{"article":{"id":95707,"heading":"Jew Hatred","author":"Reality Check","created":"2003-11-28 13:32:38","modified":"2003-12-01 13:49:53","last_modified":"Mon, 01 Dec 2003 20:49:53","article":"

I ask each of you to read this and perhaps reflect how lucky we are here in the US, but what are we doing about the rest of world. I am beginning to dislike the French very much! Rocks have been lifted all over Europe, and the snakes of Jew-hatred are slithering free.

In Belgium, thugs beat up the chief rabbi, kicking him in the face and calling him \"a dirty Jew.\"

Two synagogues in Brussels were firebombed; a third, in Charleroi, was sprayed with automatic weapon fire.

In Britain, the cover of the New Statesman, a left-wing magazine, depicted a large Star of David stabbing the Union Jack.

Oxford professor Tom Pauline, a noted poet, told an Egyptian interviewer that American Jews who move to the West Bank and Gaza \"should be shot dead.\"

A Jewish yeshiva student reading the Psalms was stabbed 27 times on a London bus.

\"Anti-Semitism\", wrote a columnist in The Spectator, \"has become respectable . . . at London dinner tables.\" She quoted one member of the House of Lords: \"The Jews have been asking for it and now, thank God, we can say what we think at last.\"

In Italy, the daily paper La Stamp published a Page 1 cartoon: A tank emblazoned with a Jewish star points its gun at the baby Jesus, who pleads, \"Surely they don't want to kill me again?\"

In Corrie Della Sera, another cartoon showed Jesus trapped in his tomb, unable to rise, because Ariel Sharon, with rifle in hand, is sitting on the sepulchre. The caption:\"Non resurrexit.\"

In Germany, a rabbinical student was beaten up in downtown Berlin and a grenade was thrown into a Jewish cemetery. Thousands of neo-Nazis held a rally, marching near a synagogue on the Jewish Sabbath. Graffiti appeared on a synagogue in the western town of Herford: \"Six million were not enough.\"

In Ukraine, skinheads attacked Jewish worshippers and smashed the windows of Kiev's main synagogue. Ukrainian police denied that the attack was anti-Jewish.

In Greece, Jewish graves were desecrated in Loannina and vandals hurled paint at the Holocaust memorial in Salonica.

In Holland, an anti-Israel demonstration featured swastikas, photos of Hitler, and chants of \"Sieg Heil\" and \"Jews into the sea.\"

In Slovakia, the Jewish cemetery of Kosice was invaded and 135 tombstones destroyed.

But nowhere have the flames of anti-Semitism burned more furiously than in France:

In Lyon, a car was rammed into a synagogue and set on fire. In Montpellier, the Jewish religious center was firebombed; so were synagogues in Strasbourg and Marseilles; so was a Jewish school in Creteil. A Jewish sports club in Toulouse was attacked with Molotov cocktails, and on the statue of Alfred Dreyfus in Paris, the words \"Dirty Jew\" were painted.

In Bondy, 15 men beat up members of a Jewish football team with sticks and metal bars. The bus that takes Jewish children to school in Aubervilliers has been attacked three times in the last 14 months.

According to the police, metropolitan Paris has seen 10 to 12 anti-Jewish incidents per day since Easter. Walls in Jewish neighborhoods have been defaced with slogans proclaiming \"Jews to the gas chambers\" and \"Death to the Jews.\"

The weekly journal Le Nouvel Observateur published an appalling libel: It said Israeli soldiers rape Palestinian women, so that their relatives will kill them to preserve \"family honor.\"

The French ambassador to Great Britain was not sacked -- and did not apologize -- when it was learned that he had told guests at a London dinner that the world's troubles were the fault of \"...that shitty little country, Israel.\"

\"At the start of the 21st century,\" writes Pierre-Andre Taguieff, a well-known social scientist, in a new book, \"we are discovering that Jews are once again select targets of violence. . . Hatred of the Jews has returned to France.\" But of course, it never left. Not France; not Europe.

Anti-Semitism, the oldest bigotry known to man, has been a part of European society since time immemorial. In the aftermath of the Holocaust, open Jew-hatred became unfashionable; but fashions change, and Europe is reverting to type.

To be sure, some Europeans are shocked by the reemergence of Jew-hatred all over their continent. But the more common reaction has been complacency.

