The Dreyfus Affair (1894-1906) 

I was very pleased Méliès got a nod. He is forgotten by many. Oh no you got COVID? Are you ok?

As of this morning, much better. I expect to be fine by Monday or so.

החלמה מהירה!

@@SamAronow ok, I hope you don't have any lasting effects, rest Sam. You did very well, especially if you were exhausted from COVID. But please rest now.

@@ZamirMalachi6354 You need to convert to Punctuation

@@ScipioVision Did we not watch the same fucking video? Go and find god, please

@@ScipioVision Propaganda is when jew good. Sure buddy

@@ScipioVision whether or not he's of the same race (however you define that), he still saw himself as french and was willing to die for france.

​@@ScipioVision I don't think Jew is a nationality, bud. You wouldn't say Christians can't be French so I'm wondering why you think Jewish people can't?

@@toade1583our identity is complicated. The best way of describing it in simpler terms is we’re an ethnoreligion. Within our culture there’s aspects of nationhood E.g. the concept of Am Israel. Spinoza a 17th century Jewish secular philosopher argued the Torah was merely the constitution/legal documents of a ancient kingdom, not divine word. In more religious terms there’s passages like in Genesis where G-d says to Abraham (paraphrasing here) “i will make you into a great nation” Amongst the first French Revolution and after it at Napoleon’s great Sanhedrin emancipation was granted to French Jews if the two communities of Bordeaux and Alsace (Sephardi secular and Ashkenazi religious) gave up ideas of Judaism having any national characteristics to accept French nationality. Similarly with the rise of the reform movement in its earlier years they to argued assimilation for Jews was only possible to shed any notions of Jews having any distinct national or ethnic identity. It’s a messy messy topic which Sam has covered but for the most part the Jews of revolutionary France took the offer to gain equality which makes the Dreyfus situation so tragic. After all the progress of the French Revolution and the country slips back into the antisemitism it held since medieval times all be it with modern touches when according to their own legal codes and rulings French Jews were sons of the nation

After all he epitomizes all the "qualities" of zealous antisemites: -Hate a people but barely try to learn about it. -Envy other successful people. -Judge the facts on a confirmation bias. -If the facts contradict you, forge them.

@@marcello7781 And they usually think they are geniuses.

@@marcello7781 TBF that's bigots in general. Bigotry only has one playbook: all they do is run a find-and-replace when they switch targets.

is it really because of drumont? i was under the impression that drumont was more symptomatic of older widespread european antisemitism rather than someone who created part of it but i wouldn't mind finding out otherwise

Such as ?

The Global Cycling Network has a video where two of their presenters try to get through a leg of the original Tour de France with period-appropriate gear. Anyone who does the Tour is obviously built different, but the guys back then were fucking BUILT DIFFERENT.

@@tjenadonn6158 Yep, there are a few books on both the first tour. And also crazier is the Circuit des Champs de Bataille, which happened right after Wold War I, "Riding the Zone Rouge" is a great book on that.

*I need to see this.*

So... the Tour-de-France was founded because of antisemitism? I wonder if there were any Jews out of the Sixty cyclists of the first race...

My middle name is Frances and I am a Jew so it’s me

Frances Joos sounds vaguely Dutch.

However, his granddaughter, Madeleine Levy, arrested by French police in Toulouse, was deported and died of typhus in Auschwitz in January 1944 and his wife, Lucie, who had played a major role in the fight to exonerate her husband, was hidden in a convent in Valence during the German occupation where her health so deteriorated that she died shortly after the the war, in December 1945. So sad.

If anything, US politics at this time was even weirder. Both parties had left and right wings but managed to stay united because the most important issue for 20 years was whether the value of money should be tied to gold or silver. We're gonna get into it later.

@@Noctem_pasa I mean, lets be fair for a moment here, no major party in the US is called "The Racist Party."

Although obviously that doesn't change the actual reality.

@@Noctem_pasa I would dislike your comment a thousand times if I could.

So, what you’re basically saying is what if we had a viable third party? That would be nice.

I mean, not that France has a shortage of rightwing nutjobs, and most monarchists are up there. But Action Française are nutjobs even by their standards.

More than a democratic thing, it depens of the education. If some random blonde guy said that and people belive him then there is a big problem with the way there were educated. Like, you can see that is bullshit just using your common sense.

@@DarthFhenix55 common sense is in short supply here in the United States.

@@WillyOrca So you are telling me that jewish people plot against common people or something like that?

