Diane Weber Bederman (from her blog)
Israpundit
begins a book review with a link to a Church of England PDF report on Antisemitism
perpetrated by Christians against Jews then goes on to examine “THE SERPENT AND THE RED THREAD: The Definitive Biography of
Evil” by Diane Weber
Bederman (Convivium bio,
Bederman Blog and her post about book) advertised as a
readable history of Antisemitism.
JRH 11/30/19
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THE SERPENT AND THE RED THREAD: The Definitive Biography
of Evil
November 30, 2019
The Church of England just shared it’s
report Titled “God’s Unfailing Word: Theological and
Practical Perspectives on Christian-Jewish Relations,”
The 121-page report said attitudes towards Judaism over
centuries had provided a “fertile seed-bed for murderous anti-Semitism,” and
that Anglicans and other Christians must repent for the “sins of the past,” as
well as actively challenge anti-Semitic attitudes or stereotypes.
The Serpent and the Red Thread is a book, a
documentary, about the oldest, most irrational evil: Jew hatred; told through
the voices of Biblical and historical figures. Ms. Weber Bederman takes you on
a journey through time, sharing the presence of history and our collective
memories, beginning where all time begins: The Garden of Eden, where we meet
the serpent who has in his mouth the red thread which he takes with him as it
connects evil through time. Ms Weber Bederman has chosen to incorporate the
Chinese literary device, the red thread, to connect the most evil of humankind,
the Amaleks of history. The ones who spread irrational hate.
All of the events are historical, factual, and
sometimes shared through the stories of the characters: Abraham, Sarah, Isaac,
Jesus, Paul and hitler. One need not be a student of the bible or history to
follow the travels of the red thread woven by the serpent from the Garden to
the present.
The Red Thread of Evil has found yet another home in the
hands of another group, the followers of the religion of Allah, who are intent
on accomplishing what no other regime or culture had been able to do: to wipe
the Jews off the face of the earth. Alarmingly, they have found many in the
West who make themselves willing accomplices in the campaign of lies and
distortions against Israel and the Jewish people elsewhere.
This latter-day incarnation of Evil frequently finds
accomplices among young people, uneducated and uninformed and easily taken in
by extremist diatribes.
That is why it is so important that this small volume with
its treasure of information presented in a readable, even gripping narrative is
placed into the hands of a wider public, but most especially impressionable
youths in universities and high schools. A timely document that will enlighten
those who are receptive to thought and the truth.
PRAISE FOR THE SERPENT AND THE RED THREAD
Diane Weber Bederman is very passionate in understanding the
evil mindset behind hatred against Jews. Her book ‘The Serpent and The Red
Thread’ is a sort of short history of historic incidences related to this evil
mindset. This book may provide a reference to our present day world leadership
in terms of curbing this hatred. Dealing with controversial and messy religious
and political history is not an easy task. Holocaust denial and growing
antisemitism can never be addressed precisely without addressing the root
causes of these hateful attitudes. — Tahir Aslam Gora TV
producer
Poetic, mystical, and prophetic, ‘The Serpent and the Red
Thread’ is a unique, unflinching look at the history of Jew-hatred from
Biblical era persecution through the Holocaust to today’s Muslim Brotherhood.
It is an essential reminder that the Jewish people have always been stalked by
evil, and yet always prevail. — Mark Tapson, Shillman Fellow
at the David Horowitz Freedom Center and author of Chivalry and the War on Men
It is quite an achievement. It’s the kind of
project–terrifying, daunting–that most writers wouldn’t even contemplate, let
alone carry through–and you did it with style and power. It is riveting.
— Janice Fiamengo, Professor of English at the
University of Ottawa
Drawing upon history and characters like Abraham, Sarah,
Isaac, Jesus, Paul and ‘hitler’, Bederman lays bare the human dichotomy between
good and evil, and love and hate. Exposing the tug-of-war within the human soul
and influenced by cultural impact, this book provides a creative, enlightening
and much needed crash course in human responsibility. The Serpent renders an
inescapable call to confront one’s deeper consciousness and the question to
one’s self: can one remain neutral and in denial in the face of egregious evil
without bearing a degree of culpability? as witnessed in the Holocaust. — Christine
Douglass-Williams, International award-winning Journalist and
best-selling Author of The Challenge of Modernizing Islam
From humanity’s first encounter with evil up until our
present time, author Diane Weber Bederman lays out the unparalleled, irrational
hate of the Jewish people. With often chilling prose, she takes us down the
historical paths of nations, religions and ideologies to uncover the webs that
trapped and devoured the people who gifted the world with compassion and
ethics. Citing often unfamiliar sources, the author unravels the thread of hate
that ran through primitive times yet also through the likes of the
Enlightenment. It was the progression birthed in the Enlightenment that
promised to better society, It was the same progression that set the stage for
the unparalleled and unprecedented pinnacle of enmity – the Holocaust.
