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ANTI-SEMITISM IN MODERN WORLD AND MOSLEM EXPANSION |
Report: Anti-Semitic attacks up 50% -> by jpost.com,
Apr. 15, 2007
The year 2006 witnessed a
significant escalation in physical, verbal, and visual
anti-Semitism throughout the world, with as many as 590
cases of violence and vandalism reported against Jews, a
study published by Tel Aviv University ahead of Holocaust
Remembrance Day revealed Sunday.
Anti-Semitism in Islam: Israel Didn’t Start the
Fire -> By Timothy R. Furnish ,
02/05/2007
"Conventional wisdom among many American
citizens, as well as numerous journalists,
politicians and media anchors, has it that
anti-Semitism1 in the Islamic world constitutes
a not unreasonable reaction to the late 19th c.
Zionist movement which led to the creation of
the state of Israel right after World War II. In
this view, were Israel to totally withdraw from
the West Bank (and other disputed Arab
territories), as well as enact the “right of
return” and/or compensate displaced
Palestinians, anti-Semitism in the Islamic world
would dissipate like a mirage..."
"Journalist David Byers, visiting the Berlin
locales of his family before the Nazi Holocaust,
recently wrote a
piece in which he comes up against his own
incomprehension of the causes of anti-Semitism.
Surveying the robotic habits of Germans in the
streets leads him to wonder if mechanical conformity
is a German national trait that permits the
emergence of extremism. His answer:
This would be the convenient and intellectually
lazy conclusion to draw, but I have my doubts.
Support for the far right is highest in areas of
enormous deprivation. In 1990 Germany did, after
all, take the unprecedented step of absorbing a
second- or even third-world country when the
Berlin Wall came down. Large parts of the east
are truly in a desperate state, with some having
a population comprised of 80 percent men, I am
told, who are mostly unemployed. Surely that,
rather than a mechanical trip-switch of hate,
better explains the rise of extremism?
Byers is right to reject the idea that the
Holocaust could not have occurred in other
societies, yet his economic explanation for the
appearance of Nazism and now neo-Nazism in Germany
is no less deficient for being common..."
Weakness fosters anti-Semitism -> by Isi Leibler, THE
JERUSALEM POST Oct. 31, 2006
"One would have hoped that by the 21st century it would be
history, but anti-Semitism today has achieved what British Chief
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks has described as "global tsunami"
proportions. Clearly we are destined to remain "the people that
dwelleth alone."
Boosted by the sponsorship of Islamic governments, the world's
oldest hatred continues to proliferate and is now once more
embedded into the European mindset...."
Babi Yar: "From September to May, There Were Shots Almost Every
Day" -> Amiram Barkat
Some 160,000 Jews lived in Kiev, Ukraine, on the eve of the
German invasion of the Soviet Union. Ten days after the
invasion, on September 28, 1941 - Yom Kippur eve - posters were
put up instructing all Jews to report to the cemetery and bring
clothes, money, and personal documents. People thought that they
were going on a long journey. The Jews were divided into groups
of men, women, and children. They were forced to undress, then
shot at the edge of a forested ravine. More than 33,170 people
were murdered in two days. In the following months, thousands of
additional Jews were also murdered. All told, about 100,000
people were murdered at Babi Yar, including gypsies, Soviet war
prisoners, communists, and Ukrainians.
Yelena Korovchevskaya, who was 15 then and lived about a
kilometer from Babi Yar, said, "From September to May, there
were shots almost every day. The neighbors told us they were
shooting Jews." Leonid Bernstein, 86, who lost his father and
his uncle in Babi Yar, adds, "No one notes that out of 1,000
murderers, only 150 were German, and all the rest were
Ukrainians." (Ha'aretz)
How Europe Unwittingly Fuels Bloodshed in Israel
-> by Daniel Hannan
Palestinians are already, by some measure, the largest per
capita recipients of overseas aid in the world. Yet the level of
violence in Gaza and the West Bank has risen in proportion to
the amount of assistance received. When Hamas was elected
earlier this year, the EU brushed aside American objections and
handed over 120 million euros. Palestinians responded by
ransacking EU diplomatic missions and kidnapping European
citizens. The EU, as the largest overseas donor to the PA, has
created a subsidy-based society, as sulky, lethargic and corrupt
as any on earth. But it doesn't have to be this way. The EU, in
its well-intentioned but doltish way, is fueling the conflict.
