Anti-Semitism has never left Europe. It never will, even if every single Jew in Europe moves to another continent. And it seems to be in vogue again. And why not, when the European press demonizes Israel at every opportunity?
A wave of anti-Semitism and attacks against rabbis has been plaguing Eastern and Western Europe, and in just two weeks three rabbis in three different cities were harassed by locals.
The first incident took place in Berlin, Germany, when 36-year-old Rabbi Yehuda Teichtel was driving eight of his students in a minivan. Local police reported that two unknown persons in a Mercedes passed the van and blocked it from proceeding, crying insults of an anti-Semitic nature.
The driver of the vehicle then threw a molotov cocktail at the van, but luckily it did not explode and rabbi and students remained unharmed.
Gee, going after a van full of Jewish students… what does that remind you of?
Two other attacks, in Russia and Prague. The one in Prague had an unexpected result:
“One of them kicked me. I tried to defend myself; I was in the army and I still remember a bit of ‘krav maga’. Then I returned to the restaurant and called for help. Meanwhile they threw two stones; one of them hit my foot and the other hit the door of the restaurant.
“We threw the stones back at them. They started to run but bumped into the Jewish community’s security officers, who called the police. The men were arrested and confessed that they had come to hurt Jews.”
Please note that it was the Jewish community security officers that stopped the attack. And name another religious group that has to supply its own security throughout the world. I don’t think you can.
Meanwhile, Germans are busy desecrating Jewish cemeteries…
Police say a pig’s head and an anti-Semitic banner were left at the gate of a cemetery in the city of Gotha. They said that several glasses containing a red blood-like liquid were thrown over the cemetery’s gate.
In Erfurt, a memorial plaque at the entrance gate to a Jewish cemetery was also covered in a red liquid. Police are analyzing the liquid to determine what it is.
and attacking anti-Nazi displays. Because the German students are pro-Palestinian, and gee, Jews=Israel no matter what, right?
Roughly 1,000 pupils and left-wing activists who unlawfully occupied Humboldt University (HU) and some of whom destroyed an anti-Nazi exhibition on Wednesday were reacting to the university’s close ties to Israel, the university president has said.
Christoph Markschies told The Jerusalem Post that one of the protesters in the lobby of the university said “Damn Israel” when asked by another student to “stop” vandalizing the exhibit “Betrayed and Sold,” about the plundering of Jewish businesses under the Nazis.
“Friendship with Israel is part of the HU’s identity,” said Markschies, adding that “no one can tell me that the exhibit was damaged because it was a mistake.”
Markschies had to barricade himself in his office to escape what he called “the mob.” He said that “HU was directly targeted” because of its solid partnership with Israel.
Somehow, it seems that those 1,000 students and “activists” have forgotten the meme. You know, the one that goes “It’s not anti-Semitism, it’s anti-Zionism.”
As I’ve said all along: Yes, it is anti-Semitism.
And name another religious group that has to supply its own security throughout the world. I don’t think you can
If we don’t look out for ourselves no one else will.
Yup. Anti-Zionism is most definitely a form of anti-Semitism.
Anti-Zionists want to say, essentially, that of all the world’s peoples Jews, and only Jews, despite the Holocaust, should not be allowed self-determination and self-defense.
What else could that be but anti-Semitism?
At least anti-Semites on the right are honestly anti-Semitic. Left anti-Semites dress up their anti-Semitism in the language of anti-Zionism and human rights.
Yet again, thank you Morris Meyers and Jacob Bensky, my grandparents, for leaving Poland and Lithuania, respectively, and not stopping until you got to Omaha and Rochester, New York, respectively.
Thank you, Grandpa Meyers, who considered staying in France with relatives or just going over to England.
And name another religious group that has to supply its own security throughout the world. I don’t think you can.
This is what most non-Jews don’t get. Fully 1/6 of my synagogue’s dues go to security. My friends that hear that are shocked.