\"Stop saying that there is anti-Semitism in France,\" President Jacques Chirac scolded a Jewish editor in January. \"There is no anti-Semitism in France.\"

The European media have been vicious in condemning Israel's self-defense against Palestinian terrorism in the West Bank; they have been far less agitated about antiJewish terror in their own backyard.

They are making a grievous mistake. For if today the violence and vitriol are aimed at the Jews, tomorrow they will be aimed at the Christians. A timeless lesson of history is that it rarely ends with the Jews.

Militant Islamist extremists were attacking and killing Jews long before they attacked and killed Americans on Sept. 11.

The Nazis first set out to incinerate the Jews; in the end, all of Europe was ablaze Jews, it is often said, are the canary in the coal mine of civilization. When they become the objects of savagery and hate, it means the air has been poisoned and an explosion is soon to come. If Europeans don't rise up and turn against the Jew-haters, it is only a matter of time until the Jew-haters rise up and turn against them.

French Anti-Semitism Finally and long overdue, your people, oppressed and disgraced by hatred and maliciousness, have achieved justice: now you enjoy full citizen's rights, but you'll remain Jews nonetheless.\" Franz Grillparzer (1791-1872), Austrian author.

A gunman opened fire on a kosher butcher's shop (and, of course, the butcher) in Toulouse, France; a Jewish couple in their 20s were beaten up by five men in Villeurbanne, France. The woman was pregnant; a Jewish school was broken into and vandalized in Sarcelles, France. This was in the past week.

According to the Anti-Defamation League, from September 9, 2000, at the start of the intifada, through November 20, 2001, there were some 330 acts of anti-Semitism just in and around Paris. In addition to literally scores of firebombing of synagogues, just before Rosh Hashanah, 200 Arabs attacked Jews on the Champs Elysees. The pace has only picked up since then:

In December, a French cinema in Paris refused to allow a Hanukah showing of Harry Potter to 800 Jewish children because of French-Palestinian threats (the threats were confirmed by French police who then went on to do nothing, not even giving details). It was one incident in an eventful month when synagogues continued to be firebombed and a Jewish kindergarten was vandalized with anti-Semitic graffiti and set ablaze.

We can understand anti-Semitism among the French people. There is nothing the French love like their traditions and, on the question of hating Jews, they certainly have tradition galore. What, however, can explain the sometimes muted, sometimes defensively outraged reaction of French officials?

Simple. There are approximately 5,000,000 to 6,000,000 Muslims presently living in France and many more arrive daily. There are only about 600,000 Jews still living in France. Moreover, France is the number one European exporter to Iraq, totaling over two billion dollars per year in exports since 2000. To those who are at a loss to explain why French elected officials seem \"helpless\" to stem the tide of anti-Semitism, I say that something smells awfully Vichy around here.

You already know that Israel is at war against a fearsome enemy, which has brought the fight to its streets. Much of the civilized world (well, at least on this side of the Atlantic), finally understands this fact.

What is not being acknowledged, however, is that this is not a war against Israel, or as propagandists and demagogues worldwide would have it, occupiers.

This is a war against each and every individual, Israeli or not, religious or not, Zionist or not, right, left or center, who identifies himself or herself as Jewish. Israel is only the publicized front line and if you are not in Israel, and the fight has not arrived at your front yard, just wait. Or, perhaps, we shouldn't wait. Perhaps history has finally taught us, of all people, that waiting and hoping for succor and sympathy from the nations of the world will lead only to more burned synagogues, pogroms, and, down the road, grim-faced dignitaries mouthing \"never again\" while dedicating yet another memorial museum. We cannot wait inactively and hope to have security or peace for our children or ourselves. We dare not privately rail against irrational, virulent hatred while letting the world believe that we remain disinterested, accepting our lot with equanimity or, worse, resignation. We can and must do more than simply grieve.

So I call on you, whether you are a fellow Jew, a friend, or merely a person with the capacity and desire to distinguish decency from depravity, to do, at least, these three simple things:

First, care enough to stay informed. Don't ever let yourself become deluded into thinking that this is not your fight.

Second, boycott France. Only the Arab countries are more toxically anti-Semitic and, unlike them, France exports more than just oil and hatred. So boycott their wines and their perfumes. Boycott their clothes and their foodstuffs. Boycott their movies. Definitely boycott their shores. If we are resolved we can exert amazing pressure and, whatever else we may know about the French, we most certainly know that they are as a cobweb in a hurricane in the face of well directed pressure.

