In my experience most Chinese have hardly any idea who the Jews are, or anything about Judaism or about the history of the Jews etc etc
And EVERY time I have ever told any Chinese person that Karl Marx was a Jew, they’ve always been surprised. They all say, “No, he was a German” and I have to explain that the two identities are not inconsistent. Then I tell them that since the German Jews WERE Germans, Hitler was a traitor to Germany, a betrayer of his own people…ie, since German Jews WERE Hitler’s “countrymen”, he betrayed Germany by attacking German citizens….
A minority of them do seem to know something about the roots of antisemitism in the slander about being “Christ-killers”, but then they’re surprised when I point out that Jesus was a Jew. And very few of them know that Jesus was executed by the Romans. (However, I have met many American “Christians” who also seem to be oblivious to the simple fact that Jesus was a Jew, killed by the Romans)
At any rate, I agree with Danwei that overall, the Chinese tend to be either neutral or else marginally sympathetic to the Jews. HOWEVER I have encountered a few exceptions – some Chinese, in my experience, DO have a vague belief that “the Jews” are part of a worldwide consipiracy of bankers and capitalist exploiters. I have no idea how this idea got into China – although I might speculate, that some of the American “Christian” missionaries in China, might be partly responsible for spreading such ideas. But on the other hand, it might ALSO be a residue from the old Soviet influence in China – remember that Stalin was extremely antisemitic, and so were many of Russia’s “Communists” at least in Stalin’s time and after.
But overall most Chinese seem to have very few conceptions about the Jews, good or bad, except for a vague sense that the Jews have had a hard time – and the Chinese don’t understand why the Jews were persecuted. This says a lot for the common sense of the Chinese, who, being outside of the long history of antisemitism, just can’t see any reason for it…

June 16, 2005 @ 12:07 am | Comment

Great post Ivan, you make some good points.

I’m not one to see racism/prejudice when there isn’t anything there but I have noticed a sort of creeping sense of anti-semitism in the Chinese press.

I can’t quite put my finger on it as it’s simply a small observation but it did cross my mind that the few comments I’ve read a about ZOG, conspiracy thoeries even a mention of The Protocol of the Elders of Zion (!!!!) were perhaps a reporters attempts to appear “modern” or “international”.

As I say, it’s purely speculation on my part and I respect Danwei’s opinions on anything like.

I’d be interested in hearing ESWN’s take on this if he/she has one.

June 16, 2005 @ 12:54 am | Comment

Funnily enough, I was spending the week discussing Nazi anti-semitism with my junior class. No one in my class could understand why Jews were targetted so severely (and yet the Japanese were seen as stalwart allies), so this headline helped broaden the discussion and set it in a Chinese environment.

June 16, 2005 @ 3:36 am | Comment

A Taiwanese funded newspaper keeps carrying antisemitic slanders in their op-ed page for years. I wrote to them, to media officer of consulate of State of Israel, to Anti Defamation League, to congressman who is holocaust surviver, to anyone I can think might be interested – nothing happens. It’s so frustrating. I can’t believe no one cares.

Richard, next time that happens I’ll send the garbage to you. You must have some way to have it published and get the nasty Taiwaness racist apologize. Antisemitism is so rampant in Chinese diaspora and something must be done before it’s too late.

June 16, 2005 @ 5:37 am | Comment

The only anti-semitism I’ve come across in China was a former boss telling me that “Henanren are the Jews of China.” I think he was trying to explain something about Henanren’s attitude towards money…. I dunno….

