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aribSnipped from Arutz-7, an Israeli news service...
EUROPEAN ANTI-SEMITISM TRIGGERS EMERGENCY MEETING
German police have instructed Jewish residents in Berlin not to appear in
public with clothes that identify them as Jewish, in order to avoid being
attacked. Officials there are on a "maximum security" alert for possible
attacks against Jewish targets throughout the country. "The threat is
getting closer," acknowledges Paul Spiegel, president of Germany's Central
Jewish Council. He told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung website
(Faz.com) that he and his staff have received many anti-Semitic threats in
the mail and email.
The World Jewish Congress convened in Brussels this morning for a two-day
emergency meeting in light of the increasing European anti-Semitism. In
attendance are 100 Jewish leaders from 25 countries. "There is nervousness
and even fear among the Jews in many countries," WJC Sec.-Gen. Avi Becker
told Arutz-7 today, "and some Holocaust survivors say they feel that
they're being taken back to the 1930's." He noted that European Jewry,
"which has not been known for its public activism, has now begun to wake up
and rally publicly against this phenomenon. In the 24 hours that we have
been here in Brussels, some of our members were victims of anti-Semitism,
and a synagogue was even shot at."
Regarding the European media's coverage of Israel, Becker dismissed it with
one word: "Terrible. They are totally one-sided and do not give the full
story. There even seems to be a cynical attitude towards the anti-Semitism
here, as if it were just another part of the Israeli-Arab conflict in the
Middle East. This is a terrible comparison, of course, as Jews don't place
bombs in mosques and don't attack Moslems in the streets... We also want
it to be known that this is a problem of the governments and the media,
which have created an atmosphere so hostile to Israel that leads to what we
are now seeing."
Right, just don't identify yourself as Jewish, blend in, become part of society as a whole, and everything will be okay...
Most of the German Jews actively sought out in WWII weren't the openly practicing Hasidic Jews, they were the assimilated nonobservant ones.
Antisemitic Germans, who'da thunk...
EUROPEAN ANTI-SEMITISM TRIGGERS EMERGENCY MEETING
German police have instructed Jewish residents in Berlin not to appear in
public with clothes that identify them as Jewish, in order to avoid being
attacked. Officials there are on a "maximum security" alert for possible
attacks against Jewish targets throughout the country. "The threat is
getting closer," acknowledges Paul Spiegel, president of Germany's Central
Jewish Council. He told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung website
(Faz.com) that he and his staff have received many anti-Semitic threats in
the mail and email.
The World Jewish Congress convened in Brussels this morning for a two-day
emergency meeting in light of the increasing European anti-Semitism. In
attendance are 100 Jewish leaders from 25 countries. "There is nervousness
and even fear among the Jews in many countries," WJC Sec.-Gen. Avi Becker
told Arutz-7 today, "and some Holocaust survivors say they feel that
they're being taken back to the 1930's." He noted that European Jewry,
"which has not been known for its public activism, has now begun to wake up
and rally publicly against this phenomenon. In the 24 hours that we have
been here in Brussels, some of our members were victims of anti-Semitism,
and a synagogue was even shot at."
Regarding the European media's coverage of Israel, Becker dismissed it with
one word: "Terrible. They are totally one-sided and do not give the full
story. There even seems to be a cynical attitude towards the anti-Semitism
here, as if it were just another part of the Israeli-Arab conflict in the
Middle East. This is a terrible comparison, of course, as Jews don't place
bombs in mosques and don't attack Moslems in the streets... We also want
it to be known that this is a problem of the governments and the media,
which have created an atmosphere so hostile to Israel that leads to what we
are now seeing."
Right, just don't identify yourself as Jewish, blend in, become part of society as a whole, and everything will be okay...
Most of the German Jews actively sought out in WWII weren't the openly practicing Hasidic Jews, they were the assimilated nonobservant ones.
Antisemitic Germans, who'da thunk...