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This theme, the "practical domination" of ''Judentum'' over America, would later be exploited by the Nazis, who would label the United States a "Jewish Dictatorship,"<ref>Jeffrey Herf, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=T3EZ50uDlSoC The Jewish enemy: Nazi propaganda during World War II and the Holocaust]'' (Harvard University Press, 2006) ISBN 0674021754, p. 48</ref> claiming that Jews had "economic life in New York... entirely under their control," and through newspapers "controlled by the Jews" influenced American public opinion: "The question is whether the American people want to make the Jews happy by engaging in fruitless conflict with the German Reich and the German people."<ref>Joseph Goebbels, "[http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/goeb28.htm What Does America Really Want?]" ''Völkischer Beobachter'', January 21, 1939 [“Was will eigentlich Amerika,” Die Zeit ohne Beispiel (Munich: Zentralverlag der NSDAP., 1941), pp. 24-30]) This association of Jews with America would  be reprised in 2006, when German Neo-Nazis burned a copy of ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=y50yo2rnJHcC Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl]'' along [http://www.ejpress.org/article/news/germany/9582 with an American flag].</ref> This argument has since been reclaimed by the left, with charges of Jewish influence once again leading America into war.<ref>It has recently been charged that "large and extremely influential Jewish donor groups are... agitating for a U.S. war against Iran" (Glenn Greenwald, as quoted in Adam Levick, "[http://www.jcpa.org/JCPA/Templates/ShowPage.asp?DRIT=3&DBID=1&LNGID=1&TMID=111&FID=624&PID=0&IID=3211&TTL=Anti-Israelism_and_Anti-Semitism_in_Progressive_U.S._Blogs/News_Websites:_Influential_and_Poorly_Monitored Anti-Israelism and Anti-Semitism in Progressive U.S. Blogs/News Websites: Influential and Poorly Monitored]," ''Post-Holocaust and Anti-Semitism'' (Institute for Global Jewish Affairs), No. 92, [December 2010]); that a "secret Jewish coalition [is] raising funds in excess of $200 million to wage a propaganda war in America in an attempt to gain American support for another war against Iran" (PoliSci 000, "[http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/6/21/12160/0406/272/539749 Apartheid Israel Trying to Start World War 3]," dailykos.com, June 21, 2008); that "Israel's powerful lobbies" in the U.S. have "embraced Israel's approach to Iran" creating a "serious stumbling block" to peace, that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's demand that Israel be "[http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/26/world/africa/26iht-iran.html wiped off the map]" was misinterpreted, whereas "the threat is the other way around" (Phyllis Bennis, "[http://www.ips-dc.org/reports/iran_in_the_crosshairs Iran in the Crosshairs]," Institute for Policy Studies, February 28, 2008); that "a great power like the US [is] being dictated to in the conduct of its own foreign policy" by Israel (Andrew Sullivan, "[http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2010/01/sick-of-the-israelis-and-the-palestinians.html 'Sick' Of The Israelis And The Palestinians]," theatlantic.com, January 6, 2010), etc.</ref> This idea linking America and the Jews has powerful roots.<ref>"Several chroniclers of early New England have enumerated the founders' remarkable and quite widespread attempts to create, as well as to evoke through rhetorical means and typologies, a New Israel." (Michael Hoberman, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=tKvzmDezJkkC New Israel/New England: Jews and Puritans in Early America]'' [University of Massachusetts Press, 2011] ISBN 1558499202, p. 25) "No Christian community in history identified more with the People of the Book than did the early settlers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, who believed their own lives to be a literal reenactment of the Biblical drama of the Hebrew nation... these émigré Puritans dramatized their own situation as the righteous remnant of the Church corrupted by the 'Babylonian woe,' and saw themselves as instruments of Divine Providence, a people chosen to build their new commonwealth on the Covenant entered into at Mount Sinai." (Gabriel Sivan, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=gcoOAAAAIAAJ The Bible and Civilization]'' [Keter Pub. House Jerusalem, 1973], p. 236) "The Puritans saw themselves as the Israelites, fleeing Pharaoh (the king) across the Red Sea (the Atlantic)." (Karin J. Goldstein, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=D5jLfqWJTJgCA History of Jewish Plymouth]'' [The History Press, 2013] ISBN 160949511X, p. 14)