June 16, 2005 @ 5:55 am | Comment

Martyn,
Thanks for your response to what I said, and I agree with you, that although kneejerk reactions to perceived “antisemitism” should be avoided, yet nonetheless there IS some kind of creeping antisemitism in
the Chinese press (AND in Chinese academia, especially among Chinese “scholars” of “International Politics”, which of course is a euphemism for “Rabid Chinese Nationalist Studies.” I have great respect for many Chinese scholars, but I have found that ALL, yes ALL Chinese experts in “International Politics” are rabid nationalists.)
And I am bewildered, as to where this surge of antisemitism is coming from in China, but I have been seeing more and more of it, and consistently among “scholars” of the nominal subject “international politics.”
For the record, a disclaimer, let me say that I am a Gentile (raised in one of the more conventional Christian churches, very unlike the Fundie creeps who call themselves “Christians” in America now) but I am also partly Jewish by blood, so I do have some bias about antisemitism, and maybe I’m a bit oversensitive about antisemitism.
But on the OTHER hand, strictly speaking I am not a Jew – and so maybe I am a bit less biased about this than real Jews might be – but even so, I have been stunned many times, and have begun to worry, about a SMALL but very ugly surge of antisemitism in China – and I am just as bewildered as any of you are, as to where it is coming from.
But I guess, one of the great mysteries of Humans, and of God’s plan, is that the Jews attract hostility, wherever they go. I could get a bit mystic here and suggest, that the crucifixion of Jesus was a symbol of the sufferings of all Jews….but that would be another thread… 🙂

June 16, 2005 @ 6:46 am | Comment

Dear friends,

I hope my comments could shed some light on the issue of “Jews in

Chinese eyes’.

I am of the opinion that Chinese people has no history of

antisemitism. As early as in Tang Dynasty there were already records

of Jews settling in ChangAn, the then capital of the Tang Empire.

Some historical relics even suggested that Jews might be the first

group of foreigners ever visited and settled in China. There were no

records of them being discriminated or singled out as an inferior

ethnic group. However, according to “Tang Shu” (Chronicles of Tang

Dynasty), many Jews, along with Persians and Christians living in China might be slaughtered during the armed insurrection led by Huang Chao in the end of Tang Dynasty. But I believe these massacres were committed indiscriminately against anyone who didn’t obey them.

I am a little surprised at Ivan’s stories about his experiences with

many Chinese who are so ignorant about Jews and Jewish history. I

doubt that these Chinese he met are well-educated people, because

even the junior high school history textbook of China (at least when I

was in junior high about 15 years ago) clearly tells that the great

thinker, philosopher, and revolutionary mentor Karl Marx was a German Jew. As high school students we were also told by our teachers that another two greatest Jews are Freud and Einstein. You know, these three names are so famous among Chinese students that the fact of all of them being Jews almost makes we believe that Jewish people is the cleverest people in the world. It’s interesting that many Chinese magazines and newspapers, out of blind egocentricism, claimed and are still claiming that the two cleverest people in the world are Jews and Chinese. If you know Chinese characters, please use “Jews and Chinese” and “cleverest” as key words and then “google” them, I bet you can find hundreds of links about that!

However, I have to say that common Chinese people do know

little about Judaism and the link between Judaism and Christianity.

Taking me as an example, when I was in the university, I for a short

period of time took the subject of “Judaism and Jewish history”, and I

once asked the teacher in the class, “I know that Jesus was sold out

by Judas who was a Jew, but Jesus himself was a Jew too, why is it

that most Western countries, which are followers of Christianity, had

such a bloody history of discriminating or even killing the inventor of

Christianity? ” I couldn’t call to mind clearly how the teacher

responded to my question, but I vaguely remember that he explained that although Jesus was a Jew by birth, he has been apotheosized, so physically being a Jew, a Persian or an Anglo-Saxon doesn’t matter

much, for it is his spirit that lives forever, not his body, and that

Judaism is very different from Christianity and it was because of Jews’

strong clasp of Judaism that made them the pins-in-the-eyes of many

Christians. I don’t know if his explanation holds water and I still don

not quite understand the logic behind that. So it will be highly appreciated if anyone in this blog can help me out.

