Dennis Prager argues that antisemitism stems from resistance to the Ten Commandments and monotheism revealed at Mount Sinai, and that belief in that God is the solution. He criticizes modern Jewish responses and blames parts of the political left and Islamic world for today's antisemitism.
The solution to antisemitism, to Jew hatred, is the same as the cause of Jew hatred, in my opinion. So listen to this, this will fascinate you. The second holiest work in Judaism is the Talmud, written by rabbis about 1,800 years ago. And it's, it's a gigantic work. It's the size of the Encyclopedia Britannica. And the rabbis asked in it about 2,000 years ago, what's the cause of Jew hatred? And they answered with a pun on Hebrew words. And you'll get it because you won't know what the words mean, but you'll, you'll hear how similar the sound is. Sinai and Sina. Sinai is Sinai, Mount Sinai, where the Jews got the Ten Commandments. Traditionally believed where they got the Torah, but certainly the Ten Commandments. That's seen at Sinai. Sina is hatred. The rabbi's play on words was the Sina comes from Sinai, the hatred comes from Mount Sinai, which I believe The Jews have— the Jews disrupted the whole world with the concept of a judging God, a morally demanding God who is invisible, etc. So this was how the hatred began. And my insight is that that is how the hatred can end. Sinai, Mount Sinai, is the cause of Jew hatred, and Mount Sinai is the solution to Jew hatred. The more people who embrace the Ten Commandments as written in the Bible and believe that the, the God who revealed himself first to the Jews gave these Ten Commandments. The world lives by them. Jew hatred will subside. Jews have missed the boat in not spreading the Ten Commandments. Religious Jews don't spread much, except for one group called Chabad. And secular Jews spread secular religions, feminism, environmentalism, Marxism, socialism, communism, egalitarianism, I mean, you name the ism. All of those in any event end up anti-Semitic. The left and the Islamic world, not all Muslims, but the Islamic world are the most anti-Semitic places on earth today. So if Jews had done a better job spreading the Ten Commandments, I think there would have been less antisemitism. But I don't blame Jews for antisemitism. That's a little sick. It's like blaming blacks for racism or for slavery. Nevertheless, it doesn't mean the Jews can't do anything about it. So it was a fair question.
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