@@WillyOrca you are right that comparatively to the population at large choose to have higher representation in certain fields but that same thing can be said especially in similar fields as a lot of Asian Americans as many Asian cultural groups here in the United States have also very circular community economies and highly value education and work ethic and how they raise their children it's very similar to Jewish communities. As far as you saying that the banks are run by Jews well lets examine that for what it is.... And looking into the CEO and boards of the top five banks in America such as Wells Fargo, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and so on one can actually find an interesting trend and that is there is not one Jew as a CEO although I did find that's some of them had Greek Irish German ancestry. On the boards of these companies I found only one or two out of a board of often 10 to 20 for each of the major companies, the majority mostly being from European white ancestry. Now I am 100% on your side when it comes to the fact that many of these organizations such as banks are highly exploitative of the population at large and I am against their Capitalist but that is a capitalist problem not a Jewish problem, in fact if you look at the top 10 richest men in America one of them is practicing Jewish and another one is only half Jewish through his mother and grew up Christian. Mark Zuckerberg is now number 11. And now let's look at Hollywood and I actually think your claim has a bit more validity as there is a large propensity of Jewish actors, talent agents, producers and directors but what's really break down the numbers shall we by looking at a few companies. In 2021 the largest entertainment company with the highest percentage of Jewish employees including management and executives was Disney at around 18%, Warner Brothers was around 13%, Sony 13% NBC 2%, and it's funny is that NBC considered to be left with and is often referenced as Jewish controlled being at only 2% comparative to the conservative Fox News which has 12% Jewish employment. So what are these numbers tell us yes there is a higher representation in the media comparative to the general population percentage but it is not an astronomical difference and certainly not dominated by the Jews who make up 2.4% general American population but notably in the area that most of the major financial institutions and media institutions are headquartered so New York and Los Angeles you see representation as high as 9%, and 17% respectively which actually means in Los Angeles comparative to the population that is Jewish they are actually proportionally represented to the larger population in mass media in that City. The real issue is that there are no group of Jews meeting at Canter's deli on Fairfax in Los Angeles plotting how to make Hollywood more Jewish and how to push Jewish ideology onto the world know the true fact is you have individuals who identify as Jewish who holds personal beliefs but over businessmen and capitalists trying to maximize profits to the largest possible market so there is no Jewish agenda at Play in that regard there's just the concept of making as much money as possible which is not a characteristic of Jewish people but a characteristic of businessmen of any background. The average Jewish household is not a rich household in comparison to the so-called elite and while it is higher than the average for other demographics of Americans you also have to look at why and that is largely because Jews like Us have created insular communities that rely on circular economics that helps to support every facet of that community which means that if I have a business and you have a business that are compatible we often would send business to each other and therefore both of us become more profit able and then we can profit on to the education of our children thereby increasing their chances to do the same and faster in that generation. All of this is also fairly new to the world stage jews have only had opportunities like this in recent years. Up until the 1970s most Jews in Hollywood changed their names to avoid persecution because they wouldn't get the job otherwise, all the way through the 1950s and '60 s Jewish and gentile banking, advertising, and investment firms we're off in separated between the Jewish firms and the normal firms that hired European decent white men. My grandfather started an overnight printing business one of the first in the country in the '60s and then he sold that business for around $4 million dollars around the late 60s and yet even though he met the qualifications in every way he was often rejected from wealthy society that he tried to become a part of like a country clubs because he was Jewish and my grandmother wanted to be an animator for Disney and had incredible sketches when she was applying for art School in fact they were all ready to let her in she had an amazing interview everything was going great and then they pointed out that she had multiple absences on her record and she had to explain them and when she said they were Jewish holidays they notably told her they would get back to her and never did. That is only two generations ago and even though they succeeded in so many ways my grandpa always told me to never wear my yamaka in public because he told me I look like a gentile and why would I want to be a Jew in this world. So is there a exploitation by the wealthy 100% we are living in an American today controlled by a few Rich families most of which are Christian and are of Anglo origin like Bill Gates, the Koch brothers which are German, The waltons, musk and Bezos none of which by the way are Jewish but all of which perpetuate horrible labor practices and consumer exploitation. So the next time you get mad at the wealthy realize it's not their religion that makes them evil because I don't blame Christians for capitalism no instead I blame human greed and that is a trait found in every person from every background and I think is equally represented across the world..... Anyways that's my TED talk good night.

@@WillyOrca also point of fact I sell insurance currently but I am also been a director with amnesty international for fundraising, I have been a waiter, I have been a Lyft driver, I have been a retail sales person and manager, I have waved signs and I have worked in construction. If I had worked in banking media law or psychiatry that would not invalidate my opinion nor would it make me incapable of advising with the exploited masses of the capitalist machine and it's kind of weird that you think of those professions prevent someone from being human and feeling for those suffering which is called empathy thing that I try to practice actively.

Same, found him round Yom kippur been watch since

@@ScipioVision never, and for someone trying to claim by proxy some sort of wisdom or grandiosity from someone like Aurelian, you should know that despite all your Roman emperors and the rulers across the ages afterwards despite all their efforts and despite all of their power we are still here.... So we will maintain our pride and not let someone as pathetic as you shake it because you are a ghost of a shadow of anything your name could possibly represent.

