A top Rabbi in Israel, head of a political party that had been a part of every coalition government for deacdes, used his weekly national radio address to say that all non-Jews exist purely to serve as slaves for Jews, that this was the reason they were created, and that the only reason any gentiles have longevity is that their Jewish owners would be financially hurt if they died too soon.
The most blatant expression of supremacism I've heard any public figure make in the last century or more.
When he died a few years later, instead of being a pariah, his funeral was the largest gathering in Israeli history, the largest gathering of Jews in one place since the Roman Empire, and both 'left' and 'right' wing Israeli PMs gushed over his Torah mastery.
It's a huuuge topic, but much of history has been written for modern audiences in a way that minimizes or erases the negative role that members of this group played. ie, the Muslim conquest of Spain should be more properly seen as the Jewish-Muslim conquest (https://poal.co/s/History/297303); the first US Sec. of Defense (Forrestal) wrote in his private diaries in 1939 that Chamberlain had told him that the UK didn't want war but America and Jewry were pushing her into war (The Forrestal Diaries, I can give the page number if you want); the Jewish Forward reported that 85-90% of all foreign individuals helping Mao's efforts were Jewish (A Jew in Mao's China, Laura Goldman, July 9, 2012); etc. etc. So many things like this, that are well documented but virtually unknown by most.
A top Rabbi in Israel, head of a political party that had been a part of every coalition government for deacdes, used his weekly national radio address to say that all non-Jews exist purely to serve as slaves for Jews, that this was the reason they were created, and that the only reason any gentiles have longevity is that their Jewish owners would be financially hurt if they died too soon.
The most blatant expression of supremacism I've heard any public figure make in the last century or more.
When he died a few years later, instead of being a pariah, his funeral was the largest gathering in Israeli history, the largest gathering of Jews in one place since the Roman Empire, and both 'left' and 'right' wing Israeli PMs gushed over his Torah mastery.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/5-of-ovadia-yosefs-most-controversial-quotations
It's a huuuge topic, but much of history has been written for modern audiences in a way that minimizes or erases the negative role that members of this group played. ie, the Muslim conquest of Spain should be more properly seen as the Jewish-Muslim conquest (https://poal.co/s/History/297303); the first US Sec. of Defense (Forrestal) wrote in his private diaries in 1939 that Chamberlain had told him that the UK didn't want war but America and Jewry were pushing her into war (The Forrestal Diaries, I can give the page number if you want); the Jewish Forward reported that 85-90% of all foreign individuals helping Mao's efforts were Jewish (A Jew in Mao's China, Laura Goldman, July 9, 2012); etc. etc. So many things like this, that are well documented but virtually unknown by most.