Europe’s intellectual establishment obsessively preaches and works for Israel’s disappearance.
Giulio Meotti, INN
Most of our European intellectuals believe that Israeli land must be given over to Islamic rule, by force if necessary.
Italy’s most renowned philosopher, Gianni Vattimo, who is also a member of the European Parliament, slammed Israel as a “racist state”, a state which, he said, “should not exist”.
In 2007, Vattimo signed a manifesto calling Israel “Nazi” and saying that in Gaza there are “concentration camps”. Among the signers, the famous poet Edoardo Sanguineti and other Italian cultural personalities.
Europe’s intellectual establishment obsessively preaches and works for Israel’s disappearance. Trond Andresen, a professor in the Department of Engineering Cybernetics at the Norwegian University of Trondheim, just wrote that he would not set foot at the commemoration ceremony for the victims of Kristallnacht. “This annual event is used by Israel’s friends each year to deflect or undermine criticism of Israel”, he claimed.
This plague is destroying the Western intellectual life from Paris to Washington: in academia, in the publishing houses, in the newspapers, in the literary circles, how many writers, professors and journalists today are willing to stand up for Israel’s good name and basic rights?
Most of our European intellectuals believe that Israeli land must be given over to Islamic rule, by force if necessary. The existence of a restored Israel in the land of the Bible, proof that the Jewish people is not annihilated, assimilated and withering away is the living refutation of the all the myths the Western intellectuals are eager to embrace: fascism, communism, secularism, Islamism, Christian leftism, multiculturalism, pacifism.
And not only in Europe. When the black writer Alice Walker, author of “The Color Purple,” refuses to authorize a Hebrew translation of her prize-winning book; when journalist Jakob Augstein, a member of the German left-liberal intelligentsia, claims that “the Netanyahu government keeps the world on a leash”; when “the father of peace studies” Johan Galtung says that there is a connection between the massacre of youths in Norway last summer and the Mossad, these intellectuals are all enhancing the world’s expectations for another Holocaust.
It is the same Galtung who wrote that “Israel was conceived in sin, born in sin and grew up in sin”. For these intellectuals, that “sin” must be washed with blood. Jewish blood.
They write it openly. They don’t hide their worst fantasies anymore.
Cowardice and hatred dominate the Western cultural establishment. The same thing happened during the Second World War. In both situations, academia at large made Jews the canary in the coal mine.
Of Italy’s 1,225 teachers and college professors, only 12 refused to take the oath of allegiance to the Fascist regime. Only a few older men stood by their principles and rejected the conformism of evil. That little group of twelve professors gave up their posts rather than swear allegiance, but they ultimately honored themselves and truth.
Today, there is no fascism nor persecution in the streets, but despite that fact – that makes the situation seemingly better – today you will probably not find even twelve brave academics and writers who will stand up for their principles, for the value of fair play towards Israel.
In that sense, the current hegemonic, democratic and voluntary antisemitism is even worse than that of the ’30s.
The writer, an Italian journalist with Il Foglio, writes a twice-weekly column for Arutz Sheva. He is the author of the book “A New Shoah”, that researched the personal stories of Israel’s terror victims, published by Encounter. His writing has appeared in publications, such as the Wall Street Journal, Frontpage and Commentary. He has just prblished a book about the Vatican and Israel titled “J’Accuse: the Vatican Against Israel” published by Mantua Books.
They all suffer from a severe case of inferiority complex. Many in the Muslim world suffer from the same condition. All together very common.
@ loonwatchexposed:
Really? Micronesia? Who else? Canada? Rumor is P.M. Harper might be resigning. What then? Who else?
You may not agree but the fact that Easav and Yishmoel are gathering against Jerusalem, as prophesied of old should now be evident to all but the willfully blind.
yamit82 Said:
An interesting prophecy. Both the Romans and the Nazis had the eagle on the standards they carried into battle – and they turned the House Of Jacob into a fire – and they have no survivors! For indeed, Hashem had spoken! My son, you see it all came true and the word of G-d was fulfilled to the very letter.
Israel has a legal basis in international law. I understand that the cards would be stacked against Israel politically in any international forum, but continued silence is not gaining Israel any ground. Why would the San Remo Accords and the standing and valid law as written by the League of Nations in 1922 not be a basis for a vocal, vigorous legal offensive by the Israeli government? NOW!!
@ Yidvocate:
Israel has many friends. I don’t agree with the alarmist tone above.
European Union, Trade in goods with Israel
http://ec.europa.eu/trade/policy/countries-and-regions/countries/israel/
Every one hears but no one listens. The resurrected state of the Jews is illegitimate in so far as this state was by design meant to be a light unto the nations. A priestly chosen nation that dwells alone and shines the light of Torah to the rest of the world. Is Israel that state? Was it ever?
Well yes at one time it was but then it fell from grace and the destruction and dispersion followed. Not once but twice. Now after 2,000 years G-d has given us another chance and what do we do? We strive to be a nation like all the other western nations and for all the good we do, all we get is disdain and demonization.
Why is anyone surprised???
This is projection. It is these intellectuals who are nazis.
History repeats itself regarding Europe and the Jews. Europeans always have been and remain morally degenerate, evil Jew-haters.
We can however kvell over the fact that European civilization is dying while Israel thrives.
The prevalence of Nazi sentiment among Europe’s educated does not come as a surprise.
And Israel’s leftist professors, who whined, stamped their little feet and soiled their pants for the dubious privilege of working with Europe’s best and brightest will learn soon enough they’re still seen as “dirty Jews.”
Jewishness is not a trait that can be washed off to be in the good graces of Edom.
@ yamit82:
It is true that what is elevated can fall.
But it does not follow that what isn’t elevated ‘cannot.’
Anybody can fall, from where he IS to somewhere. . . . lower.
Moreover, the very need to defend oneself is EVIDENCE of a fallen world.
OMO.
dweller Said:
I don’t disagree with your conclusions only your theological cause and effect premise.
The world was never elevated so it can’t fall.
Japan Contaminated
Watching Fukushima
Fukushima Daiichi: a Never-Ending Story of Pain or Outrage?
From Hannah Spector,PhD, Penn State concerning the ongoing Fukushima emergency:
Hannah Spector
If you live in California and care about your health and life, I might suggest you consider moving to the middle of the country and not purchase any edibles from the Pacific Ocean and pacific coast.
Guess that makes the Almighty a sinner. No doubt, He’ll be properly contrite.
Question is, whom does He get to offer His confession to?
The infant Jewish state — arguably the only country in modern history that was NOT “born in sin” — was forcibly baptized in fire, having been left “ain bray-rah”: with no alternative but to defend her lawful existence by the only means ever to have ultimately secured such a right in this fallen world for as long as there have been states: force of arms & a river of blood.
“It is hard to think,” notes the British military historian, Michael Howard, “of any nation-state… that came into existence before the middle of the twentieth century, which was not created and had its boundaries defined, by wars, by internal violence, or by a combination of the two.”
[Michael Howard, Lessons of History (Oxford Univ. Press, 1991), pp. 39-40]
The late Congressman Henry Hyde [R-IL] defined an intellectual as
— somebody whose intellect has outstripped his intelligence.