Third, send this along to your family, your friends, and your coworkers. Think of all of the people of good conscience that you know and let them know that you and the people that you care about need their help.

The number one best selling book in France is \"September 11: The Frightening Fraud,\" which argues that no plane ever hit the Pentagon.

Our only strength is the strength of our community and there can be no community without communication.<\/p>\n","contact":"","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"This is a war against each and every individual, Israeli or not, religious or not, Zionist or not, right, left or center, who identifies himself or herself as Jewish.","numcomment":18,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2003\/11\/95707.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":95710,"heading":"jj","article":""So I call on you, whether you are a fellow Jew, a friend, or merely a person with the capacity and desire to distinguish decency from depravity"\r\n\r\nHating Jews = Depravity\r\nHating Sharon = Decency","author":"The Right (Left) Thing to Do","parent_id":95707,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-11-28 14:20:48","modified":"2003-11-28 14:20:48","fileurl":""},{"id":95723,"heading":"correction","article":"point of fact..\r\nthe oldest form of bigotry\r\nis called SEXISM\r\nariel sharon is a representative of Israel\r\nlike W is representative of the US\r\nNOT AT ALL reflecting the views of the majority\r\nget off your knees humans\r\nWORK for PEACE","author":"antxon","parent_id":95707,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-11-28 16:57:51","modified":"2003-11-28 16:57:51","fileurl":""},{"id":95745,"heading":"Jew Hatred is very common.","article":"Jews hate more people than anyone.","author":"Anti-Zionist","parent_id":95707,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-11-28 19:48:20","modified":"2003-11-28 19:48:20","fileurl":""},{"id":95748,"heading":"Yeah, yeah, year","article":"Once again we are treated to a pro-Likud Shill spinning the usual Bullshit.\r\n\r\nIf you are against Zionists you hate Jews.\r\n\r\nIf you oppose Israeli Murder and Suppression you hate Jews.\r\n\r\nIf you believe that the Palestinian people derserve to be treated as people you hate Jews.\r\n\r\nIf you are opposed to the Illegal Settlements you hate Jews.\r\n\r\nEver notice how all this spin adds up to if you oppose any crime committed by the Israeli Government it is supposed to mean, per the spin artists, that you are a filthy Anti-Semite.\r\n\r\nIf the alleged Anti-Semites committed any of the crimes that Israel routinely commits in the Occupied Territories, such as extra-Judicial Murders, routine inhumanity toward non-Jews, destroying Fields and Orchards, Gestapo Police Tactics, etc...., that they would be tried in Court and never see light from their Prison Cell again.\r\n\r\nIt is not Jews that are hated it is Israeli Government sanctioned War Crimes and the continued acquiescence to evil, and even it's support, by the Israeli People.\r\n\r\nThe Israeli War Criminals then twist this opposition to their crimes as hatred of all Jews. This creates the false impression that all Jews support their crimes. They do not. However, these Spin Tactics of hiding behind their Jewishness rebounds to the detriment of all Jews - even those who oppose the crimes. In short the Israeli Shills are creating the so-called Anti-Semitism they claim to oppose.","author":"Anti-Fog","parent_id":95707,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-11-28 21:28:32","modified":"2003-11-28 21:28:32","fileurl":""},{"id":95757,"heading":"Who's spinning, Anti-Fog?","article":"You are, furiously so.\r\n\r\nThe article is full of refences to obvious Jew-hatred. Not Zionist, not Israeli...JEW-hatred.\r\n\r\nYet you refuse to see it.\r\n\r\nYou need to understand this: there are people who want nothing more than to kill all Jews. Some of them are trying. Others are supporting them. It's becoming more and more common. Anti-Semitism is one of the last acceptable prejudices. Much of it, though, is hidden behind the phrase, "We don't hate Jews...we hate Zionists." Uh huh; sure.\r\n\r\nYou seem to have taken this article a little too personally. Got something to tell us?\r\n\r\nYou bend over backwards saying the article is spin, yet you spin your self at a pretty respectable RPM. \r\n\r\nSure, there are many anti-Zionists who truly do not hate Jews. You may even be one of them.