Now I will try to explain why “many respectful scholars” of

“International Politics” in China seem to hold certain degree of

antisemitism. To my knowledge, it has more to do with contemporary

China’s perception of Palestanian problem than with the influence of

“Christian missionaries” or Stalin’s Soviet Union. In the eyes of Mao

and Chow, the founding fathers of the PRC, Arabian countries, being

long-time colonies of western powers, were natural born allies of the

people’s republic while Israel was a puppet regime imposed on the

Arabian land by the American imperalism. It was because of this

mindset that the PRC refused to establish diplomatic relations with

Israel untill 1992 although Israel was among the first group of

countries that recognized the newly founded PRC. I remember a

famous explanation by Premier Chow on Why China couldn’t take the

friendly hand extended from Israel–We couldn’t afford to lose so

many friends (Arabian countries) because of only one friend (Israel).
Even today, after 13 years of very friendly although sometimes disrupted diplomatic relationship with Israel, it is still politically incorrect for either politicians or academia to not support the “just cause of Palestanian people”, which inevitaly could not be cleared of the charge of “antisemitism”. It’s a hard moral debate in China, I have to say, when it comes to the question whether millions of Palestanian people shall be allowed to return to their motherland and given shelters on their holy land, especially when Chinese people still bear the bitter memory of being slaughtered and made refugee on their own land by Japanese invaders during WW II. I am not likening the Israeli government to Japnese invading troops, but it’s easy for us Chinese to relate to and sympathize with the desperation of Palestanian refugees.

Well, this comment has gone to long, I have to stop here and go to bed…

June 16, 2005 @ 10:44 am | Comment

Mainlander, thanks for those insights — it’s always valuable to see how native Chinese see these issues. I especially appreciate your observation that some Chinese consider the Jews and the Chinese the world’s cleverst people. Back when Reagan was president there was a very controversial book called The Bell Curve that claimed to use scientific formulae to chart which ethnicities were the most intelligent. Intelligence, the book claimed, is the result of genetics and race. It had the Chinese and Sephardic Jews (a branch of Judaism) as the two most intelligent groups. Personally, I think the book was rubbish, but it’s interesting to see its theories reflected in the examploe you gave.

I agree with Jeremy and others that China is not an antisemetic country. There are examples of some radical Chinese who are shockingly antisemetic and hang out at the China Daily BBS, but I believe (and hope) they are just anomalies.

This was one of the posts I saw there on the death of Iris Chang that alarmed me:

It was the jew
The jew is afraid that if Iris’s work would became more well known people would realize that the Japanese were much more cruel then the Germans.

For example:

“U.S. prisoners of war held by the Empire of Japan, 1941-1945 died at a rate exceeding 37% while in captivity. On the other hand, U.S. prisoners of war held captive by Nazi Germany died at a rate of less than 2% while held by the Germans.”

How can it be explained that America is obsessed with the “holocaust”? What there must be hundreds of “holocaust” museums and memorials throughout America? Why there are constant stream of “holocaust” movies and “holocaust” tv documentaries? Why are children forced to learn about the “holocaust” non-stop year after year while in school?

Sure there are picture of jews starving to death, but that is was happens when the allies destroyed the food source and food transpiration system.

People may start asking, why are the no pictures of the jew being tortured, decapitated, brutally raped, … by Germans but there are so many such pictures of what the japanese did to the chinese.

There is a new academic historical movement going on that is attempt to re-analyses the events which make up the “holocaust”. Why do you think there are some many Eroupean countries that have law making it illegal to do historical research in the area of the “holocaust” if the results indicate the current “fact” are not true?

I won’t bother pointing out the number of misstatements. Another gem:

Being as a Chinese who studied at a Jewish school and dated Jewish women,I learned so much
I hope my comments about the general pattern of suicide in America does NOT offend anyone and clearly I agree with everyone here we can not use statistics to predict and relate clinical depression and suicide.

As a Chinese who studied at a predominantly Jewish university in America and dated exclusively Jewish girls while I was in university, I only knew about the fact that six millions Jews were killed.

