Many even have good consciences and feel they are on the side of The Good. If they would begin began to read some books on history, they will see that anti-Semites have always thought they were on the side of The Good.
A few days ago, the Simon Wiesenthal Center, one of the leading Jewish human rights organizations today, published its “Top 10” list of the world’s worst anti-Semitic/anti-Israel slurs. The usual suspects are named and in the top spots : Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President of the Islamic Republic of Iran; Mohammed Badie, the “moral guide” of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt; and Louis Farrakhan, the leader in the US of the Nation of Islam. It is not exactly a secret that the hatred of Jews and Israel has permeated Iran’s “Islamic revolution” from the beginning; that the doctrine of the Muslim Brotherhood is radically anti-Semitic, and that Louis Farrakhan himself is an obsessive anti-Semite who has described Hitler several times as a “very great man.”
But, apart from a Brazilian cartoonist whose drawings resemble those found in the anti-Semitic press in Europe in the 1930s, all the others mentioned are European. Nikolaos Michaloliakos, the founder of the Greek neo-Nazi party, Golden Dawn, a man who denies the existence of the Holocaust in front of enthusiastic crowds, appears in the report beside Marton Gyongyosi, a leader of the far right Jobbik Party in Hungary, who said in front of Parliament that the government should “draw up a list of Jews representing a national security risk for the country”. A Norwegian convert to Islam, Trond Ali Linstad, owner of a website warning readers to “beware the Jews” and condoning suicide bombing, is named, as well as Oleg Tyagnibok, founder of the “All Ukrainian” Svoboda Party, who called for purges of the Jews living in Ukraine; and German journalist Jakob Augstein, writing for Der Spiegel online, who was described by another German journalist, Die Welt columnist Henryk M. Broder, as a “pure anti-Semite, who only missed the opportunity to make his career with the Gestapo because he was born after the war”.
None of those who are mentioned protested, except the German journalist, who said what many Jew haters in Europe constantly repeat: that he is not an anti-Semite, that he just despises Israel. But, in the reading what he wrote — Jewish fundamentalists “follow the law of revenge,” the Israeli government is “insane” and “keeps the world on a leash with an ever-swelling war chant” — it is possible to have doubts.
Anti-Semitism is rising again in Europe, and it it is rising fast. Many others — politicians, activists, journalists and writers — could be on the list. The anti-Semitism in Hungary, the Ukraine, and Greece is mostly the old-style anti-Semitism, which carries essentially National Socialist themes, in Norway, Sweden, Belgium, and the Netherlands, however, what permeates the air is more and more an Islamic anti-Semitism; and converts such as Trond Ali Lindstad play a more and more important role in disseminating the hatred of Jews now spreading in Europe. A third component is taking an increasingly significant place, the aim of which seems to be a noxious general context : anti-Semitism hiding under the mask of “anti-Zionism”.
In some ways, Jakob Augstein was right to protest : he is not the only one to do what he does and to write what he writes. He belongs to a trend so dominant in Europe now that to European readers, his articles seem normal. Many in Europe are so contemptuous of Israel that they do not even discern anymore that they are contemptuous. They do not even see that the words they readily use to describe Israel — and the Israelis — are from the vocabulary used in the 1930s to describe Jews. They often borrow their words from the Islamic anti-Israeli propaganda without seeing that these words were borrowed by the Islamist movements from the Nazis.
An anti-Semitic and “anti-Zionist” nebula takes shape, in which old style anti-Semitism, Islamic anti-Semitism and “anti-Zionism” coexist and interpenetrate.
It is dangerous to be a Jew today in Europe. And it is very unsafe to defend Israel. Jews who take care to be discreet can live an almost normal life. Jews who are visibly Jews take more risks. Jews who defend Israel take extreme risks.
Organizations that are supposed to fight anti-Semitism see only one kind of anti-Semitism: the old-style one. They almost never speak of Islamic anti-Semitism. They even lull themselves into the belief that “anti-Zionism” is not an anti-Semitism. Their undertakings, therefore, are doomed to defeat.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center’s “Top 10” list was not quoted or commented on in Europe, except in Germany, where all the friends of Jakob Augstein and Der Spiegel expressed their indignation, and said that the list was “preposterous” and “baseless .” A column published on January 7th in Der Spiegel online speaks of a “scandal,” and blames Rabbi Abraham Cooper, Associate Dean of the Center, who established the final version of the list, for refusing to debate Jakob Augstein. Cooper said that Augstein first had to “publicly apologize for the statements that earned him his designation.” Der Spiegel answers that Abraham Cooper’s demands are absurd and “seem to stem from a different world.”
Abraham Cooper’s demands do stem from a different world: in the United States, people such as Louis Farrakhan are still the exception; and journalists who write what Jakob Augstein writes are published mostly in extremist journals, not in mainstream publications. Europe has never really drawn the lessons from her past.
Anti-Semitism has been present on the European continent for nearly two millennia. It seemed to disappear after the Holocaust, but was apparently just hidden. It returns, in full light. Most of those who embody it do not even try to disguise what they think. Others dress it in new rags. Many even have good consciences and are sure they are on the side of The Good. If they would begin to read some books on history, they will see that anti-Semites have always thought they were on the side of The Good.
© Guy Millière pour www.Dreuz.info
This article was first published on gatestoneinstitute.org
Interview intéressante qu’on m’a envoyé (et que je connaissais pas !)
