Anti-semite or not

[Monty]

All,

Why is the Goulston Street writing deemed anti semitic?

Its quite versitile in its interpretation.

Monty

[Sam Flynn]

Hi MrP,

Since not one of his victims was Jewish, and only one was murdered in a particularly Jewish residential area (she didn't even live there), the Ripper must have been the most subtle anti-Semite ever to have drawn breath. To run the clock forward to the late 20th Century, he operated as it were an IRA member deliberately targeting Catholics to make his point. Seen in light of this parallel, the notion that the Ripper's crimes were motivated by his (theoretical) antisemitism seems completely absurd.

[kensei]

I suppose it depends on one's interpretation of the Goulston Street graffito (if indeed it was written by the Ripper, which I believe it was). It was worded so peculiarly that it's impossible to tell exactly what it meant. If it was worded properly it could be suggesting that the "Juwes" are guilty of something, but if it was actually gramatically incorrect it could be looked at as a Jew denying guilt, as when someone says "I didn't do nothing!" But might I suggest that if he had a hatred for Jews then at least some of his victims should have been Jewish? What the Ripper definitely had a hatred of was women, or at least fallen ones.

[Mr Poster]

There ye go.

Was JtR anti-semitic and was there an anti-Jew slant in his killings.

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