My Jewish girlfriend even told me her whole family were killed by the Germans during second world war and when I visited her in Detroit, she even took me to meet some older Jewish people who survived WWII and had the I.D. number clearly printed on their forearm.

This reminded me that ALL American people are brainwashed by the Jews that only the Jewish people suffered during WWII and they have never even mentioned anything about the RAPE of NANKING by the Japanese.

How pathetic are the Jews who used the media and the press to influence Americans that “ONLY JEWS SUFFERED DURING WWII” !!

What a lie the Jews are !!!

To repeat my main point: The Chinese people are probably among the least antisemitic on earth. Unfortunately, it’s idiots like this, using public forums, who risk giving the Chinese a bad name.

June 16, 2005 @ 12:02 pm | Comment

Talking about Sephardic Jews, Richard may not aware that the gem of colonial Shanghai – the Nanjing Road, the Bund, everything that made that city shine in 20s and 30s, would not have been possible without the prominent members of Sephardic Jews community, coming from then British midddle east.

On the other hand, due to political reasons, Chinese school children since communist takeover have not been told the true, balanced story of the Middle East. The State of Israel was/is described as an American puppet state to massacre Arabs by the official propaganda.

The shocking thing is that China keeps this campaign of lies even after she recognized Israel diplomatically. This massive brainwash cerntainly contributes to the antisemitic emotion among young Chinese.

June 16, 2005 @ 7:15 pm | Comment

Bellevue, where have you been? We could have used some of your insights recently.

Yes, I knew about the Jews in Shanghai, an amazing story.

I can’t say if there is any brainwashing against Jews and Israel – I simply don’t know, though there are obviously some very antisemitic people in China (and everywhere else). Right now, I suspect China is softening its stance against Israel because Israel is a major seller of high-tech arms to Chinsa. This is going to be the next crisis for the Bush administration. Some groups in the US are actually calling for sanctions against Israel. This will be a real tough one for Bush, because he does not like to stand up to Israel.

June 16, 2005 @ 7:50 pm | Comment

Yes, that concerns me, too. If I have to name any reservation for the support of the State of Israel, this could be one. And I cannot wait for a regime change here to handle this issue well.

The Jews and Shanghai story actually has two parts or even three: the Sephardic Jews (the Hardoons, Sassons who once left their name engraved); the Ashkenazys who gave Shanghai piano education, russian borsche (my favorite) and a statue of Pushkin; and the later part – European Holocaust survivers, of whom Zbigniew Brzezinski was one.

Recently the latest part raises fresh interests and a few books are about it. The research on the former two groups is still scanty.

On the State of Israel and China, Tel Aviv has always been very ‘soft’ on China. I can understand it’s for survival and strategy, but when under Chinese pressure the Israel government refuses to recognize Kaifeng Jewish commnity, it (strike out) disavows (strike out) undermines its own core value.

June 16, 2005 @ 8:20 pm | Comment

Ahhh Bellevue. Anyone else notice the irony of practically everyone else noting that China is far and away one of the least anti-semitic countries in the world. While Bellevue is on a tirade about anti-semitic brainwashing among Chinese? Food for thought.

As to the origins of anti-semitism within China. It’s more of a niche issue but I would place it probably to possibly early Jesuit missionaries or maybe late 19th early 20th century Protestant ones. Then again, there is actual evidence of Jewish “perfidy” if one searches for it. Following the Opium Wars, David Sassoon and his family, Jews originally from Baghdad I believe, became essentially the 19th century equivalent of columbian drug lords, having a government backed monopoly on the opium trade.

Not something that would engender a positive portrayal of Jews to most Chinese but knowledge of this is more or less esoteric and the focus and blame lies on British Imperialists and not the men who directly oversaw the importation and distribution of the drug itself.