Alexandre Jardin La vérité au grand jour 1 mai 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1r2_W4lJd4M&feature=youtu.be
Even if you are not Jewish you are threatened when you defend the right of Israël to live as a Nation. Your own “friends” will target you at the first occasion if you openly say that you are a pro-zionist. The racists in Europe do not see the incoherence of hating Muslim and hating Jews, and they even hate Jews far more than Muslims. Their hatred toward Jewish people blinds them totally, pushing them to support the palestinians even though they claim they want all the muslim dead everywhere else.
The “anti-zionist”, their polite way to say anti-semitic, think the Jews are responsible for everything that happens in the world, they see them as ruling everything, secretly, viciously. The mind of anti-semitic is so twisted and confuse that no argument can help to make it see clearly. To some point their only response will be to abuse and threaten you. I’ve often felt disrespect, disregard and even hate when exposing my love and respect to Israël and the People of this Holy Land, and I know some could harm me for that choice.
This only makes me a little more pro-zionist everyday. This greatly reinforce my beliefs that Israël must expand and prosper. The more they explain their reasons to hate Israël the more I love Her.
Here is what you need to make up a conspiracy theory : prejudice + 1 fact + 1 inference * prejudice.
Example : I do not like Mr. A. I saw him enter the forest last night, I did not see him get out of the forest but I saw a lone wolf still standing up a rock staring at me just minutes later. Yes sir, this man actually is a wolf.
I think that it is mainly because of the fact that people can’t talk freely about what they “think”. When you can’t talk no one can answer you, so you keep the impression that your thoughts are true.
For that reason I am for the total freedom of speech. The more something is forbiden, the more frustation and hate grow.
Excluding visceral racists and preventing others from insults and threats, of course, it would be good to hear the arguments of anti-zionists against jewish people.
If we could hear the arguments of these anti-semites we could contradict them, easily, but, since the freedom of speech is limited, they do not dare to talk and we are not able to contradict them.
I know some people would think the opposite. That’s my opinion.
And many (all?) of the worst europeans are anti-semites…
Pouvez faire la même en Français Guy ? Apparemment les gens qui parlent votre langue semblent concernés …
Non parce qu’il ne faudrait surtout pas donner raison à Soros de financer le CCIF et certains juifs dont le but est de détruire les chrétiens en Europe ça fait un peu tâche ..
Thanks Guy for this extremely good article. Good to have someone like you on our side.
I fully agree with you about this article:”Many of the Worst Antisemites Are European”.
However, I have been living in California in the end of the 70’s (for one year), and I feel, that at this time, there was more Anti-Semitism than in France. But as you write,Anti-Semitism “seemed to desappear after the Holocaust, but was apparently just hidden” in Europe.
As you write: “It is dangerous to be a Jew today in Europe. And it is very unsafe to defend Israel”. True! Quite true!
Et je continue en français parce que c’est quand même plus facile!
Juste pour dire que c’est difficile tout simplement d’être pro-israélien qu’on soit Juif ou pas. C’est sans doute pour cette raison que de nombreux Juifs se déclarent ouvertement “pro-palestiniens” et que d’encore plus nombreux non-Juifs (qui ne sont pas “antisémites”) leur emboîtent le pas! C’est tellement plus facile!
Mon amie a vécu vingt ans en Amérique du Sud et il paraît que là-bas l’anti-sémitisme est très fort.
My friend lived in South America for twenty years and she said that the anti-semitism is strong there too.
Hopefully this type of list is still being released and debated -for now. The anti-Israel brainwashing has been so powerful that the younger generations now have to work very (very) hard in order to just get the facts right. Not to speak of a clear and sane view of the situation in the Near East.
This type of contribution (including your article) in the midst of the mire is therefore everything but vain. The average and occasional reader’s mind needs to be fed the truth at some point in their “surfing experience.”
When the muslims are antisemith one can understand ,but when you have all those “beautiful souls” I ask the question why? The answer is that they prefer weak jews or dead fews. One question ,what happened to “Le Point” they have become ani Israeli for the last few months, can you tell me why??
Superbe article, on veut le même in french please! 😉
Guy Millière responsable de l’anti-sémitisme en France ?
En effet, quand un français parle en anglais pour dire que les français sont anti-sémitites, les Français appellent ça des faux-derches.
Historiquement d’ailleurs, les anglos-saxons ne peuvent être soupçonnés de ne pas être une belle dande de faux derches.
Faux-derches que le juif assimile facilement à de l’anti-sémitisme..
Il toujours est marrant de voir les juifs mieux connaître ce que pensent les autres que ce que les autres pensent eux même…
C’est d’ailleurs en pensant à la place des autres que les autres se rebiffent.. N’oubliez pas..
Traduction SVP car j’aimerais le faire partager. Merci!
I am very surprized that some of you discover just now that the anti -Jews is European, Old Continent problem. Not only from experience, but also from historys writing, all big events begin and belongs to the Europe countrys, like Spain, Portugal, Ucrainian, Russian, and not so long ago, Nazi-Germany. Even before the Inchizition, Pogroms and exterminations, all hapened in Europe, and all against people of Jewish Religion, the same as today, only the name is different, it is Anty-Zionizm. For me, the new name is Fantastic. Thanks to God, Balfour-Declaration, the 1920 Decision, Ben-Gurion Initiative, and our couragios Tzahal, we are not anymore Jews, we are ISRAEL- yans, we have our own Country, Army, Governement, Justition, and the very sweet Name, Israel, together with the small piece of land given to us by God, wich we cherish and protect, and we are very, very Proud of. !!!! Because of all this, and the stupids gealousy, allso the Arabs and the Europeans are, from day to day, more Antysemits, and Hateful for our succes eforts of security