Anti-Semite

[Thinktank]

The land needs to be returned to Palestine.

Israel should probably stop slaughtering 3,000 Pals every seven years for starters.

[logicalview]

Israel should probably stop slaughtering 3,000 Pals every seven years for starters.

Hamas should stop firing rockets into Israel every seven years for starters. The Muslim Brotherhood and Iran should stop supplying those rockets, for starters. Hamas should not be working 200 innocent children to death building terror tunnels for starters.

[unclemarty]

As I see it: The threat to the Jews of Europe

In California, where I was earlier this week, Jews and non-Jews are asking the same questions. Is Europe finished? Is it time for the Jews of Europe to move to Israel? And then finally: Are we in America also vulnerable to this earthquake? The French atrocities last month and last weekend’s attacks in Copenhagen, in which Jewish targets were singled out for murder along with cartoonists and their supporters upholding the right to give offence to Islam, have forced into public attention the murderous hatred of the Jews in the Islamic world.

Europe has been discovering to its horror that once again Jews are being made victims in its midst – and once again it is powerless to protect them. Jews are leaving France in great number because the risk of violence to them there has become acute. In Britain many Jews don’t see a problem at all, especially if they live inside a Jewish community bubble and don’t care much about Israel. But although the comparisons with 1933 are overblown and inappropriate, others in the UK community are increasingly asking if there is a future any more for Jews in Britain.

Figures produced by the UK Community Security Trust have shown that anti-Jewish incidents in Britain last year reached record levels, more than doubling over the previous year. Jews were abused in the street at a rate of more than one a day, particularly if they were wearing religious clothes or a Jewish school uniform.

In Birmingham four Asian men tried to storm a former synagogue shouting: “Kill the infidels, you are Satan-worshipers, are there any effing Jews in there.” On the same day a rabbi driving through London reportedly had “Slaughter the Jews” shouted at him in Arabic by a man running his finger across his throat in a cutting action.

A recent report by the Parliamentary Committee on Antisemitism noted “a palpable concern, insecurity, loneliness and fear following the summer’s rise in incidents and subsequent world events.”

The British government is undoubtedly concerned. The home secretary, Theresa May, said she never thought she’d see the day when British Jews thought they didn’t have a future in this country. The local government minister, Eric Pickles, has warned that a “creeping cultural acceptance” of anti-Semitism is taking over in Britain.

Yet such recognition is distinctly belated. Remarks about Jews controlling the media or US foreign policy, which would never have been tolerated when I was growing up in London, have become commonplace amongst mainstream politicians and commentators.

The fact that every single UK Jewish communal event has to be guarded is accepted as a fact of life. The fact that there are Jewish schools that look like fortresses and Jewish schoolchildren being taught self-defense to protect themselves against street attack is considered normal.

For the first time I can remember, concern is being publicly expressed about anti-Jewish feeling. Yet until very recently, anti-Semitism was the prejudice that dare not speak its name.

Attempts to point out that the anti-Israel lunacy dominating public discussion reflected the unique and deranged properties of anti-Jewish attitudes going back centuries generally provoked claims of “waving the shroud of the Holocaust” to sanitize Israel’s crimes.

Yet this anti-Israel obsession displays the same unique properties as Jew-hatred: obsessive falsehoods, holding Israel responsible for all the ills of the world, accusing it falsely of perpetrating crimes such as genocide or the deliberate targeting of innocents of which it is itself the victim. It has also fueled attacks on Jews, massively stoking the hysteria in a Muslim world preconditioned to believe Jews are out to destroy it.

Attacks on Jews always spike after any Israeli military action. This leads the Israel-bashers to blame Israel for provoking such attacks. The real cause of the recent rise, however, is the inflammatory way Israel’s actions last summer were reported which libelously painted the IDF as inhuman child-killers.

Not surprisingly this enraged many, particularly Muslims already conditioned by Islamic Judeophobia. As a result of this and the impunity afforded to the Israel-bashers, Jews have increasingly been targeted ever more brazenly as Jews without the fig leaf of anti-Zionism.

Thus the Tricycle Theatre tried to ban the Jewish Film Festival from its premises on the basis that it received a small donation from the Israeli Embassy (a ban later rescinded after protests), and Gaza demonstrators trashed kosher food in dozens of grocery stores.

After the Paris attacks, political leaders promised to stand against terrorism and to protect Europe’s Jews. But this was a hollow promise. These leaders repeatedly deny that Islamic terrorism has anything to do with Islam. They thus ignore the theological driver of the Jew-hatred that courses through the Islamic world, deeming any such talk instead to be “Islamophobic.”

If political leaders can’t even acknowledge who is attacking Jews and why, their commitment to protect them is merely political posturing. Those who deny the obvious linkage between anti-Israel lunacy and Jew-hatred now stand amazed at the murder of European Jews, while Jews in Britain and elsewhere in Europe wonder which of them will be next.

The Left refuses to acknowledge that Islamists are murdering Jews for no other reason than they exist, because to do so would undermine the Left’s contention that all such violence is only in response to Israel’s actions.

So to neutralize the impact of the murder of European Jews and the threat to countless others, they draw an obscene moral equivalence between Jew-hatred and Islamophobia, thus obscuring altogether the fact that these attacks on Jews are being perpetrated by Muslims.

More generally, even among those who are genuinely shocked by the attacks on European Jews there is a failure to understand their significance. For Jew-hatred is not a prejudice like any other. Not only does it possess unique properties but it lies at the heart of a society’s death wish.

