Europe: Anti-Israel Protests Descend into Anti-Semitism
by Soeren Kern • May 20, 2021 at 5:00 am
The current crisis of anti-Semitism is a testament to the failure of European multiculturalism, which is making Jewish life in Europe increasingly unviable.
"Open, disgusting hatred of Jews and Israel, but not only: It was also hatred of our free, tolerant democracy." — Peter Wilke, correspondent, Bild.
"It is astonishing that, only 76 years after the Shoah, many people fail to understand that the Jewish state cannot accept a threat to its existence without being able to defend itself. The anti-Semitic attacks of the past few days have once again made it clear how fragile Jewish life is in Germany." — Andrei Kovacs, managing director, "321-2021: 1700 Years of Jewish Life in Germany."
"Angela Merkel's refugee policy, which no longer bothers to identify true war refugees, has imported hundreds of thousands of times an ideology that focuses on the Jew as an eternal enemy... Too many streets were in the hands of people at the weekend who want a different Germany, a country without Jews." — Julian Reichelt, editor-in-chief, Bild.
"A large part of this mob consists of people who came here as refugees and brought their hatred of Jews with them and continued to expand it here." — Michal Kornblum, German commentator.
"German politicians have not understood that immigration from Iraq and Syria, from the Arab countries, also brings more anti-Semitism to Germany. Anyone who says that is immediately branded as right wing and there is no fair discussion or debate about it." — German-Egyptian political scientist and author Hamed Abdel-Samad, Die Welt.
"In the end, not even schools can talk about anti-Semitism or the Middle East conflict. Or about Erdogan or about Islamism. Even at universities, Muslim students refuse to speak about such topics. Universities should be a safe haven for opinions. But for many Muslim students, universities are now safe spaces from opinions and criticism, even though that is where we have to start." — German-Egyptian political scientist and author Hamed Abdel-Samad, Die Welt.
"This isn't about Gaza. We've never seen such hate after any Western action in Syria or Afghanistan. No British crowds marching through malls to protest airstrikes in Iraq. This is bigotry in its most ugly, rawest form. Gaza is an excuse to find a socially acceptable way to publicly express Jew-hatred while pretending that your hate is righteous.... Arab persecution of Palestinians is ignored by the anti-Israel crowd as well." — Elder of Zion blog.
Pro-Palestinian demonstrations in cities across Europe have descended into unrestrained orgies of anti-Semitism after protesters opposed to Israeli military action in the Gaza Strip openly called for the destruction of Israel and death to Jews.
The protesters, numbering in the tens-to-the-hundreds of thousands, include a hodgepodge of anarchists, hard-left anti-Israel activists and immigrants from the Middle East and North Africa. Many demonstrators — carrying flags of Muslim countries, including Algeria, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Tunisia, Turkey and Syria, as well as the green flag of the Islamist terrorist group Hamas and the black flag of global Jihad — have shouted Islamist chants such as 'Allahu Akhbar' ('Allah is the Greatest'), and have openly called for Jews to be murdered or raped.
