"Anti-Semitism on the Rise in Europe" CBN News Newswatch

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Even though many European governments have condemned the new rise in anti-Semitism, there is a clear perception among many Jews that Europe's terrible history is somehow coming back to life.
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"If you don't think anti-Semitism is rising in Europe, look at the political cartoons.

A Greek cartoon suggests Israelis kill Christians on Easter. An Italian cartoon shows the baby Jesus worried that the Israelis are going to kill him again.

And then there are the cartoons that compare the Jews to the Nazis. It reminds Jews of another period: the 1930s, the time before the Holocaust.

In Europe today, most Jews are at least anxious. Some are scared, and many have already left for Israel or the United States. Because even though many European governments have condemned the new rise in anti-Semitism, there is a clear perception among many Jews that Europe's terrible history is somehow coming back to life.

"Jewish communities around the world are under more pressure now than at any time since 1945," says Prof. Robert Wistrich of Hebrew University in Israel. Wistrich is the son of Polish Jews who fled the Holocaust. "Here we are 60 years after that and what lessons have been learned? Not enough."

Distorted Media Coverage

Throughout Europe, distorted and one-sided news coverage has created an Israel that is aggressive and evil.

"It's a demonization based on a radical detextualization, de-legitimization that's been going on," Melanie Phillips, a British conservative, says. "And if you're the averagely ignorant Brit, watching your TV, listening to your radio, you believe it. That's your world view."

In France, a court is deciding whether a government TV channel, France2, showed faked footage of the supposed death of a Palestinian boy, Mohammed al-Durah, during the second intifada in 2000, to make it look like he was killed by Israeli solders. When the judge ordered France2 to turn over all of its footage of the incident, it also showed the boy moving his arms and peering through his fingers after he was supposed to be dead.

But Muslim rage at the original France2 news story led to countless reprisals against Jews around the world. It was even mentioned by terrorists as a reason for the beheading Daniel Pearl.

DemocracyBroadcastingNews.com says the France2 story "globally defames the Jewish nation, Israel, with a fabricated icon of hypocritical brutality and immorality; and criminalizes Jews and their State to justify pariah-punishment."

The EU says Muslims are responsible for half of all attacks on Jews in Europe. In France, Muslims outnumber Jews 10 to 1. Nidra Poller, an American writer and commentator in Paris, says the government and media are afraid of the Muslims.

"The French are using the Muslims, allowing the Muslims, to express this vicious and violent, murderous Jews hatred, and they get a free ride on their old fashioned anti-Semitism," Poller said. "The whole Lebanon war was shown from the Hezbollah point of view. Israel was the villain. And Hezbollah were the innocents who were suffering. So all the Muslims in France got another dose of Jew hatred."

And when Israel invaded Lebanon in 2006, anti-Semitic violence in Europe surged.

Surpising, But Not Unique

Anti-Semitism is by no means just a European phenomenon. But it is in Europe, the place of the Holocaust, where the return of anti-semitism is so surprising.

As a boy in the Netherlands, Manfred Gerstenfeld hid from the Nazis in an upstairs apartment. He may have never believed it could happen again. But he now believes Europe is re-living the 1930s.

"A senior Dutch politician told me a few months ago, 'Look, the Jews have to understand that in the Netherlands, they have no future,' he said.

In large part because Israel lost the media war in Europe long ago, and the Jews are still paying for it."

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[Annihilate3275]

A Christian television network that is pro-Jews. Jews have done much more to hurt Christianity than help...I wonder who owns this network?

[democast]

@Annihilate3275 Sometimes it's better to be thought a fool than to run your mouth and remove all doubt.

[aigg]

I think it's very sad that it is almost impossible to criticize the actions of the state of Israel, without being called an anti-semit. I think we must be able to separate the actions of the state and government, and the entire Jewish population. I am sure many jews do not agree with the actions of the state of Israel, and would not say that Israel equals jew. I have NOTHING against the jewish people. I do, however, disagree with many of Israel's actions. That does not make me an anti-semit.

[democast]

@aigg Show us where you have commented in criticizing other states' actions- particularly any of the many worse than Israel.

[TheBlackSedan]

I bought an israeli flag from ebay. I put the letters “DID 9/!!” on it and painted dripping blood on it. Question: Is this a hate crime if i duck tape it to my pick up truck?

[Exchiefboy]

@Electricbassguy Well I see there is equivalent number semitic trolls either :D

[ErtyOpas]

@aigg I agree with you. I've known a few Jews who were just regular people like myself. I don't hate Jews, but I do question the motivations and policies of the Israeli government. I would never lump all Jews into a single category, no more than I would lump all Muslim into a single category. You have every right to question Israel and its policies.More power to you.

[BluesHarp60]

@aigg You said it!! Thanks for pointing this out! We cannot condemn an antire nation for the Doings of their Politicians!~

[RayL1983]

Greeks don't like Palestine. Palestinians have Greek and Arab blood. It seems to people that they are being persecuted.

[philyB08]

Is this the way Europe is viewed in America? The terrorists have alies in the media? The Jews run the media, they run the radio, television, books, movies, actors, directors,film agents, producers, film studios is the biggest one. I feel bad for American News, branding us all as racist because of a few hundred people. That is very small statistic.

[goku27son]

LOL!!!! jew coming to the usa. When america collapse they don't know what's coming to them.

[kblackfeather1]

i was called antisemitic when i said that the bankers and the federal reserve are the ones that fucked up the united states.