June 16, 2005 @ 8:35 pm | Comment

Given the French problem with anit-semitism, and the tendency in the international community at large to “pile-on” in regards to villifying Israel, could this be an offshoot of China’s interest in becoming more of a player in the international community by taking on ideas from their would-be allies and elements of the community on the whole?
As my students like to regurgitate: “When in Rome…” Perhaps they wish to emulate the views of states in the international community with which they would like to have stronger ties with?

June 17, 2005 @ 1:57 am | Comment

With all due respect, equating support for the PLO with anti-semitism is muddling the issue. Israel is a political entity, separate and distinct from the Jewish ethnic/religious/cultural identity in general. The Israeli-Palestininan issue is complex and I won’t get into it here.

China has always been sympathetic to the Palestinian cause, yet anti-semitism was never the issue. Why is it that as Chinese-Israeli relations improve, the ugly head of anti-semitism in China is starting to emerge, albeit minimal for now? My guess would be that it has to do with China’s increasing exposure to western media and culture.

And one more thing, Israel’s refusal to recognize the Kaifeng Jews has more to do with the sinification and loss of Jewish traditions among the remaining descendants of Kaifeng’s Jewish community than pressure from the Chinese government. As oppressive as the CCP is, it has nothing to gain by preventing Israeli recognition of the Kaifeng Jews.

June 17, 2005 @ 7:27 pm | Comment

A Chinese living in Australia has invented his own justification for Anti-semitism:

I know why Hitler hates Jews 11/6/05 9:19PM

Reason only one: Jews think themselves the chosen people of the God. They are proud of their lengendary stories from the New, or Old, Testimonies (Bible). Then they looked down on other races including Germans. As a proud race itself the Germans could not tolerate this, and ended up resorting extremities of revenges to Jews.

http://www.chinese.net.au/forums/flat_read.php?board=3&id=1723&thread=1723

June 17, 2005 @ 10:14 pm | Comment

Chriswaugh_bj,
I read your comment on the BBS of Peking Duck, which I logging on for the first time.
I am a Chinese working at an university, I will try to answer the question why your former boss telling you
that “Henanren are the Jews of China.”
Actually in ancient China(especially at Song Dynasty), many Jews and Arabians came to China for many reasons,as Central China was most prosperous at that time,most of them came to Kaifeng City and stayed, as you know, Kaifeng City was the capital of Song Kingdom.
In fact, one of my college classmates came from Kaifeng claimed he was Jew’s descendant.Sure he had a figure different from a Chinese.
I will be glad to provide some materials about the immigration I downloaded from Chinese websites. contact me if you want larry-lee@etang.com

August 7, 2005 @ 9:26 am | Comment

Ha! I happen to be an expert on this subject. I’ve been discussing the rise of anti-Semitism in China for a few years now. I know this subject well because I am a part of the trend–I am becoming increasingly anti-Sematic myself, as most other Chinese I know are. (I am a Chinese expat.) Here I should explain why that is so.

In the past, most Chinese knew very little about Jews. The few Chinese who knew enough about Jews often had positive perception of Jews because:

1. Chinese admired Jews’ brilliance and accomplishments by the like of Einstein and Marx, as well as the Jewish ethics of education, hardwork and perseverance – the very same values that were held in the highest regard in Chinese culture.

2. Chinese empathized with the prosecution of Jews during the WWII holocaust, because Chinese themselves were prosecuted by Japanese during WWII.

For example: when I was a child, my parents had only good things to say about Jews. They often told me how Jews were a remarkable people because people like Einstein survived and thrived under adverse circumstances, even as they were being prosecuted by the Germans. Back then, my grandparents knew nothing about Jews. Today, I know more about Jews than my mother does and my father ever did (i.e., my dad passed away many years ago.) So, the awareness level of Jews among Chinese has been improving.

Although the awareness of Jews has been rising quickly in China, this new awareness is often accompanied by distrust and even outright anti-Semitism. In the Greater China, young intellectuals, the educated class and the new middle-class especially dislike Jews, even though most of them has personally met or known a Jew. (The so-called “Greater China” includes the mainland China itself, plus Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, and the Chinese immigrant communities like Chinatowns in the West.)

