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Are Jewish Expulsions Evidence for the Fifth Column Hypothesis?

Some in the Alt-Right believe that the large number of Jewish expulsions from cities and
nations all over Europe constitutes prima facie evidence that Jews in general are inherently
predisposed to undermining the nations of gentiles. However, I think this line of thinking is
wrong on two fronts.
First, for the sake of argument, lets assume that Jewish expulsions werent merely
carried out on grounds of irrational prejudice. Lets assume that genuine Jewish undermining
of gentile territories was really going on. Let us then recall the fact that historically, Jews have
been rather insular (tending strongly to interact with their in-group to the exclusion of outsiders).
Thus the Jew on the street generally didnt cross paths with his gentile counterpart. Jewish Elites
(on the other hand) were the most likely Jewish group to interact with European gentiles. As
such, it seems highly plausible to think that if there really was Jewish undermining going on,
that this activity could have easily been confined to Jewish elites. In other words, European
gentiles may have formed negative stereotypes about Jews (stereotypes that eventually resulted
in Jewish expulsions) that were only characteristic of Jewish elites and NOT the Jewish general
public. Put another way, the same reason why some in the Alt-Right have a negative view of
Jews today (i.e. knowledge of the enormous misdeeds of Jewish elites) may have also been the
historical reason why many of our Christian ancestors had a negative view of Jews.
Secondly, the fundamental problem with using Jewish expulsions as evidence of Jewish
nefariousness involves the matter of religion. Obviously Christianity predisposed Europeans to
have an inherently negative view of Jews for purportedly killing their lord and savior. In all the
areas in which Jews were expelled from Europe, Christianity was, without question, the
dominant religion. Thus religious intolerance may very well explain the expulsions.
I do not mean to suggest here that either religious intolerance or the nefariousness of
Jewish elites completely explains all of the Jewish expulsions from cities and states across
Europe. It is certainly possible that the Jewish public was indeed engaged in systematic cases of
undermining. Moreover, the expulsions may have occurred for any number of other reasons. My
only point here is that the plausibility of alternative explanations for Jewish expulsions,
explanations that we cannot rule out, entails the following: Jewish expulsions cannot be used as
prima facie evidence that Jews are inherently predisposed to undermine gentile societies (as
alternative theories fit the same data just as well).

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