@@ScipioVision what a compelling argument. Yes random RU-vid commentor your masterful evangelizing method of calling me Jew and telling me accept Jesus worked! (No but seriously of you watched any of these videos you will see that we had enough of Christians trying to convert us)

@@ScipioVision dude watch any of the videos in this channel on this idiotic premise Jews were persecuted killed and banished it was and still is completely untrue

@@ScipioVision you need to repent and believe in the gospel. "salvation is from the jews" - Jesus Christ, our Lord and God, John 4:22

I loved your video on the Dorset culture.

@@t.wcharles2171 Me too.

This is a crossover we need.

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Defiantly be sure to also check out other sources on Zionism, like Henry Abramson and Jewish Virtual Library, in addition. Sam is a far-leftist in Israeli politics, and I worry that might influence his videos.

zionism sucks

Yeah right so cool

@@aidenklass9767 🙃

@@benjaminklass5118 aren't you meant to be teaching at the moment?

@@aidenklass9767 In was on break.

19th century military honor culture is wild. I think it arose out of a desire to imitate the Romans.

@@SamAronowThat is exactly what a lot of it really was, i.e., an attempt by French military officers to recreate the ancient Roman sense of patriotism, fidelity and honor. If you ever get the chance, just read some of the period’s French military literature and other written materials. I read a lot of it when studying at the US Naval Academy (c.1987-90) and often found myself laughing out loud at the constant attempts to paint 19th century French military men as modern day Roman legions (it’s not a coincidence that the French called their soon to be famous unit of foreign fighters “La Legion Etrangere”). This started with the Revolution in 1789 and David’s art, among others, is a great example how those ideals were rediscovered. By the middle of the 19th century these attitudes were not confined to Republicans. A significant number of French Army officers with royalist/Catholic tendencies adopted similar beliefs in those same civic virtues.

Well, in English "libel" is just what we call defamation in written form.

@@SamAronow Same as with French then. I was surprised you didn't think it could be a crime. Excellent video, by the way. As usual. I'm learning each time.

One thing that always bugs me is how contemporary anti-semites quote the blood libel when they are making a stink about the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church invented it after all.

The Semitic answer to the Satanic Panic. And now we get to live through their shitty sequels simultaneously.

You don’t know the half of it. In the 1980s they refused to allow his statue at the military academy. Or anywhere.

And his grand daughter died in the Holocaust.

A german who spoke german and was born in germany was accused of being a german spy and somehow its all about the jews.

What's an insurrection? The lies and forgeries that convicted Dreyfus lingered in power many decades but opinions slowly changed, and the truth ultimately prevailed. In my country, a staged "insurrection" was successfully perpetrated at the Capitol, only to result in the truth coming out later. It was a bogus insurrexction, carefully orchesatrated from behind the scenes by the speaker, her co-conspirators, and the police.

Although, it was never proved. But anyway, I don't understand how a blocked chimney can cause suffocation. There is a door he could open. Was that during his sleep?

@@user-gr9fq9gt9w he was not suffocated, he died of carbon monoxide poisoning.

@@WagesOfDestruction Oh, that makes much more sense.

Neither has the far-left, apparently.

@@jasonbelstone3427 Protest is now illegal and wrong, bow down before the gov but only if it’s an R in office

Trumpist political power is been basically neutered, if that's what you're implying. So has BLM political groups if you count them, but I'm not entirely sure.

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Oh my God, you're right. I'll be honest; I was seriously ill while for basically the entire production process (including now) and must have short-circuited while doing that.

Not to be confused by _The People's Court_ headed by Joseph Wapner.

@@SamAronow depends whether you watch reruns or not.

Oh no, I must have misread one of the stats. No wonder I couldn't find more of it.

I just watched that movie, expecting a big serious documentary, but then I realized that I am dumb and obviously that's a silent show film from the 19th...

I was able to find at least three feature films, assuming we define feature length as being anything over 90 minutes, that were released before the film I'm assuming you're referring to. Those being "The Defense of Sevastopol" released in 1912, "Quo Vadis?" released in 1913, and "Cabiria" released in 1914, all before "The Birth of A Nation" in 1915. Let's not give that shit any more credit than it's due. It was however the first movie ever screened in the White House, at the personal request of President Woodrow Wilson.

@@tjenadonn6158 Those were more than a decade and a half later, genius... when technology was much much better and efficient. Nice profile picture btw.

Uh...thank you?

@@SamAronow the Dreyfus Affair just fills me with rage at the injustice so I wanted to rage quit, but I didn't want negatively impact your stats with RU-vid. It's an excellent video, and my brain filled in more details from what I knew making me remember why so many people dislike France. I'm also doing a deep dive into the world wide impact of French colonialism (for fun I'm a nerd), so imagine that scene from Clue where Mrs. White says "flames on the side of my face...." yeah that...🙃😝 Anyway it's a well executed video. Thank you for making it.

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