Antisemitism, Multiculturalism & Ethnic Identity Conference - Opening Session

Chair: Prof: Doron Mendels
Greetings: Prof. Steven Kaplan (Dear of the Faculty of Humanities)
Keynote Address: Prof, Robert Wistrich (Director, The Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism - SICSA)

Antisemitism and Multiculturalism The Uneasy Connection

June 12 2006

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[Kurtlane]

The modern situation in America is the same as in Europe, except it's not nearly as intense. Relentless march of Islamification is here too, with the same consequences for Jews. Everything Robert Wistrich says about modern Europe applies to modern (past 9/11) America. Only not yet to the same extent.

[Kurtlane]

Brilliant speech, except for the ending where he talks about America.

Now, in retrospect, the 1960s-1990s look like golden age in history of American Jews, and the trouble with Leonard Jeffries, Louis Farrakhan etc. look like nothing.

Even within that golden period, there is no reason at all to focus on black Jew-hatred (antisemitism) while ignoring white one.

(cont.)

[Kurtlane]

Don't forget what was done to Leo Frank.

[Kurtlane]

That was in 2001. It's been getting worse even since. Jew-hatred comes form whites (like the guy who stalked me), blacks (like the guy who spat on me), and Arabs too (they both spat and pushed me).

I told about this to some decent Muslims I know, and they were horrified. Nothing like that happened to them.

The stereotype of America being free from antisemitism is a gross exaggeration. It exists, and though not as virulent as in Europe, it's virulent enough.

(cont.)

[Kurtlane]

There have been all sorts of things coming from that campus, including stones thrown at Jews, assaults on Jews, Jews being told by campus police that it's their fault because they are Jews.

From personal experience. Someone scratched a swastika on my window. And when I wore a kippa (a Jewish scull cap) on campus for only 5 days, I was spat on by one guy and and stocked by another. And when I took part in a pro-Israel rally, I was spat on and physically pushed.

(cont.)

[Kurtlane]

Visible discrimination against Jews in America is reapearing with a vengeance.

In Orange County, California, where I live, Jews are the group most targeted for hate crimes. Have been sinse hate crimes stats have been collected.

Next door to me is UC Irvine, which is famous for its yearly anti-Israel (and Jew-hating) rallies.

(cont.)

[Kurtlane]

Egyptian paper al-Ahram wrote in late 1950s: "Former German officers are showing interest in Saudi Arabia. Wahabbites looking at them as a new potential direction in Islam. SS officers in this country are creating military centers where young Wahabbites are getting their training."

Saudi Arabia is where most of 9/11 terrorists came from. This is not a coincidence.

The ideas of complete extermination of Jews were not part of Islam. They have become part of it exactly due to Nazi influence.

[Kurtlane]

He financed radical lawyer Jacques Verges when he defended Carlos the Jackal (also of PFLP).

Many of these people also worked as freelance journalists, writing tons of articles for Arab papers. Your guess about the content to these articles is right.

(cont.)

[Kurtlane]

He is believed to be the founder of Lugano-based al Taqwa Bank, major funding conduit for al Qaeda and Hamas. In the late 60s Genoud began selling weapons to various Palestinian groups. His closest relations were with Habash's Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Among other terrorist opertations, he financed hijacking by German Revolutionary Cells and PFLP of Air France to Entebbe, Uganda in 1976.

(cont.)

[Kurtlane]

He was also the principal financial manager of the hidden Swiss assets of the Third Reich after WWII, setting in motion networks that later became known as ODESSA, which sponsored evacuation of key Nazi leaders into Morocco, Spain and Latin America. He bankrolled Ayatollah Khomeini's exile in France. In 1958 he founded the Arab Commercial Bank, the chief repository for the Algerian National Liberation Front.

(cont.)