A New Jewish Exodus?

[Valin]

Via Meadia:

11/8/13

 

Anti-semitism is reaching terrifyingly high levels in Europe. According to a new survey by the EUs Fundamental Rights Agency, almost half of the Jews in some European countries have considered emigration due to anti-semitism. The BBC has more:

 

The survey of 5,847 Jewish people said 66% of those who responded considered anti-Semitism to be a problem.

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Interestingly, the piece reports that European Jews tend to believe that anti-semitism is coming mostly from Muslim populations and from the European left-wing, not from the European right-wing. It appears that left-wing hostility to orthodox religion and to religious practices like circumcision is combining with Muslim anger about Israel, making the EU an increasingly unfriendly place for Jews. If these trends continue to gather momentum, we may soon see a significant minority of Jews leaving their home countries for more tolerant shores.

[Valin]

Anti-Semitism a Growing Problem in Europe

EU report: Jews live in fear of abuse

Washington Free Beacon Staff

11/8/13

 

Desecrated Jewish cemetery in France / AP

 

Anti-Semitism is on the rise in several European countries, according to a new report from the European Union.

 

Seventy-six percent of Jews surveyed by the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights reported that anti-Semitism was growing more acute in Europe and 57 percent said they witnessed someone claim that the Holocaust was a myth or exaggerated.

 

The survey included 5,847 self-identified Jews over 16 years old living in Belgium, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. The participants were asked about anti-Semitic occurrences they had experienced in the last 12 months.

 

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[Valin]

Meanwhile a little Golden Oldie, At Blast From the Past

 

75 Years Later: How the World Shrugged Off Kristallnacht

Klaus Wiegrefe

11/5/13

 

 

 

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This week marks the 75th anniversary of what Leipzig-based historian Dan Diner has called the "catastrophe before the catastrophe." This prompted the German Foreign Ministry to take the unusual step of asking 48 countries that had diplomatic missions in Germany in 1938 to search their archives for reports on the November pogrom.

 

For months, the Foreign Ministry has been receiving copies of historical documents previously unknown to experts. Beginning next Monday, the Foreign Ministry and the Berlin Centrum Judaicum will display a selection of the documents at the New Synagogue on Oranienburger Strasse, in an exhibition titled "From the Inside to the Outside: The 1938 November Pogroms in Diplomatic Reports from Germany."

 

Despite the often-truncated form of the reports and the detached language of the diplomats, these are impressive documents with historical value. They attest to the fate of the Jewish orphanage in Esslingen, near Stuttgart, where a mob of Nazi sympathizers drove children out into the streets; of Jews who were forced to march in rows of two through Kehl, in southwestern Germany, and shout "We are traitors to Germany"; and of terrified people hiding in forests near Berlin.

 

What is also noteworthy about the documents is what they do not contain. In this respect, they point to the failure of the international community and its far-reaching consequences. The diplomats almost unanimously condemned the murders and acts of violence and destructions. The British described the pogrom as "Medieval barbarism," the Brazilians called it a "disgusting spectacle," and French diplomats wrote that the "scope of brutality" was only "exceeded by the massacres of the Armenians," referring to the Turkish genocide of 1915-1916.

 

Nevertheless, no country broke off diplomatic relations with Berlin or imposed sanctions, and only Washington recalled its ambassador. Most of all, however, the borders of almost all countries remained largely closed for the roughly 400,000 Jewish Germans.

 

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[nickydog]

:

11/8/13

 

Anti-semitism is reaching terrifyingly high levels in Europe. According to a new survey by the EUs Fundamental Rights Agency, almost half of the Jews in some European countries have considered emigration due to anti-semitism. The BBC has more:

 

The survey of 5,847 Jewish people said 66% of those who responded considered anti-Semitism to be a problem.

(Snip)

Interestingly, the piece reports that European Jews tend to believe that anti-semitism is coming mostly from Muslim populations and from the European left-wing, not from the European right-wing. It appears that left-wing hostility to orthodox religion and to religious practices like circumcision is combining with Muslim anger about Israel, making the EU an increasingly unfriendly place for Jews. If these trends continue to gather momentum, we may soon see a significant minority of Jews leaving their home countries for more tolerant shores.

 

 

Saw this on Drudge. First time I had read anything about this.

[Valin]

Saw this on Drudge. First time I had read anything about this.

That's because there is *nothing to see here...now move along.

 

 

 

* and if there is its all the Jews fault. If only they would quietly line and wait to be killed everything would be fine.