Monica Lewelmo 

Mr. Elmo goes to Washington

Elmo goes to Hollyelmo 

Bedtime for Elmo

YMCElmo

George Willelmo

Dear Elmo

Pliny the Elmo

Ask Elmo

Barak Obelmo

George Elmoshington

I am Elmo the VIII I am (Elmo)

Marsha! Marsha! Marsha! 

John Malcavelmo

Teddy Ruxelmo

Tickle Me Elmo

Stand and deliver Elmo

Shih-tzelmo

The wheel goes round and round it makes an ancient rumbling sound

Historically, Jews formed highly-educated but ghettoised communities as a minority across a range of host states.

Frequently ‘forced into’ rather than ‘formed’.

For complicated religious, social and historical reasons, in the middle ages to early renaissance a significant fraction of Europe’s traders and bankers were Jewish.

The reasons aren’t that complex.  Non-Christians were forbidden to join existing guilds, so they created the finance industry in order to have some way of putting food on the table.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sez4KB0ec20

Or maybe it’s just Glenn Beck?

Don’t bother warning the disbelievers. Allah has made it impossible for them to believe so that he can torture them forever after they die. Quran 2:6-7 Sounds like a real outreach group huh? Just like the Cordoba mosque at Ground Zero. An outreach. Named after the mosque built in Cordoba Spain on top of the corpses of the Spanish Christians slaughtered there. Where’s the hate? Not from this side of the argument. All modern Jews are descendants of apes.Quran 2:65-66 Who’s pretneding lil boy? Who?

How would a company respond to this, I wonder.  Especially when it may be the only picture available of the person or incident ..

never given me anywhere near as much trouble as the local Christians

What about the international Christians?

“Gimel, bet, aleph: International Jews are go!”

Get him some therapy. Right now he’s a big public nuisance at best. I don’t wanna see what he could be at worst.

1) Historically, Jews formed highly-educated but ghettoised communities as a minority across a range of host states.  This made them very convenient targets of racism.  The cultures in question were usually racially prejudiced against a whole bunch of other people too… but the others weren’t as convenient to attack.

2) As always, follow the money.  For complicated religious, social and historical reasons, in the middle ages to early renaissance a significant fraction of Europe’s traders and bankers were Jewish.  This combined resentment with a significant profit motive for harassment.  (For example, the Inquisition was frequently funded with the profits from stealing the property of its victims.)  Several medieval expulsions of Jews boil down to ‘rich nobles owed them money and didn’t want to pay up’.

3) While we’re on the subject of the Inquisition… medieval churches, especially in Catholicism, had a habit of painting Jews as ‘the killers of Christ’ for evangelical and propaganda purposes.  This was closely tied in to (2); the church usually hated non-church trade and power groups.

4) A combination of British stupidity in the middle east, careless missteps by Israel and imported Nazi antisemitism turned centuries of peaceful Jewish/Muslim coexistence into a bloody mess in the space of years.