I’m starting to see the words “at its worst level since 1936” in stories about European anti-Semitism. This is both frightening and depressing. The world just does not like the Jews.
A Jewish peer has warned that anti-Semitism is at its worst level in Britain since he fled here from Germany in 1936.
Lord Moser said he was particularly concerned about anti-Jewish feeling in Britain’s universities.
Addressing a House of Lords debate on anti-Semitism on university campuses, the crossbench peer said: “It is just over 70 years since I came to this country and I have to say that I’ve never been more concerned about the rising tide of anti-Semitism throughout Europe, including this country.
“This is evident in many ways and among my greatest worries is what is happening on university campuses where there have been many examples of anti-Semitic outbursts and discrimination.
“Leadership of the universities and the Government need to speak out in the strongest terms against such interference.”
The world does not like the Jews.
Apparently, Lord Moser wasn’t alone in his fears.
Student unions must be brought within the Race Relations Amendment Act to protect Jewish students and university leaders must crack down on anti-semitism on campus, Lady Deech, the independent adjudicator for higher education, urged last night.
She told the House of Lords that increasing anti-semitism posed a threat in British universities and strongly condemned the proposed academic boycott of Israel by members of the University and College Union.
[…] It should be a condition of funding and research grants that universities should explicitly oppose all discrimination and political sanctions against scholars on the ground of religion or ethnicity or nationality, she said.
“‘Zionist’ has become a word of opprobrium – all Jews are so labelled – and attacks on Jews rose with the occurrence of the Lebanon war – attacks on Jews in this country and elsewhere, not attacks on Israeli buildings,” Lady Deech told peers.
She added: “Once the equation is made between Zionism and Jews, anti-semites then feel free to attack all Jewish students without distinction. Protests start as attacks on Israel and conclude with threats to all Jews.”
Much has been written on the fact that the British academic boycott is being over-harshly reacted to by Israel and Jews. But that isn’t true. Every step forward for the boycott movement is a step they never go back. Every move against Israel is another tiny chink in the armor protecting the Jewish State from being delegitimized by the haters. And these movements are run by the Jew-haters, make no mistake about it. The point isn’t that the boycotters are going to fail, because they are in the minority. The point is that the boycotters have moved the goalposts again. The boycotters may have some people who honestly believe they are only acting in the interests of the “oppressed” Palestinians, but they are devised by, and run by, those who hate Israel, and Jews, with every breath they take. The true purpose of these boycotts is not to boycott, but to eventually utterly destroy the nation state of Israel—and replace it with a “binational” state called “Palestine.”
However, I have to say, on this one, Dershowitz needs to STFU. He’s over the top. I think the point can be made without threatening to “devastate and bankrupt” the boycotters. Way to shoot the ball into the wrong goal, Dersh.
The alliance between the Loony Left and the Islamofascists is bearing bitter fruit.
The British would probably call Dersh’s comments an own goal.
On the other hand, if Western Civilization is not to succumb to Islamist attack, it may someday be necessary to do something about the fifth columnists in the West who are apologists for and allies of the Islamofascists. As Joel says there is an alliance between the radical Leftists in the West who, dissatisfied with the outcome of the Cold WAr, still seek the destruction of the USA and the West, and the Islamists who want the same things. The radical Leftists think they will then successfully challenge the Islamists for the rule over the ruins, but they are deluding themselves. They will fail, just as they did in Iran.
I do not recall, in my reading about WWII, a great deal of tolerance for propaganda by Axis fifth columnists in Britain and America, not to mention legal harassment of those fighting the Axis by disloyal lawyers and activist groups. We should not tolerate it now either. The stakes are too high, and as a USSC Justice once said, the Constitution is not a suicide pact.