\r\n\r\nBut don't presume to speak for all. \r\n\r\nThere is Jew hatred out there. To pretend otherwise only serves to further it.","author":"nonanarchist2158","parent_id":95707,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-11-29 03:12:02","modified":"2003-11-29 03:12:02","fileurl":""},{"id":95764,"heading":"Rising Tide of Awareness","article":"What you miss is that much of the recent flare-up of "Anti-Semitism" dates from the beginning of the Palestinian Intifada. Despite the best efforts of the Israeli Spin Machine the facts seeping out show a picture that is not conducive to the Israeli Spin Machines continued success. The problem is that they have been successful, to some degree, in globalizing their Crimes to All Jews. So, the narrow minded, psychotic shitheads, who preach Anti-Semitism have been able to use the growing obviousness of Israeli Lies to Paint all Jews with the same broad brush.\r\n\r\nIt has come down to the perception, by those who don't dig deep, that the Palestinians are like that kid in school who kept getting picked on by the Class Asshole, which the Teacher never saw, and when he struck back that happened to be the time the teacher noticed. For years the Palestinians have been on the receiving end of Israeli bullying and criminality and when the pressure to respond built to the point to where they actually did hit back Israel has been masterful at pointing to the Palestinian response to Israeli Agression as unprovoked agression by the Palestinians. The issue is a bit more complex than that superficial analysis would suggest but such seems to be the thinking. However, because Israel has been successful at globalizing the responsibility for their crimes by characterizing Just Criticism as "Anti-Semitism" against all Jews they have successfully made "All Jews" unwilling accessories to their crimes in too many minds. This in turn has provoked, insufficiently in my opinion, an upsurge of violence against Jews who had nothing to do with Israeli Crimes. The problem is compounded by the perception that much of the Financial World and Mainstream Media are dominated by Jews to the exclusion of others and have been used to further Zionist interests. How much truth there is in that perception is beyond the scope of a short post but there is enough there there to give fuel to that fire.\r\n\r\nHow much of the upsurge in "Anti-Semitism" can be attributed to Israeli Spinsters and Apologists is unquantifiable, but the upsurge is recent and does appear to be time coincident with the rise of the importance of the Internet as an alternative source of News and Information. That which would have never been covered by "Mainstream" Controlled Media is now widely available on the Internet. People are thus able to find out more readily what is true in the Israeli arguments and what is not. They are able to see the squalor of the Palestinian Territories and to see that with the Israeli Military repressing them and preventig them from building up their lands that a great injustice is being done. And the Genie cannot be put back in the bottle. I know that there will be attempts. You are one reflection of such, but ultimately the truth is more powerful than the lies. The Truth will out.\r\n\r\nIt is a sad and sick situation.","author":"Roll Tide","parent_id":95707,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-11-29 07:34:16","modified":"2003-11-29 07:34:16","fileurl":""},{"id":95765,"heading":"Definition of anti-Semite.","article":"And "anti-Semite" is someone that Jews don't like.","author":"ADL","parent_id":95707,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-11-29 07:36:58","modified":"2003-11-29 07:36:58","fileurl":""},{"id":95773,"heading":"hasidim","article":"I am told that Hasidic Jews are not Zionists.","author":"more rational","parent_id":95707,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-11-29 09:21:46","modified":"2003-11-29 09:21:46","fileurl":""},{"id":95777,"heading":"Correct. Many Jews are not Zionists.","article":"The Zionists are doing their best to create hatred for Jews by attacking critics of Zionism. Zionism cannot survive unless a threat to Jews exists. Zionists wish to create a threat to Jews in order to demand support for Israel.","author":"Toby","parent_id":95707,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-11-29 10:50:10","modified":"2003-11-29 10:50:10","fileurl":""},{"id":95778,"heading":"Zionism","article":"If I believe what I heard, Zionism at its origins used to be the belief that all children of Isreal had the possibility of celebrating their faith however they want.\r\n\r\nSince the end of the XIXth century, it has taken a new meaning dued mostly to the prejudices done to jews.