The Jewish state represents the supreme vindication of the
national principle: that is, the desire of every people to have
their own country. The EU, by contrast, is founded in the belief
that national loyalties are artificial, transient, and
ultimately discreditable. Simply by existing, Israel challenges
the main assumption on which European integration is based. (Telegraph-UK)
Why Anti-Zionism Is Anti-Semitism -> by Dennis Prager
Imagine someone saying that he seeks the destruction of Italy
because he regards Italian national identity as racist. Further,
imagine that this person constantly denies being anti-Italian,
because he does not hate all Italians, only Italy and all those
who believe Italy should exist. Now substitute "Jewish" for
"Italian" and "Israel" for "Italy" and you understand the
absurdity of the argument that one can be anti-Zionist but not
anti-Jewish.
The belief that Jews belong in Zion (the biblical term for
Jerusalem) is as old as the Jewish people. Starting in 586 BCE,
with the destruction of the first Jewish state, Jews were
already Zionists in that they fervently prayed to return to
Zion. While the movement known by the specific name "Zionism" is
modern, the movement of Jews returning to Zion is more than
2,500 years old. (Townhall.com)
J'Accuse - Tom Gross (Wall Street
Journal, 2June05)
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A French court last week found three writers
for Le Monde, as well as the newspaper's publisher,
guilty of "racist defamation" against Israel and the Jewish
people. In a groundbreaking decision, the Versailles court
of appeal ruled that a comment piece published in Le
Monde in 2002, "Israel-Palestine: The Cancer," had
whipped up anti-Semitic opinion. The writers were ordered to
pay symbolic damages of one euro to a human-rights group and
to the Franco-Israeli association. Le Monde was also
ordered to publish a condemnation of the article, which it
has yet to do.
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Responsible journalists strenuously avoid
libelous characterizations of entire ethnic, national, or
religious groups. They go out of their way, for example, to
avoid suggesting that the massacres in Darfur, which are
being carried out by Arab militias, in any way represent an
Arab trait.
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The exception to this seems to be the
coverage of Jews, particularly Israeli ones. From Oslo to
Athens, from London to Madrid, it has been virtually open
season on them in the last few years, especially in
supposedly liberal media.
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In the British media, the Guardian
equated Israel and al Qaeda; the Evening Standard
equated Israel and the Taliban. The Independent's
Middle East correspondent, Robert Fisk, implies that the
White House has fallen into the hands of the Jews: "The
Perles and the Wolfowitzes and the Cohens...very sinister
people hovering around Bush." Bashing Israel even extends to
local papers that don't usually cover foreign affairs, such
as the double-page spread titled "Jews in Jackboots" in
Luton on Sunday (Luton is an industrial town in southern
England).
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Although the French court ruling - the first
of its kind in Europe - is a major landmark, no one in
France seems to care. One would have thought such a verdict
would prompt wide-ranging coverage and lead to extensive
soul-searching and public debate. Instead, there has been
almost complete silence, and virtually no coverage in the
French press.
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And few elsewhere will have heard about it.
Reuters and Agence France Presse (agencies that have
demonstrated particularly marked bias against Israel) ran
short stories about the judgment in their French-language
wires last week, but chose not to run them on their English
news services. The Associated Press didn't run it at all.
Instead of triggering the long overdue reassessment of
Europe's attitude toward Israel, the media have chosen to
ignore it.
"Anti-Semitism may seem to be a static,
unchanging phenomenon but in fact the obsessive hatred of Jews
has a history that goes back millennia and continues to evolve.
