Exhibit A: The Egyptian minister of culture lost his bid to become the head of UNESCO, after a campaign that showed his viciously anti-Israel feelings, which he insisted weren’t anti-Semitism. How does he respond? By blaming “New York Jews.”
“There are a group of the world’s Jews who had a major influence in the elections who were a serious threat to Egypt taking this position,” he said.
The Arab media, of course, carries the party line, and blames Jews and “the Zionist media” for the failure of their candidate.
Exhibit B: The Supreme Leader of Iran calls Israel “the deadly cancer of Zionism” while his hand-picked president denies the Holocaust and then tells the world he is proud of his Holocaust denial. He repeated the same filthy Jewish conspiracy accusations he raised last year in this year’s speech, and although this year a few Western nations walked out, Sweden (among others) felt that the following was not enough Jew-hatred to make their delegates leave:
The dignity, integrity and rights of the American and European people are being played with by a small but deceitful number of people called Zionists. Although they are a miniscule minority, they have been dominating an important portion of the financial and monetary centers as well as the political decision-making centers of some European countries and the US in a deceitful, complex and furtive manner. It is deeply disastrous to witness that some presidential or premiere nominees in some big countries have to visit these people, take part in their gatherings, swear their allegiance and commitment to their interests in order to attain financial or media support.
This means that the great people of America and various nations of Europe need to obey the demands and wishes of a small number of acquisitive and invasive people. These nations are spending their dignity and resources on the crimes and occupations and the threats of the Zionist network against their will.
The Swedish government also cleared the Aftonbladet of anti-Semitism over their lie-filled article about the IDF killing palestinians for their organs.
Neither am I surprised that the only place you can find the above lines is in articles with the full text of the speech. The media ignored Ahmadinejad’s anti-Semitism last year as well.
Exhibit C: Spain disqualified an Israeli college team from an international solar power contest, not because the team broke the rules—but because the college is located in the West Bank. Apparently, global warming is an urgent cause, but the Palestinian cause is more important than even saving the earth from itself. (No, I don’t believe global warming is happening. But these people do. The Exception Clause reigns.) And of course, we heard only a few days ago that anti-Semitism in Spain is on the rise.
What do all these things have in common? They are claimed to be anti-Zionism. And yet, they resemble nothing so much as anti-Semitism.
You can put a wig and a fancy ball-gown on a pig, add earings and make-up, and yet, in the end, you still have a pig.
Yes, it’s anti-Semitism. Let’s stop pretending that it’s not.
If I read this correctly, you’ve mixed up the Swedish and Swiss governments.
Not that either one has clean hands when it comes to WW2.
Yep. Deleted the passage about Swiss banks. Thanks, Gerry. (I always mix those two nations up. I’m just one of those ugly Americans, I guess.)
Regarding the last point, it’s interesting to note that Spain never needs to take this kind of treatment when its own citizens hail from the Spanish-occupied Basque territories or from the lands they annexed from Morocco. Hypocrisy, they name is Spain (and Europe in general).
And the Muslims still complain about “occupied” Andulasia.
BTW, this should increase your respect for Sting. Once upon a time he wouldn’t tour Israel. But in recent years in conjunction with his pal Garry Kasparov he actually visited Elkana (a “settlement” in the Shomron) because its elementary school won a chess tournament.
http://articles.latimes.com/2000/jun/30/news/mn-46579
You do have to feel bad for Leonard Cohen though.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/24/AR2009092403384.html
He’s apparently not anti-Israel enough.
My parents survived the Holocaust, the vast majority of their relatives and friends did not.
As a child I could not believe the horror of what happened, I attributed the slaughter of the Jews to the crazy Germans and wondered how the rest of Europe could stand by and do so little to prevent the barbarity of what happened. Sadly, as an adult I realize that anti-Semitism was not eradicated as guilt for the slaughter of the innocents, but now like a plague, has morphed back to life again, this time fed by the psychotic logic of the Arabs, and their left wing useful idiots. What will it take for the comatose Jews in America and elsewhere to wake up and fight back? Specifically, here in the USA we need to tell the #$%^^ democrat party to go to hell!
“What will it take for the comatose Jews in America and elsewhere to wake up and fight back?”
Ah, but that’s the brilliance of anti-semitism. By accusing the Jews of secret plots, which cannot be proved and therefore cannot be disproved either, the anti-semites set up a system by which Jews are punished for contradicting anti-semites in any way, and punished more if they passively allow the anti-semites to spew their hate unchallenged. The only way to break that cycle is to fight back violently and with overwhelming force against the slightest offense until the anti-semites are too weak and terrified to continue, but the Jewish culture forbids such reckless behavior.