This theme, the "practical domination" of ''Judentum'' over America, would later be exploited by the Nazis, who would label the United States a "Jewish Dictatorship,"<ref>Jeffrey Herf, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=T3EZ50uDlSoC The Jewish enemy: Nazi propaganda during World War II and the Holocaust]'' (Harvard University Press, 2006) ISBN 0674021754, p. 48</ref> claiming that Jews had "economic life in New York... entirely under their control," and through newspapers "controlled by the Jews" influenced American public opinion: "The question is whether the American people want to make the Jews happy by engaging in fruitless conflict with the German Reich and the German people."<ref>Joseph Goebbels, "[http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/goeb28.htm What Does America Really Want?]" ''Völkischer Beobachter'', January 21, 1939 [“Was will eigentlich Amerika,” Die Zeit ohne Beispiel (Munich: Zentralverlag der NSDAP., 1941), pp. 24-30]) This association of Jews with America would  be reprised in 2006, when German Neo-Nazis burned a copy of ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=y50yo2rnJHcC Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl]'' along [http://www.ejpress.org/article/news/germany/9582 with an American flag].</ref> This argument has since been reclaimed by the left, with charges of Jewish influence once again leading America into war.<ref>It has recently been charged that "large and extremely influential Jewish donor groups are... agitating for a U.S. war against Iran" (Glenn Greenwald, as quoted in Adam Levick, "[http://www.jcpa.org/JCPA/Templates/ShowPage.asp?DRIT=3&DBID=1&LNGID=1&TMID=111&FID=624&PID=0&IID=3211&TTL=Anti-Israelism_and_Anti-Semitism_in_Progressive_U.S._Blogs/News_Websites:_Influential_and_Poorly_Monitored Anti-Israelism and Anti-Semitism in Progressive U.S. Blogs/News Websites: Influential and Poorly Monitored]," ''Post-Holocaust and Anti-Semitism'' (Institute for Global Jewish Affairs), No. 92, [December 2010]); that a "secret Jewish coalition [is] raising funds in excess of $200 million to wage a propaganda war in America in an attempt to gain American support for another war against Iran" (PoliSci 000, "[http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/6/21/12160/0406/272/539749 Apartheid Israel Trying to Start World War 3]," dailykos.com, June 21, 2008); that "Israel's powerful lobbies" in the U.S. have "embraced Israel's approach to Iran" creating a "serious stumbling block" to peace, that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's demand that Israel be "[http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/26/world/africa/26iht-iran.html wiped off the map]" was misinterpreted, whereas "the threat is the other way around" (Phyllis Bennis, "[http://www.ips-dc.org/reports/iran_in_the_crosshairs Iran in the Crosshairs]," Institute for Policy Studies, February 28, 2008); that "a great power like the US [is] being dictated to in the conduct of its own foreign policy" by Israel (Andrew Sullivan, "[http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2010/01/sick-of-the-israelis-and-the-palestinians.html 'Sick' Of The Israelis And The Palestinians]," theatlantic.com, January 6, 2010), etc.</ref> This idea linking America and the Jews has powerful roots.<ref>"Several chroniclers of early New England have enumerated the founders' remarkable and quite widespread attempts to create, as well as to evoke through rhetorical means and typologies, a New Israel." (Michael Hoberman, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=tKvzmDezJkkC New Israel/New England: Jews and Puritans in Early America]'' [University of Massachusetts Press, 2011] ISBN 1558499202, p. 25) "No Christian community in history identified more with the People of the Book than did the early settlers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, who believed their own lives to be a literal reenactment of the Biblical drama of the Hebrew nation... these émigré Puritans dramatized their own situation as the righteous remnant of the Church corrupted by the 'Babylonian woe,' and saw themselves as instruments of Divine Providence, a people chosen to build their new commonwealth on the Covenant entered into at Mount Sinai." (Gabriel Sivan, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=gcoOAAAAIAAJ The Bible and Civilization]'' [Keter Pub. House Jerusalem, 1973], p. 236) "The Puritans saw themselves as the Israelites, fleeing Pharaoh (the king) across the Red Sea (the Atlantic)." (Karin J. Goldstein, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=D5jLfqWJTJgCA History of Jewish Plymouth]'' [The History Press, 2013] ISBN 160949511X, p. 14)

