The old European dormant anti-Jewish mood has been rejuvenated by the diabolical poison known as anti-Zionism.
“More than a quarter of Europeans polled believe Jews have too much influence in business and finance. Nearly one in four said Jews have too much influence in conflict and wars across the world”.
Those are among the key findings of a survey carried out for CNN. In another poll, 43 percent of Dutch Jews take active steps to hide their Jewish identity, such as wearing a hat over their kippah or hiding Star of David pendants. Anti-Semitism is destroying Europe from within. About 180 million Europeans hate the Jews, again.
The pattern is very clear: Israel is the “aggressor”, Israel is the state of the Jews, hence the Jews are the aggressors. This new European anti-Semitism, in fact, has been fueled by the global hate for Israel and the rise of radical Islam. The old European dormant anti-Jewish mood has been rejuvenated by the diabolical poison known as anti-Zionism.
And the tragic sense of abandonment that is gripping the Jews of Europe is powered by an anguish more subtle but no less devastating: the perception of a resigned European acquiescence, even institutionally, to the new anti-Semitism disguised as anti-Zionism. Adolf Hitler would certainly have been proud of all the motions that condemn Zionism as “racist”, a falsification of history since, in actuality, Zionism was born as a reaction to racism.
A few days ago, in fact, all the European countries voted against Israel at the United Nations in eight successive resolutions. Anti-Zionism is the mask behind which anti-Semites are covered after Hitler. The UN denies the Jewish right – recognized to other peoples – to have a national state, therefore it is racist and anti-Semitic, but Europe now considers it perfectly reasonable to vote along the anti-Israel party.
The “Parliament of the World”, now under the hegemony of an alliance between dictatorships and Islamic and Third World states, is maneuvered against the Jewish people.
Until not long ago, knowing that in the Western cities, with the acquiescent silence of the European Union, the Protocols of the Elders of Zion would circulate undisturbed, that Jewish pupils with a kippah should have to be escorted at schools, that Holocaust survivors would be burned to death in their own beds, would have provoked horror and indignation. Today we limit ourselves to a banal shrug.
In many universities in the middle of Europe there is now silent discrimination against Israeli scholars who are asked to be thrown out of classrooms and laboratories. The European scientific community does not feel offended by this new form of anti-Jewish ostracism.
Not anti-Israeli, but anti-Jewish hate.
I cannot forget that pro-Palestinian rally in Rome, in which demonstrators disguised as suicide terrorists marched toward the Jewish quarter. It was 2002. Sixteen years later, Europe is still searching for a possible explanation for all this anti-Semitism. It is like that girl discovering that she is expecting a baby in her eighth month.
This from 11 28 18 Jerusalem Post. Proves Meotti’s point
Main façade of Leinster House where the Irish Senate meets
Main façade of Leinster House where the Irish Senate meets. (photo credit: COURTESY OF JEAN HOUSEN)
The Irish Senate is set to hold a preliminary vote Wednesday night on a private members bill to criminalize business transactions with Israeli entities and citizens in east Jerusalem and Area C of the West Bank.
It’s the second vote on the private members bill submitted by Senator Frances Black in opposition to Ireland minority government.
It imposes a fine of up to 250,000 euros or five years in jail for those found guilty of such activity.
The bill, which is still in its infancy, cannot become law until it passes both the Irish Senate (Seanad Éireann) and its House (Dáil Éireann) and received the signature of the Irish President.
The bill “Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill,” does not mention Israel by name but all discussing of the text focused on Israel and the Palestinian territories and the explanation of the bill Black’s Senate website specially mentions the West Bank.
“The legislation has been prepared with the support of Trócaire, Christian-Aid and the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU), and applies to settlements in occupied territories where there is clear international legal consensus that they violate international law,” Black’s office said.
“The clearest current example is the Israeli occupation and expansion of settlements in the Palestinian ‘West Bank’, which have been repeatedly condemned as illegal by the UN, EU, the International Court of Justice and the Irish Government,” it added.
Black who has been very open about her pro-Palestinian views has said, “This is a chance for Ireland to stand up for the rights of vulnerable people – it is about respecting international law and refusing to support illegal activity and human suffering.”
Ireland Israel Alliance plans to hold a demonstration in Dublin on Wednesday, calling for the Irish government to dump the “Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill.”
It’s director Jackie Goodall warned that the bill was a breach of both European Union law and and also contrary to numerous United States trade law, thereby “forcing American businesses to choose between dealing with Israel or dealing with Ireland.”
The vote comes as the BDS battle has heated up in advance of the expected publication in the coming months of the United Nations Human Rights Council publication of a black list of companies doing business with Israeli entities and individuals in the Golan Heights, east Jerusalem and Area C of the West Bank.
The vacation rental web site became symbolic of the battle when it announced earlier this month that it planned to drop its vacation rental listings in West Bank settlements.