"And many from among the peoples
of the land became Jews;
for the fear of the Jews was
fallen upon them.
- Esther
8:17
The bent-armed raised fist gesture was
introduced by the Bolsheviks, but
unsurprisingly, it's a Jewish symbol,
and a decidedly anti-Christian one.
Purim, the annual Jewish
celebration of the genocide of 75,000
Persians.
Over 1600 years ago the
Byzantine emperor
Theodosius II issued a decree forbidding
Jews from burning effigies
on Purim. Jews insist
the effigy was/is of
Haman, the
anti-Semite from the Book of
Esther, but as the effigy was
on a cross, people
suspected it really represented
Jesus. More honest Jews have written
that
Jews have actually crucified Christians
on Purim to mock Christianity.
Professor Israel Shahak of Hebrew
University of Jerusalem wrote of:
"... many well-documented cases of
massacres of Christians and mock
repetitions of the
crucifixion of Jesus on Purim,
most of which occurred either in the
late ancient period
or in the Middle Ages. (Some
isolated cases occurred in
sixteenth-century Poland.)"
Jewish History, Jewish Religion: The
Weight of Three Thousand Years,
Chapter 5, note 70 - Israël Shahak
From the 1870 Cyclopaedia of Biblical,
Theological, and Ecclesiastical
Literature, Volume 3
"the custom at the mention of
Haman's name to hiss, and stamp, and
clench the
fist, and cry, Let his name be
blotted out; may the name of the wicked
rot."
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