The New Anti-Semitism

[gilliam]

Hatred of Jews has reached new heights in Europe and many points south and east of the old continent. Last year I chaired a blue-ribbon committee of British parliamentarians, including former ministers and a party leader, that examined the problem of anti-Semitism in Britain. None of us are Jewish or active in the unending debates on the Israeli-Palestinian question.

Our report showed a pattern of fear among a small number of British citizens – there are around 300,000 Jews in Britain, of whom about a third are observant – that is not acceptable in a modern democracy. Synagogues attacked. Jewish schoolboys jostled on public transportation. Rabbis punched and knifed. British Jews feeling compelled to raise millions to provide private security for their weddings and community events. On campuses, militant anti-Jewish students fueled by Islamist or far-left hate seeking to prevent Jewish students from expressing their opinions.

More worrisome was what we described as anti-Jewish discourse, a mood and tone whenever Jews are discussed, whether in the media, at universities, among the liberal media elite or at dinner parties of modish London. To express any support for Israel or any feeling for the right of a Jewish state to exist produces denunciation, even contempt.

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[WanderAimlessly]

New? I think not. It was just bottled up for years after Hitler. Socialists, Marxists, and Secular Relativists are the same no matter what year it is.

 

[Bennie_P]

Myself I fell into anti-semitic mindset when I was in college, without realizing it for a long time. At the time I was involved in left leaning politics and was even president of our campus anti-nuke anti-war group for a short period of time. My favorite professor was a professor of politcal science whom happen to be an Iranian-American who grow up in Bagdad, during the 40s and 50s. By the time I graduated I focused more on the failings of the Israeli government instead of putting thier situtation into historically perspective. I become adjitated toward all Jews and grew more and more anti-Christian. I was originally attracted to left-wing politics because of my sense of injustice and racism in the world, what I actually found in the long run in the name of tolerance was myself becoming more intolerant and hateful toward Jews and Christians while accepting, toleranting and making coalitions with arrogant, self- centered bigots that talked of equality but who were more interested about getting what they could get for themselves (personal rights) then a real concern for need of others. Thank God shortly after graduation I started to see the hippocrasy of all of these so-called peace and love individuals and movements for the peace they wanted was to be left alone in peace with thier own selfishness without any moral guage and the love of themselves and personal agendas. Many sincere individuals within these movements were being manipulated by those leaders which had a whole diffferent agenda then what they preached. Being one of those leaders (though a very minor player in the overall view of things, for I really was a nobody) on campus I was able to see things and hear things of and by other leaders that wasn’'t projected or promoted to others in general. Otherwise many were very hateful in thier attitudes toward Israel, Jews, Christians and Judea-Christian culture in general. I find a lot of people tend to play lip-service to the atrocisties against Jews through history, while I think they secretly wish Hilter completed the job he started. With my continued conversion over the years and finally my conversion into full communion with the Church I now see Judaism in a whole new light, its importance to me and my salvation and its personal endurance up against evil through history.

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