Most non-Jews
are unfamiliar with Euro-Judaic culture, of which its literature is of primary importance. The stories, myths, rules
and regulations of the ancestors of European Jews have been carefully preserved for their progeny for hundreds of years, and
many of today's European Jews, especially among Orthodox Jews, live much like their ancestors lived.
A primary characteristic of European Judaism is "anti-Gentilism." While Christians have an understanding of the Torah and the rest
of the Hebrew Scriptures as instructing the Israelites to exterminate nation within the Land of Canaan who were found to immoral,
European Judaism that used the same Hebrew Scriptures, added their own and conconcted a religion that views non-Jews
as not deserving of the same right to be treated justly. One of the doctrines associated with Euro-Judaic anti-Gentilism is the
belief that Jews have the right to lie to non-Jews. According the to Talmud, Tractate Baba Kamma 113a, it says:
"Where a suit arises between an Israelite and a heathen, if you can justify the former according to the laws of Israel,
justify him and say: 'This is our law'; so also if you can justify him by the laws of the heathens justify him and
say [to the other party] 'This is your law'; but if this can not be done, we use subterfuges to circumvent him."
Another important
factors that points to Euro-Judaic anti-Gentilism is a culture that allows European Jews to live in non-Jews lands while not
having to obey the laws of that land. According to the Talmud, Tractate Abodah Zarah 26b, European Jews are forbidden
from reporting the unlawful acts of fellow Jews to non-Jewish authorities -- under threat of death. It says: "informers...may
be cast in, and need not be brought up."
Anti-Gentilism, while hundreds of years old, is still practiced as avidly by many modern-day members of the European Jewish
community as it was by their ancestors. According to the website entitled "Informing on Jews Who Inform", it says: "the Talmud recounts -- in quite a few places -- that
is prohibited to inform on Jews to the secular authorities, even when they conduct is a violation of secular law and even
when their conduct is violation is Jewish law."
