were the puritans racial jews?  they were extreeeeemely philosemitic, to the point of trying to reestablish the sanhedrin and make hebrew the official tongue. cotton mather referred to the american indians as amalekites and philistines, advocating for their extermination based on how the supposedly real ancient israelites exterminated the supposedly real amalekites and canaanites, and wrote about how the devil was trying to shear the colony's locks, despite locks not being a hairstyle among european non-jews at the time (indeed, if ever). heinrich heine, himself of jewish descent, referred to puritans as "jews who eat pork." the descendants of puritans seem to have latched onto whatever destructive movements arose throughout the times with fanatic zeal, be it abolitionism, support for income and property taxes, or the modern day "progressivism" running amok in the west. and what do you know, boston has been a major jewish hub for much of its history. and america's oldest synagogue (which also served as a slave auction house) is located in rhode island.
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