Developments since World War II and the
Holocaust have been especially fast-paced and portentous..."
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by Daniel Pipes, New York Sun, February 15, 2005
Post-Holocaust and Anti-Semitism
Anti-Zionism in Belgium - The Country's Civil Religion that
Reflects the New Anti-Semitism - An Interview with Joël Kotek
No. 29 1 February 2005 / 22 Shevat 5765
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Anti-Zionism has become a civil religion in Belgium. Its
credo is that the Palestinians are always right and the
Israelis are always wrong.
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Classic
anti-Semitism in Belgium is manifest, but probably in
decline. Yet an unprecedented outburst of anti-Semitic
acts is taking place due to violence by youngsters
mostly of North African origin.
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The Jews have become an instrument in Belgian politics.
Opposing Israel serves many segments of Belgian society.
Hatred of Israel is used both as a tool for electoral
reasons and to enable Belgium to act on the
international scene.
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Mainstream Belgian Jews are more and more isolated and
not understood by society. Many Jews think about leaving
Belgium. Very few will do so because it is difficult for
them.
Anti-Semitism in Canada
"Canada is characterized by a set of fundamental values that
help create a multicultural democracy and that are intended,
among other goals, to protect vulnerable minorities. However,
these values have not immunized Canada from anti-Semitism. While
little if any pattern emerges, at least in certain quarters it
may have become almost systemic. So far anti-Semitism has not
succeeded in Canada to move from the periphery to the center." (Jewish
Political Studies Review) by -> Manuel Prutschi
Jewish advocates of the new anti-Semitism
"The commemorations of the Holocaust this week by world leaders
left many of their Jewish observors in a state of cognitive
dissonance. German Foreign Minister Joscha Fischer provided a
notworthy contribution to this confusion last Monday at the UN
General Assembly's special session marking the sixtieth
anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz death camp when he
said that Israel could "always rely" on German support "because
the security of its citizens will forever remain a
non-negotiable fixture of German foreign policy."
The problem with Fischer's statement is that it seems to bear no
relations to the sentiments of the overwhelming majority of his
countrymen. In a poll released in the days ahead of this week's
Holocaust commemorations by the German University of Bielfeld,
62 percent of Germans said they were "sick of all the harping on
about German crimes against the Jews." More than two thirds of
Germans said they believe Israel is waging "a war of
extermination" against the Palestinians.
Jewish organizations often focus their attention on Holocaust
sentiment among non-Jews to gauge anti-Semitic feelings..." ->
by Caroline B. Glick, January 29, 2005
Catholic Church Equates Anti-Zionism with
Anti-Semitism
"The Catholic Church condemned anti-Zionism as a
cover for anti-Semitism in a joint statement
issued by a forum of Catholic-Jewish
intellectuals this week in Buenos Aires. "We
oppose anti-Semitism in any way and form,
including anti-Zionism that has become of late a
manifestation of anti-Semitism," the statement
said. Ilan Steinberg, director of the World
Jewish Congress, noted, "For the first time, the
Catholic Church recognizes in anti-Zionism an
attack not only against Jews, but against the
whole Jewish people." - By Shlomo Shamir of
Ha'aretz, July 9, 2004
Report on Global Anti-Semitism
July 1, 2003 – December 15, 2004, submitted by the Department of
State to the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Committee on
International Relations in accordance with Section 4 of PL
108-332, December 30, 2004
Released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor
January 5, 2005
REPORT: Managing European Taxpayers’ Money:
Supporting the Palestinian Arabs – A Study in
Transparency
"All of the funds which foreign countries had
donated to the Palestinian Authority, a total of
$5bn "have gone down the drain, and we don't
know to where." - Mohammad Dahlan, Former
Palestinian Authority Interior Minister, ‘The
Guardian’, Monday August 2, 2004
Managing European Taxpayers' Money: Supporting
The Palestinian Arabs - A Study In Transparency
"Since 1993, the countries of the European Union
have contributed, individually and collectively,
over four billion euros to the Palestinian
Authority - and a new report shows that much of
this sum has gone towards corruption, incitement
and violence. Another 250 million euros were
budgeted for the year 2004.