\r\nOne of the events of the XIXth that started it all was the Dreyfuss affaire (a jewish officer from the french army unfairly accused of spying for the prussians), that mobilised many people (including Emile Zola and his famous "J'accuse" in favor of persecutated jews. The idea that came out of this affair was Zionism as we know it: the rapatriation of jews in Israel with Jerusalem (Zion) as its capital. The holocaust gave a new importance to that docrtine. \r\n\r\nIn the next century, maybe Israelis would have mistreated palestininan so much that a some kind of Palestionism will be born. And all this bullshit will just keep on coming. ","author":"Sergio Leone","parent_id":95707,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-11-29 12:09:56","modified":"2003-11-29 12:09:56","fileurl":""},{"id":95780,"heading":"The subject of the article is not Zionism.","article":"The subject of the article is the very real presence of Jew-hatred.\r\n\r\nThat you are all denying the existence of Jew-hatred, despite very clear and compelling evidence, and instead justifying your own anti-Zionism, is very telling.\r\n\r\nIt's funny, actually. You rabidly jump on every perceived slight of Arabs and Islam as "racism", yet give a free pass to those who say publicly they want to see all Jews dead.\r\n\r\nWhy is that?","author":"nonanarchist0816","parent_id":95707,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-11-29 13:27:57","modified":"2003-11-29 13:27:57","fileurl":""},{"id":95786,"heading":"And all this bullshit will just keep on coming.","article":"as any reader of this thread will see.\r\nThat's why the shrill squawking and endless denial from the shills\r\nthat keep on repeating the same BS. Like nonanarchist (x) with the same tired and threadbare nosense that attempts to point at the truth and\\ reason as 'jew hatred'. Wont wash.","author":"How true","parent_id":95707,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-11-29 16:33:30","modified":"2003-11-29 16:33:30","fileurl":""},{"id":95787,"heading":"Well of course","article":""If you are against Zionists you hate Jews. "\r\n\r\nThis has been validated over and over agin around here.","author":"fresca","parent_id":95707,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-11-29 17:24:07","modified":"2003-11-29 17:24:07","fileurl":""},{"id":95791,"heading":"OneEyedMan","article":"Engaging in hyperbole again, Caducada?\r\n\r\nYou're fuckin' contemptable....","author":"KPC","parent_id":95707,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-11-29 17:50:08","modified":"2003-11-29 17:50:08","fileurl":""},{"id":95795,"heading":"How truly stupid","article":"Let me get this straight.\r\n\r\nAre you really denying the Jew hatred that exists throughout the world?\r\n\r\nThe hatred that leads people to say, "Six million were not enough"?\r\n\r\nThe hatred that leads people to chant "Sieg Heil" and "Jews into the sea"?\r\n\r\nThe hatred that says American Jews who move to the West Bank and Gaza "should be shot dead"?\r\n\r\nTell me this: How is kicking a rabbi in the face and calling him a "dirty Jew" not Jew hatred, but only anti-Zionism?\r\n\r\nTell me this: Are you sure your anti-Zionism is not a masquerade for Jew hate?\r\n\r\nTell me this: Do you think six million was enough?","author":"nonanarchist1322","parent_id":95707,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-11-29 18:27:10","modified":"2003-11-29 18:27:10","fileurl":""},{"id":95802,"heading":"OneEyedMan","article":"Fido, you're like my idiot dog barking at the wind...\r\n\r\n...Caducada wrote this:\r\n\r\n""If you are against Zionists you hate Jews. " \r\n\r\nThis has been validated over and over agin around here."\r\n\r\n\r\nNow, this blanket comment is idiodic...Tell Me: what the FUCK does what you posted have the SLIGHTEST ROMOTE RELATIONSHIP to what Caducada posted...SPEAK DOGGIE!\r\n\r\n...Forget it! You are one fuckin' broke dick doggie....why don't you get back to something useful, like lickin' your ass or something...","author":"KPC","parent_id":95707,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-11-29 20:54:01","modified":"2003-11-29 20:54:01","fileurl":""},{"id":95809,"heading":"there are many anti-zionists","article":"who Overly criticize israels policies, and may at times step over the infamous jewzion-line--not intentionally, i think--__....|and then there's the real jew-haters__--->>>white-boy supremists, islamic-fundamentally-retarded^^~~besides them 2 groups, what others( not counting random indiv. cases) are there??___????","author":"ant","parent_id":95707,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-11-30 00:26:55","modified":"2003-11-30 00:26:55","fileurl":""},{"id":95917,"heading":"Chicken Boy","article":"You idiot. \r\n\r\nI was responding to "How true".\r\n\r\nWassa mater? You don't think six million were enough?\r\n\r\nNow, why don't you respond with some more thoughtless profanity?\r\n\r\nIt's the only thing you're good at.","author":"nonanarchist0841","parent_id":95707,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-12-01 13:49:53","modified":"2003-12-01 13:49:53","fileurl":""}]}