That is a quote from a first american in the early 20th century
explaining what his people were alway advised to do.
Apropos, why IS Israel located in Palestine? What were the vested
interests of the people who said, figuratively, 'Get Over There... Away
From Us', counting on the shell-shocked Jewish DPs to go along... into
the continuation of the holocaust (The part that isn't
mysified,trademarked and patented yet)?
Major EU powers OWE the Jews.
Israel, the new land of milk and honey should be there!
At the Hague?... In the vicinity of the Royal Dutch Shell HQ which was
commandeered (right!) by the Nazis, and used to home the V2s in on
England over the cold North Sea employing jewish slaves for...
experiments in the physiology of flight... so to speak.
Nuremburg. Where the show trials happened, while in the background, the
real war criminals emigrated and went on working... for the west.
My dad, worked for NASA @ some hellhole in Mississipi (He got premium
pay for being there) where Werner Von Braun was stationed... My dad, a
WWII jewish combat vet started drawing caricatures, anti-Von Braun
screeds... left them laying around his desk.
He was subsequently 'visited', and told to stop. That "Mr. Von Braun is
very important to us, and you will do nothing to make him feel
...unwelcome."
There's a slice of American history for you.
I could go on...
But about anti-semitism, the kind that Americans understand:
"When he started to work with young people during the early 1990s,
anti-Semitism wasn't a problem, Wagenknecht explains. He traces much of
today's anti-Semitism to two sources: Students from Arab or Turkish
families have been politicized by the conflict in the Middle East such
that their "anti-Israeli" attitude sometimes crosses over into open
anti-Semitism. German adolescents with extreme right-wing tendencies, on
the other hand, have often been exposed to right-wing ideology and hence
dispose of a correspondingly distorted knowledge about Jews and Jewish
culture."
SPIEGEL ONLINE - December 8, 2006, 06:32 PM
URL: http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,453402,00.html
ANTI-SEMITISM AT GERMAN SCHOOLS
Insults Against Jews on the Rise
By Björn Hengst and Jan Friedmann
Right-wing adolescents and young Muslims are displaying levels of
anti-Semitism that were long considered unthinkable in Germany. At many
German schools, the word "Jew" is becoming an insult again. German
politicians don't seem to know how to respond.
The janitor at Berlin's Jean-Piaget high school in the Hellersdorf
neighborhood paints over swastikas scrawled on the walls in May, 2006.
DPA
The janitor at Berlin's Jean-Piaget high school in the Hellersdorf
neighborhood paints over swastikas scrawled on the walls in May, 2006.
The Jewish High School in Berlin's central Mitte district resembles a
high-security ward. Those who want to access the imposing old building
on Grosse Hamburger Strasse have to pass through a meticulous security
check. The building is surrounded by a fence several meters high and
video cameras register every move. Policemen stand guard in front of the
building.
"We're no ghetto," school director Barbara Wittig clarifies. "We offer
those children protection who have to fear discrimination at other
schools," she adds. And such cases have increased dramatically in the
past two years. "I always though Jews were integrated into German
society," says Wittig. "I would never have thought it possible for
anti-Semitism to express itself as virulently as it has recently."
As of this week, Wittig's students have included two girls who
previously attended the public, non-confessional Lina-Morgenstern High
School in Berlin's Kreuzberg neighborhood. Their woes attracted
considerable public attention. For months, one of the two girls, who is
14 years old, suffered anti-Semitic insults from adolescents with an
Arab background. They also beat her and spat on her. Walking to school
became like running the gauntlet for her. Her tormentors would hide in
wait for her and chase her through the streets. In the end the girl had
to be given police protection on her way to school.
Anti-Semitism on the rise
These events in Kreuzberg represent an especially drastic example, but
they're not the exception. Berlin's state parliament lists 62 reported
cases under the category "(right-wing) extremism" in its study
"Indicators of Violence at Berlin's Schools, 2004/2005." That's a steep
increase in comparison with the previous year, when only 39 cases were
registered. The category "(right-wing) extremism" includes
"anti-Semitic, racist / xenophobic and right-wing extremist remarks" by
children and adolescents, in addition to remarks that "incite racial
hatred or express fundamentalist / Islamist fundamentalist views."
One high school student in Berlin's Steglitz-Zehlendorf district said in
class: "All Jews must be gassed." Students in the
Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg district locked another student inside the
chemistry lab and said: "Now we'll turn on the gas." A non-German child
at an elementary school in Treptow-Köpenick insulted his teacher by
calling her a "Jew," a "witch" and a "sea cow." When a teaching aid in
Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg tried to settle an argument between students,
he was told: "Piss off, Jew!"