Passionate, personal, and presenting the facts, this is much more than a book.
It is an indictment on a world that has forgotten that the mass industrial
murder of 6 million Jews on Europe’s soil was done in the name of culture and
progression. It is a cry from the heart, a warning. The serpent of antisemitism
has never been apprehended. It is on the loose again and it’s ravenous for
Jews. Today it leashes it’s venom at the Jewish homeland. The author burdens us
with the freedom of choice. Whoever we are, we have a moral duty to combat this
hate that in living memory saw to the annihilation of millions of human beings
in the name of progression. — Kay Wilson, author of The Rage
Less Traveled
‘The Serpent and the Red Thread’ chronicles the miasmal
hatred, pogroms, and ruthless antisemitism that continues to persecute the
Jewish people today. Bederman manages to bring beauty to this horror, which
makes her book an engrossing read for students and scholars alike. Diane Weber
Bederman offers the reader a fascinating documentary of antisemitism and its
inspiration from ancient times until today. Bederman deftly follows the red
thread of antisemitism that begins in the Garden of Eden, threads its way through
the descendants of Amalek, Adolph Hitler, and finally into the 21st century
where Islamic Jew hatred is Hitlerian in intensity. Antisemitism has managed to
wend its way through time and civilizations in its inexhaustible efforts to
destroy the Jewish people. The torch of antisemitism passes from generation to
generation by leaders who look to history to rationalize their savagery.
— Linda Goudsmit, author of Dear America: Who’s Driving the
Bus? and children’s series Mimi’s STRATEGY
It has been called the oldest and the longest hatred. It has
persisted through the millennia making its way through human history from
Antiquity to Modernity. As such, it has been directed at a small group of
people within a sea of vast multitude of people and singled it out for deprecation,
persecution, and attempts at annihilation. Much ink has been spilled to account
for, to explain and even justify and legitimize this phenomenon. Why the Jews?
Is the puzzling question to which there is no plausible answer except for those
who carry this evil in their hearts. Evil is the answer to be found in the
small volume by Diane Weber Bederman which she titled ‘The Serpent and the Red
Thread.’ Evil, she explains, has beset the world since the beginning of time –
which in this version is associated with the Creation as described in the
Hebrew Bible and the Garden of Eden. The beautiful parable of the serpent
planting the seed of evil in the heart of the first humans highlights the
eternal battle against the good. More often than not, it is the force of evil
that seems to win out over a more benevolent inclination. The ultimate form of
Evil finds its expression in the form of hatred of the Jews, or antisemitism in
a modern-day coinage. The author takes the reader on the winding trail this Evil
take in its variant forms – religious intolerance to cultural calumny
formulated in Christian Church doctrine and the race theories that sprouted
from the secularized modern era on and reached its culmination, its ultimate
explosion under the Nazi regime. As the author weaves and spins out this
thread—the Red Thread of Evil, she calls it in a felicitous metaphor—she
gathers together an enormous amount of material that documents the poison
spread by even some of greatest and most admired thinkers to the venom spewed
by the evil incarnate in the person of Adolf Hitler. She takes the reader on a
journey, a trail of tears and suffering experienced by few other groups. Yet,
even after the most catastrophic event of the Nazi murder of millions, the evil
of antisemitism that has hounded and pursuit the Jewish people is not
extinguish. In fact, in recent years it has gathered strength and its poison
has been spreading like an epidemic in the Middle East, where the Jews regained
their ancient homeland, Europe, and even America. As the author states, the Red
Thread of Evil has found yet another home in the hands of another group, the
followers of the religion of Allah, who are intent on accomplishing what no
other regime or culture had been able to do: to wipe the Jews off the face of
the earth. Alarmingly, they have found many in the West who make themselves
willing accomplices in the campaign of lies and distortions against Israel and
the Jewish people elsewhere. This latter-day incarnation of Evil frequently
finds accomplices among young people, uneducated and uninformed and easily
taken in by extremist diatribes. That is why it is so important that this small
volume with its treasure of information presented in a readable, even gripping
narrative is placed into the hands of a wider public, but most especially
impressionable youths in universities and high schools. A timely document that
will enlighten those receptive to thought and the truth. — Brigitte
M Goldstein, Ph.D., Historical Novelist
Diane Weber Bederman
Author of
Back to the Ethic : Reclaiming
Western Values
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capitulate to Facebook censorship by abandoning the platform, I choose to post
and share until the Leftist censors ban me. Recently, the Facebook censorship
tactic I’ve experienced is a couple of Group shares then jailed under the false
accusation of posting too fast. So I ask those that read this, to combat
censorship by sharing blog and Facebook posts with your friends or Groups you
belong to.
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