THE SCARY thing about European anti-Semitism is that it is
now practiced on both the conservative Right and the liberal Left. A poll
conducted on behalf of the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism (CAA) among 3,411
British adults were asked which of the following statements do you associate
with the word 'Jew'?
Jews think they are better than other people.
In business, Jews are not as honest as most people
In business, Jews are not as honest as most people
I would be unhappy if
a family member married a Jew.
Jews have too much power in the media.
Jews chase money more than other British people.
Jews’ loyalty to Israel makes them less loyal to Britain than other British people.
Jews talk about the Holocaust too much in order to get sympathy.
Jews have too much power in the media.
Jews chase money more than other British people.
Jews’ loyalty to Israel makes them less loyal to Britain than other British people.
Jews talk about the Holocaust too much in order to get sympathy.
Nearly half believed that one of
these statements were true[1]. As I look down
the list there are two examples of such prejudices that have plagued Jewish
people throughout their 2,000 year Diaspora (particularly in Europe). For
instance; Jews chase money more than other British people (I had no idea
Tony Blair was Jewish); or in business; Jews are not
as honest as most people. They
could have added to the list of such anti-Semitic shibboleths the ancient and
infamous 'Blood Libel' which accused the Jews of sacrificing
Christian children as part of religious rituals during Jewish holidays.
One would have hoped that after
the Holocaust such examples of insensitivity would have passed into ancient
folk law of a not very attractive nature. But no, another of the questions
which the CAA included in the poll was, Jews talk
about the Holocaust too much in order to get sympathy. This is not an
ancient, but a modern shibboleth. The CAA must have included this out of the
same feeling I have had; that particularly on the Left, and in light of the
conflict between the Israelis and Palestinians, they are trying to somewhat
sulkily undermine this egregious event on the Jewish calendar in order to gain
support for the Palestinians.
By undermining the Holocaust, the
Left hope to de-sensitise people from its impact on the past 70 years since the
end the end of the Second World War. Jews continually talk about the Holocaust,
because it was the seminal event in their 2,000 years of survival within the
Diaspora. Every Jew living today has some ancestral connection to the
Holocaust.
If the English had been introduced to such a
fate as that shown to the Jews between the rise of Hitler and the ending of his
war on civilisation; then such talk by the English
about their Holocaust as being used 'to gain sympathy' would be considered an
outrage…especially if six million English men women and children had been
introduced to the gas chambers.
What this poll shows is that the
Jews need a homeland more than ever: a place of safety in which to retreat to
when the virus of anti-Semitism gains its grip and spreads within Europe once
more as a kind of sickness now engaging the Left more than the Right today. The
Palestinian cause has driven the Left into anti-Semitism - an anti-Semitism
that shields itself under the 'respectable' umbrella of anti-Zionism.
IF THE CURRENT
European-wide spread of anti-Semitism proves one thing above all other, it is
that the Jewish people still need a state of their own; and this state is of
course Israel. Israel is the magnet that draws those Jews who face anti-Semitic persecution toward them in other
parts of the world, into the arms of the Israeli state. Israel offers them the
ultimate protection whereas the Diaspora has historically failed to do. Which
is why one in four British Jews (in this poll) have considered leaving the UK.
We are entering a new and
worrying period for Europe's Jewish population; which this time is facing discrimination,
not only from its traditional enemies on the Right – but now also from the Left;
because of the Left's addiction to the Palestinian cause.
The Jews have been the whipping
boys of history. How they have managed to survive to this day is a wonder to
me. They have had to forbear such prejudice of a type that no other ethnic
minority have had to do, including black
slaves. The Jewish survival deserves its Jewish homeland and it was granted it
by the United Nations in 1949. This newly formed state of Israel welcomed its
people from all four corners of the world to become part of the Jewish state.
ISRAEL IS THE DIASPORA
JEW'S ultimate refuge from anti-Semitic persecution from wherever it originates
in other parts of the world. Israel is the Jewish homeland and without it world
Jewry would face an uncertain, bleak, and empty future. A future that could always
be undermined by anti-Semitic prejudice at any moment in any part of the world
that the indigenous population sees fit to use against it. And let us not
forget that turning against the Jewish community has been a popular sport historically
throughout Europe, whenever a failing economic situation demands a guilty party.
Under such circumstances it
usually the 'greedy and avaricious Jews' who are to blame for any economic
failure. Jews are not after all; '…as honest as
most people'. This
is the kind of anti-Semitism the liberal Left have signed up to on behalf of
their Palestinian Hamas terrorists.
I do not want to get into
arguments about the rights and wrongs of the Israel/Palestinian conflict:
although I support the state of Israel. But these aspects are not related to what this piece is all about.
This piece is about, particularly, European anti-Semitism; and the extent to
which the CAA poll seems to confirm this – at least as far as the UK is
concerned anti-Semitism in the UK is growing. But how much of this growth is to
do with our Islamic community or our liberal anti-Semitic pro-Palestinian
prejudice, is in dispute.
I would say that both are
equally culpable.
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