Jews are the conscience of the world. Those who want to destroy the Jews want to tear out their own heart. And Judaism’s moral codes lie at the very core of Western civilization.

Europe, however, seems increasingly uncertain about whether it wants to defend that civilization. America, for so many years the site of culture wars over Western core values, is also seeing these slowly erode, although unlike Europe the US remains protected through the strength of its Christian heartlands.

So is Europe finished? Well, that depends on whether or not it will summon the will to identify, reaffirm and fight to defend the core values it has spent years undermining.

The Jews gave it those values. If it fails to protect its Jews, that will not be just another moral stain on Europe. It will have also failed to protect itself.

Melanie Phillips is a columnist for The Times (UK).

[unclemarty]

... We made a mistake...

Yes you did...you dragged your feet for 30 long years following the end of the Ottoman Empire to re-establish the one and only Jewish State at the one and only possible place on the globe.

[Thinktank]

In Birmingham four Asian men tried to storm a former synagogue .... On the same day a rabbi driving through London reportedly had “Slaughter the Jews” shouted at him....

Hey Marty,

What you think? You think it's as high as 10,000 Ukrainians slaughtered so far?
When Jews are asking the question - "Is Europe finished?" - does that include Ukraine?

[unclemarty]

Depends who you ask - The World Jewish Congress estimates that there are more than 250,000 Jews in Ukraine as a whole, the third-largest population of Jews among European nations. (most of them not Billionaires).

Chief Rabbi of Dnipropetrovsk, Shmuel Kaminezki, said most Jews were far more worried about the Russian troops massed on Ukraine’s border than about the risk of violence by anti-Semitic extremists. “Nobody is afraid of fascists, but everyone is afraid of war with Russia,” he said, noting that there has been an upsurge of interest among local Jews in moving to Israel because of worry about an armed conflict.

"Anti-Semitism is experienced in daily life but gets no support or encouragement from the state, unlike in Russia, where the security services have tolerated and at times nurtured neo-Nazi nationalist groups with openly anti-Semitic agendas. Russia’s state-run news media regularly air the views of Aleksandr A. Prokhanov, the editor of the Zaftra newspaper, a notorious platform for anti-Semitic conspiracy theories." - Ihor Kolomoysky (a Billionaire)

Then there's these: http://www.jta.org/tags/anti-semitism-in-ukraine/page/3

There are apparently many political groups of different stripes currently jockeying for position in that country - Time will tell.

[Thinktank]

On the same day a rabbi driving through London reportedly had “Slaughter the Jews” shouted at him....

So don't you think it's absurd to complain about getting shouted at when thousands and thousands
of people are getting slaughtered - and really not much is said about it in our media. CBC talks about Debaltseve,
and Donetsk, and Peace Talks, and Putin, and rebels, and they show us pictures of tanks driving
in unpopulated areas a lot - but no one in Canada hears much about the actual slaughter that's happening.

think no one in N America heard much about the 6,000,000 Ukrainians starved to death either.

[unclemarty]

So don't you think it's absurd to complain about getting shouted at when thousands and thousands
of people are getting slaughtered...

I guess that would depend on the overall context of the thread topic being discussed at the time.

[unclemarty]

"There is a certain people dispersed and scattered among the peoples...whose customs are different from those of all other people and who do not obey our laws; it is not in our best interest to tolerate them."
Haman (357 BC) ...and someone from almost every land, culture and generation since.

[The Green Barbarian]

[Thinktank]

Hey Marty - I call *bleep*.

Here's what Marty's video guy says:
It's not only the president of Iran who has it in for the Jews. Antisemitism is all over the world and all over the internet.

Then the guy goes on to quote three or four antisemitic websites - like 'Jewatch.com.'
Just because there are antisemitic websites on the internet does not mean antisemitism is all over the world.
There is 100 times more anti Islam in Canada than there is antisemitism. And that's why I call '*bleep*' on that video.

Then Marty's video guys says:
anitsemitism is rampant on university campuses.
antisemitism is rampant in the world press.

^ And that's when I stopped watching the video. I don't appreciate being lied to.
I wasn't to thrilled with that video to start with, but when he starts blatantly lying - time to shut it off.

There is a lot of antisemitism on the internet - on forums that discuss politics.
But there is no antisemitism anywhere else. None. So I'm not sure why Marty is getting excited.



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[Glacier]

Big difference between being anti-Islam and anti-Semitic, big shooter. Being anti-Islam is like being anti-Nazism, anti-Communism, or anti Capitalism. Being anti-Semitic is like being anti-Muslims, anti-women, or anti-aunties. Notice the difference?

[Thinktank]

There is no antisemitism anywhere.

I don't think there's even any Jews living in the Okanagan.
I see a few Jews on Oak Street in Vancouver when I'm there sometimes, but I can
guarantee no one hates those religious Jews.

But lots of people are starting to hate Zionism. We're hating the slaughter of Palestinians.
we're hating the Iraq wars, and we're hating when Booboo Netanyahu says Iran is making a nuclear bomb.
People are starting to hate the slaughter in Gaza as much as they hate any slaughter anwyhere.
It has nothing to do with hating those Jews with the long beards and black hats. In fact, I don't think
I've seen a real Jew more than once or twice in my entire life. And I've never spoken to a real Jew.

[Thinktank]

Notice the difference?

Yeah. Marty's video guy is full of crap.

[GordonH]

^^^ In Canada everyone has his/her right to their opinion, which is imho a good thing to have.