Today, the affinity of America for the Jews has given rise to the anti-Israel movement, which twins anti-Americanism with anti-Semitism, with both America and the Jews serving as symbols of capitalism. “The anti-American left... is at least as anti-Jewish as the clerical conservative right, especially among those who have embraced a pronounced 'antifascist' and 'antiracist' credo.” (Robert S. Wistrich, ''[http://www.ajc.org/atf/cf/%7B42D75369-D582-4380-8395-D25925B85EAF%7D/wistrich.pdf European Anti-Semitism Reinvents Itself],'' [The American Jewish Committee, 2002], p. 11) "Anti-Americanism in the Islamic world and Anti-Americanism in Europe are in fact linked, and both bear an uncanny resemblance to anti-Semitism." (Natan Sharansky, "On Hating Jews: The inextricable link between anti-Semitism and anti-Americanism," ''The Wall Street Journal'', November 17, 2003) "America and Jews are seen by many Europeans as paragons of a modernity they dislike and distrust: money-driven, profit-hungry, urban, universalistic, individualistic, mobile, rootless, inauthentic, and thus hostile to established traditions and values." ("[http://www.jcpa.org/JCPA/Templates/ShowPage.asp?DRIT=3&DBID=1&LNGID=1&TMID=111&FID=624&PID=0&IID=658&TTL=European_Anti-Americanism_and_Anti-Semitism:_Similarities_and_Differences European Anti-Americanism and Anti-Semitism: Similarities and Differences]," An Interview with Andrei S. Markovits, ''Post-Holocaust and Anti-Semitism'' [Institute for Global Jewish Affairs], No. 16 [January 1, 2004]) "Jews were blamed for the evils of capitalism in earlier centuries. Americans are blamed for globalization, that is, technological and economic change to the max, in our days." (Josef Joffe, quoted in Mark O'Keefe, "[http://pewforum.org/Politics-and-Elections/Anti-Semitism-and-Anti-Americanism.aspx Anti-Semitism and Anti-Americanism]," Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, May 5, 2006) "America today has become the world's market-dominant minority," while "Jews are a market-dominant mionority in the Middle East." (Amy Chua, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=KSp1okOggpkC World on fire: how exporting free market democracy breeds ethnic hatred and global instability]'' [Random House, Inc., 2004] ISBN 0385721862, pp. 218, 229) Thus post-unification Germany, observed a journalist in 2005, is marked by "a poisonous cocktail of the three big As: anti-Americanism, anti-Semitism and anti-capitalism." (Wolfgang Munchau, "[http://www.spectator.co.uk/essays/13684/part_2/antiamericanism-antisemitism-anticapitalism.thtml Anti-Americanism, anti-Semitism, anti-capitalism]," ''The Spectator'', May 21, 2005) This association of Jews with America was demonstrated in 2006, when German Neo-Nazis burned a copy of ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=y50yo2rnJHcC Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl]'' along [http://www.ejpress.org/article/news/germany/9582 with an American flag].</ref>

Today, the affinity of America for the Jews has given rise to the anti-Israel movement, which twins anti-Americanism with anti-Semitism, with both America and the Jews serving as symbols of capitalism. “The anti-American left... is at least as anti-Jewish as the clerical conservative right, especially among those who have embraced a pronounced 'antifascist' and 'antiracist' credo.” (Robert S. Wistrich, ''[http://www.ajc.org/atf/cf/%7B42D75369-D582-4380-8395-D25925B85EAF%7D/wistrich.pdf European Anti-Semitism Reinvents Itself],'' [The American Jewish Committee, 2002], p. 11) "Anti-Americanism in the Islamic world and Anti-Americanism in Europe are in fact linked, and both bear an uncanny resemblance to anti-Semitism." (Natan Sharansky, "[http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB122729626907148599 On Hating Jews: The inextricable link between anti-Semitism and anti-Americanism]," ''The Wall Street Journal'', November 17, 2003) "America and Jews are seen by many Europeans as paragons of a modernity they dislike and distrust: money-driven, profit-hungry, urban, universalistic, individualistic, mobile, rootless, inauthentic, and thus hostile to established traditions and values." ("[http://www.jcpa.org/JCPA/Templates/ShowPage.asp?DRIT=3&DBID=1&LNGID=1&TMID=111&FID=624&PID=0&IID=658&TTL=European_Anti-Americanism_and_Anti-Semitism:_Similarities_and_Differences European Anti-Americanism and Anti-Semitism: Similarities and Differences]," An Interview with Andrei S. Markovits, ''Post-Holocaust and Anti-Semitism'' [Institute for Global Jewish Affairs], No. 16 [January 1, 2004]) "Jews were blamed for the evils of capitalism in earlier centuries. Americans are blamed for globalization, that is, technological and economic change to the max, in our days." (Josef Joffe, quoted in Mark O'Keefe, "[http://pewforum.org/Politics-and-Elections/Anti-Semitism-and-Anti-Americanism.aspx Anti-Semitism and Anti-Americanism]," Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, May 5, 2006) "America today has become the world's market-dominant minority," while "Jews are a market-dominant mionority in the Middle East." (Amy Chua, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=KSp1okOggpkC World on fire: how exporting free market democracy breeds ethnic hatred and global instability]'' [Random House, Inc., 2004] ISBN 0385721862, pp. 218, 229) Thus post-unification Germany, observed a journalist in 2005, is marked by "a poisonous cocktail of the three big As: anti-Americanism, anti-Semitism and anti-capitalism." (Wolfgang Munchau, "[http://www.spectator.co.uk/essays/13684/part_2/antiamericanism-antisemitism-anticapitalism.thtml Anti-Americanism, anti-Semitism, anti-capitalism]," ''The Spectator'', May 21, 2005) This association of Jews with America was demonstrated in 2006, when German Neo-Nazis burned a copy of ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=y50yo2rnJHcC Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl]'' along [http://www.ejpress.org/article/news/germany/9582 with an American flag].</ref>

Marx ends with a call for "the ''emancipation of society from Judaism''":

Marx ends with a call for "the ''emancipation of society from Judaism''":