaism for American Jews.

The Presidential Campaigns of 2008 and 2012 shocked many Americans for the blatant lies that opponents of President Obama wrote and broadcast and then some of the retaliatory lies that Obama defenders responded with. However, this quotation from a 19th century political historian shows us that blatant lying in American politics is not at all new.

Parton observed that the United States, by giving legal rights to Jews, set an example which improved the condition of Jews in many countries of Europe. There was much personal Anti Semitism in America then, but there was little difficulty for Jews in dealing and interacting with the government. America’s very existence and success since Independence was observed by much of Europe, and many tended to emulate the United States in some things. For many Europeans, the fact that Jews could be given all the rights of citizenship and nothing adverse was caused by that was the first time they had ever seen what their old cultures had feared for generations. The Papal States and Russia were as officially anti-Semitic as in the past while Sweden had recently given Jews full rights as citizens just as in the United States.

Parton observed that the United States, by giving legal rights to Jews, set an example which improved the condition of Jews in many countries of Europe. There was much personal Anti Semitism in America then, but there was little difficulty for Jews in dealing and interacting with the government. America’s very existence and success since Independence was observed by much of Europe, and many tended to emulate the United States in some things. For many Europeans, the fact that Jews could be given all the rights of citizenship and nothing adverse was caused by that was the first time they had ever seen what their old cultures had feared for generations. The Papal States and Russia were as officially anti-Semitic as in the past while Sweden had recently given Jews full rights as citizens just as in the United States.

This quotation shows that in 1870 there was already a Jewish Zionist return to Palestine from Europe and the US well underway. They were welcomed by the Islamic Ottoman government. Some Arabs have developed a propaganda narrative that claims that Jews were not in Palestine and Jerusalem in particular until the British Mandate after WWI where the Christians let them in against the desire of the Muslims. Some of these same people claim that there never was a Jewish Kingdom in the area of Palestine nor were there substantial numbers of Jews every in Jerusalem and Palestine. This evidence is just one of the many ranging from Muslim Ottoman Turkish land deeds and other Jewish ownership documents to the Roman Census of 7 AD showing the large Jewish Population in Egypt as well as what we now call Palestine and Israel.

He was one of the few Christians who were then aware of and commented upon the new Reform Judaism—a new Americanized form of Judaism that was then developing. America and its separation of church and state had become a fertile environment for the creation and development of new religions (Mormons, Christian Scientists) and new offshoots of existing religions (Pentecostals, Reform Jews). The Reform Judaism, which many orthodox Jews do not even consider it a legitimate form of Judaism, became, in less than a century the most popular form of Judaism for American Jews.

One classic example was the fact that in 2012 about one third of Republicans believed that President Obama was a Muslim when he was a devout Christian. The infamous lie had 3 grains of truth: Obama’s father was a Muslim. his middle name was an Islamic name. and he had lived and gone to school as a young boy in Indonesia, the largest Islamic country.

The Presidential Campaigns of 2008 and 2012 shocked many Americans for the blatant lies that opponents of President Obama wrote and broadcast and then some of the retaliatory lies that Obama defenders responded with. However, this quotation from a 19th century political historian shows us that blatant lying in American politics is not at all new.