The new report,
released by the Funding for
Peace Coalition (FPC), substantiates a
compelling connection between European funding
and ongoing Palestinian corruption and
terrorism. Entitled "Managing European
Taxpayers' Money: Supporting The Palestinian
Arabs - A Study In Transparency," it also
highlights the failure of European organizations
to monitor how these funds are used.... " -
reported by Aruz Sheva, September 3, 2004
How Europe Became Eurabia
"Last Tuesday, the 25 nations of the European
Union (EU) voted unanimously to support a United
Nations Resolution condemning Israel’s defensive
fence (ignoring that this barrier was
constructed to keep jihadist murderers from
entering the nation via Judea and Samaria). The
EU’s craven, morally bankrupt stance was sadly
consistent with Eurabian policies evident now
for three decades. In fact, the EU has been
completing a slow metamorphasis into the
"Christian" arm of the Pan-Arab world, different
in religious observation (or lack of same) but
united in its views of Israel and America." -By
Bat Ye’or of FrontPageMagazine.com | July 27,
2004
French
Anti-Semitism: A Barometer for Gauging Society's Perverseness
"The Jews' situation in France is indicative of the condition of
French society. Substantial anti-Semitic violence in recent
years underscores several of the country's major problems.
Under the Jospin socialist-led government (in power until 2002),
the Jews became the country's scapegoat and safety barrier,
being on the receiving end of the main attacks - which targeted
French society at large
The French government affirms its determination to combat
anti-Semitism while at the same time continuing to feed the
anti-Semitic discourse at its origins.
The ongoing anti-Jewish aggression has created a trend toward
mental and behavioral ghettoization of the French Jewish
community. Many Jews now feel secure only in a Jewish
environment. One result of this is an increased enrollment in
Jewish day schools.
In a 2003 poll, almost 20% of French Jews said that they intend
to leave France..." - an interview with Shmuel Trigano, No. 26
1 November 2004 / 17 Chesvan 5765
"The history of
... September 30th, 1942. There were several other camps
like Drancy in France: Noe, Gurs, Recebedou ..."
"A
gallery of Holocaust photographs depicting the camp at Drancy,
France, including
the deportation memorial and a boxcar used to send deportees to
Nazi ..."
"...
people is totally focused on the compensation for the ... The
organized Jewish community strongly supports Israel ... the
capacity of the Jews of France to demonstrate"
SPANISH ANTI-SEMITISM IS ALIVE IN THE LEFT
"Spain has never fulfilled its
responsibility with regards to anti-Semitism
- neither in the past, nor in the present .
As a result, the powerful accusation by Pat
Cox, president of the European Parliament,
made in the March 2004 report, is hardly
surprising: Spain is considered, today, the
main source of incitation against Jews in
Europe. The report of the European
Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia,
speaking about media coverage of the Middle
East conflict, states: "since the
stereotypes found in that coverage are the
same waived against the Jews during the
1930s (killing children, controlling the
world, related to money, dark intentions…),
it is impossible to affirm that the
anti-Israeli wave that crosses Spain is
independent of an anti-Semitic content in
the news"..." by Pilar Rahola
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Diario El Mundo. Madrid
ANTI-SEMITISM IN GREECE: EMBEDDED IN SOCIETY
"Anti-Semitism in Greece occurs not only
among extreme rightists and leftists. It is
embedded in Greek mainstream society and
manifests itself in religious contexts,
education, politics and the media. Jews are
often not perceived as true Greeks, although
many families have lived there since the
15th century.
A Eurobarometer survey in the year 2000
showed Greece to have the highest degree of
xenophobia in the European Union.