Why do the younger Chinese generations dislike and distrust Jews? Because:

1. Chinese despise how the US media, especially Hollywood, portray China and the Chinese people. They see the US media as always demonizing and belittling Chinese men while, at the same time, sexualizing Chinese women with White men. As more and more Chinese are being exposed to Hollywood productions (often through illegal downloads and pirated materials,) they strongly feel that the US media is making an effort to insult Chinese’ rising nationalist pride and racial image.

This is compounded by Hollywood celebrities who are often involved in the Free Tibet movement, which Chinese see as a pretense for bashing Chinese and a continuing effort of the racist Imperial West to “divide, weaken and subdue” China.

A few years ago, Chinese movie stars like Jackie Chan and Chow Yun-Fat, who had worked in Hollywood, actually came out one-after-another to openly criticized Hollywood racism against Asians. Their exposes has been widely publicized in the Chinese media. This has further confirmed what most Chinese believe, that Hollywood has an agenda against China and Chinese.

But what do the US media and Hollywood celebrities have to do with Jews?

2. Chinese perceive Jews as the controlling element behind the US media and Hollywood.

“Wait,” you said, “that claim is unfounded, that is just a conspiracy myth propagated by racists against Jews!”

Here is what how most Chinese see it: we know that nowadays Jews do not own the press or Hollywood per se, as the media and Hollywood are made up of corporations that are for sale for everyone (but maybe not for Chinese; I think there will be a hell to pay in America if any Chinese even tries to buy out a major US media company.) The technical word here is “own”. Even though Jews do not own the media, the people who run and work in the media or film business are Jews. Most producers are Jews. Most directors are Jews. Most screenwriters are Jews. Most journalists are Jews. Jews are the people who actually write the articles and make the movies in the press and Hollywood. Jews are the “decision makers” who run the show and call the shot. Therefore, Chinese see Jews as being directly responsible for all the anti-Chinese propagandas in the US media.

So, Chinese put the two observations together and conclude that Jews must be behind all the anti-Chinese propagandas in the US media and Hollywood. If you do not believe me, you can do your own research on the Internet. You will find out that Chinese anti-Semitism is directly connected to Hollywood: Chinese who posted messages about the “evil Jews” almost always referred to Hollywood as a rationale.

August 25, 2005 @ 4:12 pm | Comment

Just like to emphasize another point: anti-semitism is still very insignificant among Chinese. However, it is definitely on the rise, somewhat rapidly, mostly aided by the Internet and online discussions among Chinese.

