As a result of loot and plunder of Jewish Banks and Financial Institution in
the US and Europe, causing great hardship to the masses, hate crimes against
Jews and Israelis are growing by the day. But instead of realizing their own
mistakes, the Jewish writers blame it to antisemitism wave in the world:
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The result of the Jewish Agency's report released on Sunday showing global
anti-Semitism spiraling out of control recalls the memorable line in the film
Casablanca, in which police Captain Renault announces that Rick's Cafe must be
closed because of illegal activity. "I'm shocked, shocked to discover that
gambling is going on here!" saysRenault while being handed the proceeds of his
gambling wins.
Anti-Semitic graffiti at a London synagogue.
Photo: Graffiti at London synagogue
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While some observers of Jew-hatred in Western Europe are not shocked by the
largest wave of anti-Semitism since the Hitler movement, many European
governments, policy makers, and academics, however, tend to feign shock like
Renault or simply cannot fathom that hatred of Israel is the most ubiquitous
form of contemporary anti-Semitism.
As documented by the Jewish Agencyreport and the 2009 German
UniversityBielefeld study, there is no shortage of hostile anti-Israeli acts
and attitudes within such European countries as Sweden, Germany, Norway, the
United Kingdom, France, Poland, Italy, Spain and Greece. The intense alliance
between Hugo Chavez's populist leftist Venezuelan government and the Islamic
Republic of Iran has opened the flood gates of anti-Semitism in Latin America..
Ballooning global anti-Semitism may contribute to a growing aliyah rate..
According to the Jewish Agency, there was a 17 percent increase in 2009 aliyah
compared to 2008. Across Europe, aliyah spiked from 2,402 to 2,600, and South
American Jewry showed immigration rising from 1,078 to 1,230.
Last December, while speaking at the third annual Global Forum for Combating
Anti-Semitism in Jerusalem, Dr. Daniel Pipes predicted that an "exodus" of
Diaspora Jews in Europe could take place because European Jews are facing
lethal anti-Semitism. According to Pipes, the migration could "replicate the
post-World War II exodus of Jews from Muslim countries, where the Jewish
population has collapsed from about a million in 1948 to 60,000 today."
The Jewish Agency study shows the obvious links between Diaspora Jews and
Israel. While Nazi racial anti-Semitism has largely drifted into oblivion,
European countries fail to see that the new outbreak of anti-Semitism revolves
around turning Israel and Diaspora Jewry into a punching bag.
As the study highlighted, a broad-based coalition among left-wing and Islamic
organizations is coupled with an understanding that chalks up violent attacks
on Jews and Israeli as a justified byproduct of the Israel-Palestinian
situation.
A telling example was the marriage of the German Left with Muslim organizations
during Operation Cast Lead. While over 100,000 Germans participated in
anti-Israeli rallies, where incitement to murder Jews and Israelis was chanted,
the police instead seized Israeli flags for "provoking" anti-Israeli
demonstrators. One young student in the gritty industrial city of Bochum was
arrested and fined for waving an Israeli flag at a pro-Israel protest. The
German Parliament ignored the explosion of anti-Semitism and did not open an
investigation into the mass festivals of Israel hate.
Large European trade union federations, such as the Irish Trade Union Congress
and the British Trades Union Congress, have spearheaded efforts to equate
Israel with Nazi Germany and sponsor economic and cultural boycotts of the
Jewish state. A 2008 Irish Trade Union report drew parallels between Israel's
efforts to block weapons smuggling into Gaza and the Nazi creation of the
Warsaw Ghetto.
While England and Germany have formed commissions to monitor anti-Semitism, one
commission member in Germany urged a focus on extreme right-wing anti-Semitism
instead of the dominant form of Jew-hatred - Islamic and leftist anti-Semitism.
The same holds true for President Shimon Peres's audience in the German
Parliament. He is slated to speak on Wednesday, International Holocaust Day, to
members of the German parliament, many of whom from the Left Party participated
in pro-Hamas and pro-Hizbullah demonstrations, where calls for Israel's
destruction were advocated. Eleven Left Party MPs voted against a parliamentary
resolution equating opposition tothe Jewish state with anti-Semitism.
The more than 100 members of the German-Israeli parliamentary group spanning
the six major parties (Greens, Christian Democrats, Social Democrats, Christian
Social Union, Free Democrats and Left) will also attend Peres's speech. While
those MPs are supposed to advance the security of Israel, they have neither
initiated a bill to ban their government's insurance coverage for firms active
in Iran nor introduced legislation seeking to curtail the flourishing
German-Iranian trade relationship. The chairman of the German-Israel
parliamentary group, Jerzy Montag from the Green Party, has difficulty
understanding that anti-Zionism equals anti-Semitism.
Israel's decision to convene an inter-ministerial task force to combat global
anti-Semitism will do little to stem international anti-Semitism. Observers in
Europe note that mainstream Europeans view anti-Semitism as a Jewish problem to
be remedied by Jews instead of a problem driven by non-Jews who are also
responsible for the cure. That helps to explain the unsettling statistics in
the Bielefeld and Jewish Agency report throwing the blame back on Jews.
The results of the Jewish Agency study reveal a mushrooming anti-Israeli
atmosphere in Europe and South America that will probably spur new increases in
aliyah rates. Yet European policy makers, academics and politicians should not
express that they are"shocked, shocked" to discover that Jews will once again
flee Europe for refuge inthe Jewish state.
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