Greek mainstream media regularly uses the
terms "genocide," "Holocaust" and the names
of concentration camps drawing a parallel
between Nazi Germany and Israel today. In
this, Greece is more similar to Syria and
Iran than to the Western world.
As the Greek Jewish community is small and
not very vocal, the international
condemnations of Greek anti-Semitism by the
Simon Wiesenthal Center, Anti-Defamation
League and others are especially
important... " An Interview with Moses
Altsech
ANTI-SEMITISM AND HYPOCRISY IN DUTCH SOCIETY
"Verbal and violent anti-Semitism in the
Netherlands is probably greater today than
it has been during any other time in the
last two centuries except the Nazi
occupation.
Excessive Dutch tolerance has become an
incentive for crime. Developments in
anti-Semitism and anti-Israelism are a good
indicator of what is happening in Dutch
society at large.
Due to the relatively high crime rate among
the Dutch Moroccan community and
international Arab anti-Semitic hate
propaganda, Jews are above average targets
for their racists' behavior. Easily
recognizable Jews often try to hide their
identity in public.
There are other reasons why the
international image of the Dutch attitude
toward the Jews should be corrected. The
Dutch government has still not publicly
acknowledged the major assistance of the
Dutch bureaucracy in the preparatory stages
of the murder of Dutch Jews by the Germans
during the Holocaust. It also continues to
misrepresent the post-war discrimination
against the Jews in the Netherlands..." by
Manfred Gerstenfeld
Post Holocaust and Anti-Semitism, No. 22,
July 1, 2004
ANTHOLOGY
OF MODERN ANTI-SEMITISM
"...AMERICANS, WHO HAVE COME to take for
granted the scurrilous anti-Semitism that
routinely appears in the Arab press, might be
amazed by what now appears in the sophisticated
European press. In England, the Guardian wrote
that "Israel has no right to exist." The
Observer described Israeli settlements in the
West Bank as "an affront to civilization." The
New Statesman ran a story titled "A Kosher
Conspiracy," illustrated by a cover showing the
gold Star of David piercing the Union Jack. The
story implies that a Zionist-Jewish cabal is
attempting to sway the British press to the
cause of Israel. In France, the weekly Le Nouvel
Observateur published an extraordinary libel
alleging that Israeli soldiers raped Palestinian
women so that their relatives would kill them to
preserve family honor. In Italy, the Vatican's
L'Osservatore Romano spoke of Israel's
"aggression that's turning into extermination,"
while the daily La Stampa ran a Page 1 cartoon
of a tank emblazoned with the Jewish star
pointing its big gun at the infant Jesus, who
cries out, "Surely they don't want to kill me
again." ..." by Mortimer Zuckerman, October 29,
2003, JWR
PROTEST OVER THE SUPPRESSION OF
THE EUROPEAN UNION MONITORING CENTER OF RACISM
AND XENOPHOBIA (EUMC) REPORT.
"I write on
behalf of Canadian Jewish Congress (CJC) to
protest strongly the suppression by the Board of
the European Union Monitoring Center on Racism
and Xenophobia (EUMC) of its own report on the
alarming rise of antisemitism in Europe. The
Center commissioned the study to analyze the
sources of resurgent antisemitism in Member
States and now appears unwilling to hold
publicly accountable those responsible for the
violence and hate directed at European Jews
across the continent at levels not seen since
1945..."
Manifestations of anti-Semitism in the European Union
First Semester 2002
Download full
Synthesis Report (800K PDF)
Draft 20 February 2003
Summary
Table (click to see)
Additional resources on anti-semitism:
P&A 16: European
Anti-Americanism and Anti-Semitism: Similarities and Differences,
Andrei S. Markovits
P&A 19: Anti-Semitism:
Integral to European Culture, Manfred Gerstenfeld
Anti-Semitic Trends In
Post-Communist Eastern European States - An Overview, Yosef Govrin
Europe's Moral
Attitudes toward the Holocaust in Light of the Current Defamation of
Israel, Manfred Gerstenfeld
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