August 25, 2005 @ 4:16 pm | Comment

Gee! How little I know about the world! Or how little I thought people would know about the world!
First of all, I dont think anti-semitism is a serious issue at the moment in China, and I’m not sure blog like this, free to express thoughts though, helps putting down or promoting anti-semitism. There is always a danger that bits and pieces of information either cause people to find out more or simply believe!
I have following points to make,sorry, the priority is poorly organized:
1. Given a group of Chinese people who know something about the Holocaust, only some of them may”doubtfully” distrust Jews .Though they dont accept Hitler’s madness against the Jews, and often they share with the Jews’ miserable experience as the Chinese suffered also tremendously against the Japanese invasion during WWII, they somehow might not rule out each and every accusation the Nazi held against the Jews at the time approahing and during WWII . Why? Even they know the Nazi wanted to fool their own people, and hopefully the rest of the world, what if 1% of the propaganda was true? The Chinese dont have a long and steady enough interaction with the Jewish people to have our own interpretation of the Jews. Jewish communities need to interact more with the social level organizations to build up communications and understandings, leaving no room for rumours or words of the vicious minds.
2. Hitler and the Nazi somehow have two faces in the mind of the Chinese people: firstly, Hitler was a cold-blooded evil man who brought catastrophic consequences to the Jewish people in WWII: secondly, he was an efficient commander of a highly modernised army who once swept across Europe and part of Africa. China had been a weak country for too long. It suffered countless military defeats against the western powers in most of the 19th century and early 20th century. That was the time Chinese military might was like “tofu”(bean curb jelly), resistance was human shields. Not surprising, the Chinese people had high respect for a well equipped, efficient, and victorious army and its leader. For example, the Kumingtang, in 1930’s the ruling party in China, once sent military offiicers to Germany for intelligence and military training in the hope of beefing up its military capabilities. The Nazi for some time, bullied and overpowered the western allies(some Chinese would say not even close) like the way the French, the English, the Italians, the Portugese, the Belgians, the Germans, the Americans, the Japanese, and the Russians once did to the Chinese during the time when numerous western nations colonised major cities in China. Did the Germans’military aggression against some of those nations which once imposed military aggression against China viewed by some Chinese as “internal turmoil within invaders”? Do these delusions play down the evil acts of the Nazi in the mind of the Chinese? These are frightening questions.
3. China had experienced corrupted feudalism, colonization, military defeats, civil wars, cultural revolution and trial and error reforms. After WWII, the Chinese people did not take any rest from wars, following were civil wars till 1949, the Korean war against the Americans in 1950’s, the Chinese people did not have free-flow, uninterrupted information about the outside world. Not even until 1978 when China began to open up to the world. Information flowing into China was controlled by the central government. The Chinese had had enough “bad influence” from the west, and there were still doubts about interacting with the outside world. Of course there was no internet then. Now, 21 st century, interests about the outside world flourish, but unfornately they are based on practical grounds, commercial and technical information, for example. Discussions about the Jews are defintely not common. It is not a taboo, it’s just not an issue in China, that’s all. I’m sure the majority of the people in China know little or nothing more than the Nazi have murdered 6 million Jews. In a way, the Chinese are relatively ignorant about anti-semitism let alone Judaism. As China opens up to the world and receives information by bits and pieces about Judaism and anti-semitism, there is a danger of a growth of anti-semitism as it might be perceived by the Chinese as an international trend or universally accepted norm in the west.
4. The Chinese government and the public have these few years begun to voiced out that the Japanese, who had committed horrific war crimes and causing 30 million deaths in China during WWII, should follow the way the Germans repented for their crimes in WWII, and that they should work towards a reparation to the Chinese like the Germans did to the Jews. The Chinese have a lot to learn from the Jews; they had overcome great difficulties in pursuing such reparation from the defeated Germans.
5. 60 years after WWII, I wish the world’s Jewish leaders will see a bright future in preparing the Jewish people in transforming from the victims of WWII to a people upholding world humanity. I dont know how people’s view of the Jewish people being the victims of WWII may have tilted over the years, in my opinion, some people may think justice has been served to the Jews and compensation has been sought, what’s more? a Jewish state has been built. What is left to be observed is where the Jews would like to go from here. I hope the Jews will move on to a higher moral level by offering support to the Chinese in the international arena in favour for a Japanese reparation to the Chinese. Both the Jewish people and the Chinese were major victims of WWII, the Jews got what they wanted from the Germans(more or less), but the Chinese got nothing from the German’s notorious counterpart in Asia, the Japanese. I dont want to sound like this is a condition; but if genuine help is offered to the Chinese people by the Jews on pursuing a Japanese reparation and disclosing of the then Japanese emperor’s war crimes and responsibility, and crimes against humanity, there will be absolutely no room for anti-semitism in a country populated with 1.3 billion people and numerous Chinese communities across the world! We are talking about a quarter of the world’s population!
6. The Jewish communities across the world are well organised and have far-reaching influence, whereas the Chinese dont have.

September 8, 2005 @ 8:11 am | Comment

Email me more on this histi\oric event hat took place
before i was born, but i always have this feel that
i have something in common with te jews.

August 20, 2006 @ 3:11 am | Comment