Explanation: In Christian mythology, the Romans crucified the chief religious figure of Jesus Christ.
However, in that same narrative, the Roman official in charge, Pontius Pilate, formally and literally washes his hands of the guilt, instead blaming the crowd for demanding Christ’s death and threatening to riot if he did not accede.
… this would unfortunately contribute to antisemitism in later Christianity, with the Jews being blamed for Christ’s death by some Christian groups, despite Christ being… you know. A Jew himself.
And also that the whole thing was an elaborate method of absolution of mankind’s sins going exactly according to plan by Christ/God anyway.
yep, however this is antisemitic trop, not an antisionist one. The mem shall symbolize judaism accordingly with a hanoukkia, or a least with a golden maghen Dawid; the blue one in a nationalist symbol.
The antisemitism bit is just an additional detail; since Christians and Romans are depicted separately, I think it would be fair to regard the meme itself as discussing responsibility at-the-time.
I think menas was talking about using the country of israel to represent jews in the meme image.
I mean, it represents the provincial Iudeans Pilate accused of being responsible, many of whom were proto-ultranationalists who wanted a ‘pure’ Jewish country through ethnic cleansing and suppression of minority religions and heresies - like that of Christ. I don’t know that representing them as the Jews in general, who even at the time were widely dispersed across the Roman Empire, is more correct than representing them as more equated with modern Israel.
Like I said, the antisemitism bit in the explanation is just an additional detail.
Using the modern Israeli flag set over the borders of Palestine as a representation of the “Children of Israel” is just following along with their claim to be the sole representation of Judaism on an international level.
They’ve basically indoctrinated everyone into thinking that specific flag and those borders when they think of current Israel, but it isn’t historically accurate and you know it.
There’s an israeli flag in this meme, currently the most anti-semitic flag in the world. How can this meme not be anti-semitic.