And the surge of anti-Semitism seems to be growing. In November,
Berlin's public authorities had already registered more cases of
anti-Semitism than during the entire previous year. A recent study by
the European Monitoring Center on Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC) also
criticized cases of anti-Semitism, racism and right-wing extremism at
German schools.
Right-wing extremists take up Nazi slogans
This week, in the town of Grimmen in West Pomerania, right-wing
adolescents mobilized against an exhibition on Anne Frank, disparaging
her diary as a forgery. In October, several adolescents in Parey, a town
in Germany's Saxony-Anhalt region, forced their 16- year- old classmate
to walk across the school yard wearing a large sign during lunch break.
The sign read: "In this town I'm the biggest swine / Because of the
Jewish friends of mine." It's a phrase from the Nazi era, used to
humiliate people with Jewish friends.
A teacher intervened, took the sign away and called the police. The
students responsible for the incident, who are aged between 14 and 16,
are under criminal investigation. The charges are incitement of racial
hatred, coercion and defamation. One of the students is also accused of
assault.
Berlin's Jewish community has already issued warnings about "a new
dimension of anti-Semitism." Jewish children increasingly face the
hatred of Muslim adolescents in addition to aggression from right-wing
extremists. The Jewish community advises parents to send their children
to Jewish schools in case of conflicts, pointing out that there they
will at least be safe.
Skullcaps hidden out of fear
But the protected zone ends outside the school walls. A school class
from the Jewish High School was exposed to massive anti-Semitic insults
by another Berlin school class while riding the subway. Religious Jewish
adolescents hide their skullcaps under a hat whenever they venture onto
the street.
The incidents prompted Peter Trapp, a member of the Christian Democrat
Party (CDU) in Berlin's parliament, to submit a formal query: Trapp
wants to know how many such incidents have occurred recently. He also
wants to know how many of those incidents can be attributed to "the
right-wing extremist camp" and how many can be traced to adolescents "of
non-German origin." Trapp has yet to receive a reply -- indeed, the CDU
complains that it is taking unusually long.
And yet school director Wittig insists that politicians are very much
making an effort to respond to the problem. It's just that she rarely
gets through to them with her projects and appeals, she says. Wittig
also complains that many Arab adolescents are so pig-headed it's hard to
get through to them. "And the teachers allow their students to tell
Jewish jokes," she adds.
"Jew" -- a popular insult
"Students are increasingly using the word 'Jew' in a pejorative sense.
It's climbed up a long way on the ranking of popular insults," reports
Peter Wagenknecht from the Kreuzberg-based project "Educational Building
Blocks Against Anti-Semitism." Wagenknecht and his associates educate
adolescents about anti-Semitism in specially organized workshops and
classroom talks. The project still receives financial support from the
German government.
But not everyone who uses the word "Jew" as an insult is automatically
an anti-Semite, Wagenknecht says. Many people just act thoughtlessly, in
his view. "Many students no longer have a sense of how charged the word
'Jew' is when it's used as an insult. They just want to break a taboo."
Wagenknecht points out that some students similarly use the word
"victim" as an insult intended to stigmatize someone as weak.
When he started to work with young people during the early 1990s,
anti-Semitism wasn't a problem, Wagenknecht explains. He traces much of
today's anti-Semitism to two sources: Students from Arab or Turkish
families have been politicized by the conflict in the Middle East such
that their "anti-Israeli" attitude sometimes crosses over into open
anti-Semitism. German adolescents with extreme right-wing tendencies, on
the other hand, have often been exposed to right-wing ideology and hence
dispose of a correspondingly distorted knowledge about Jews and Jewish
culture.
Wagenknecht worries that more and more Jewish students are too afraid to
openly stand up to their background: "They don't want to present
themselves as Jewish. In such cases, the class often doesn't know about
their background, and the teachers keep mum." Wagenknecht adds that the
students are often acting on advice from their parents, who want to
spare their children conflicts and exposure to aggressive behavior.
School director Wittig says: "We're now the only school in Berlin where
Jewish children can stand up to their identity. Elsewhere, most of them
have to adapt to the majority."
Related SPIEGEL ONLINE links:
Germany's Far- Right Politicians: Living with the Extremist Plague
(12/01/2006)
http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,451838,00.html
Survey on Right- Wing Extremism: Far- Right Views Established Across
German Society (11/08/2006)
http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,447255,00.html
Neo- Nazis in Germany: Right- wing Violence on the Rise (10/17/2006)
http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,443063,00.html
Neo- Nazis in Germany: Student Forced to Wear Anti- Semitic Sign
(10/13/2006)
http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,442447,00.html
