Europe’s Anti-Semitism at the Top and Bottom

[Valin]

Via Meadia:

Mar. 1 2015

 

Anti-Semitism reached a seven-year high worldwide in 2013, the most recent year for which data is available, according to a new Pew report. The study also found that hostility toward Jews is widespread in Europe, where governments aren’t the source of persecution, but where “Jews were harassed by individuals or social groups in 34 of the region’s 45 countries (76%).” That was 2013; since then, with the openly anti-Semitic protests of the last Gaza war and the massacre at Hyper Cacher supermarket being only the most prominent examples, the situation has gotten worse.

 

Persecution doesn’t have to be official to be effective. The hostility of ordinary people and the continuous threat of the violent few is enough to drive thousands of European Jews to seek a better life, despite government protections and reassurances. How many Jews will remain in Europe ten years from now?

 

Some European politicians have spoken out against the continent’s anti-Semitism, none more prominent than French Prime Minister Manuel Valls, who is interviewed in this weekend’s WSJ. But that interview illustrates just how unlikely Europe is to eradicate its prejudices. Jew hatred is not confined to the usual suspects, the Islamist sympathizers and now-ascendent fascists. On the contrary: beginning in the 1970s, French elites adopted and spread anti-Semitism under cover of anti-Zionism:

 

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All I have to say is....

 

"I will bless those who bless you,

and whoever curses you I will curse”

God

 

Now I'm not the brightest bulb on the tree, but it seems to me that having God cursing you is (generally speaking) not a good thing, and something you really should try to avoid.....but that's just me.